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I know some people in a digital area who are totally opposed to switching to digital purely because it costs a couple of pounds extra per month.

Surely this is just plain stingyness at its worst as the existing digital service is very cheap at the low end (only about £20 per month!) which isn't much more than the basic analogue package as far as I know.

I certainly couldn't cope without an EPG or interactive service now after four years of digital (not all of them interactive though!) but there are still a number of pretty big problems such as the frequent crashes, blackouts, interactive hangups and so on.

I feel sorry for NTL users who can't switch over to a digital service as my ideas would leave them with a blank screen (apart from analougue of course!) but I would still like NTL to switch over all customers in digital areas to the digital service as a precursor to a total shutdown of analogue.

Only a portion of the saved bandwith would bring the important missing channels from Sky to NTL (FX,VH2,TWC and possibly up to ten more) and the rest could be used to expand the EPG system and improve the bandwith on the major channels.

I think NTL should offer a higher spec STB for users on high level packages with further features such as a PVR hard disk and possibly a more customisable front end.

Basic (ie cheaper) technology could be used to lure miserly ex-analogue customers out of the woodwork as many of them are either unwilling or unable to use digital features as many of them seem to be older customers who don't seem to understand why digital is a little more expensive.

Sky didn't care about losing a few (mainly low level) customers by going digital only so why should NTL?

Weeto