Thread: Free to air on analogue
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Old 21-04-2005, 20:17   #11
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Re: Free to air on analogue
I think a distinction has to be made here between terrestrial analogue(i.e. from an aerial) and cable analogue(from a stb)

Yes the Government and OFCOM do intend to turn the terrestrial analogue service of somtime in the next 4-8 years, however surley it is up to cable operators wheather they choose to have an analogue service or not.

On the issue of channels, I can say that the appearance of any extra terrestrial channels just isn't technically possible, there just isn't any space in the TV broadcast band, videos were booted of their traditional home of UHF ch37 to make way for channel 5(and there still aren't many relay carrying the signal).

What is carried on cable analogue is obviously down to licensing regulation as well as bandwidth available.
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