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Originally Posted by musicbravo
This is not a criticism, i'm just interested to know. I know analogue hogs bandwidth, but just how short of space are VM? Are they really that bandwidth constrained? and will this stop them getting HD channels up to say a dozen by analogue switch off in April
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About 6 months ago, most areas still had about 30 analogue channels. Now, according to this poster on DS, its down to around 25 channels now (at least in his area) as well as a barker and some audio channels which take up very little space anyway.
So going by that, yes they are still capacity constrained for now.
Six months ago, there was 75 slots available divided up between:
30 analogue tv
27 digital tv
6 VOD and interactive apps
the rest broadband
1 slot will carry 2 HD channels using MPEG2, which is what VM use.
So that should give an indication as to the state of play now.