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Okonski · 07-10-2005, 15:04

No - you misunderstood. It was nonsensical that they were misconstruing the ending of analogue (on NTL) as a government edict, when it was nothing of the sort. The bandwidth used by the 30 or so available analogue TV channels (of which, only 7 are 'free') is far greater than the 22 FM audio channels. Which begs the question, if there was such a squeeze on bandwidth, then why several years after the removal of Music Choice's 8 music feeds, the carrier is still active and encoding stereo silence, when clearly is should have been removed entirely.

As for HDTV, I'm all for it - but bandwith here is an almost infinite resource. The NTL's fibre network already has the capacity, the only logjam would be in the local loop, and STB's could be made to reconstruct an HDTV signal in much the same way as BB does today... on an unused part of the available spectrum. Sky don't have this resource, and they have to pay (dearly) for this for each Astra transponder. NTL can simply, take it in by fibre skipping the hop into space.

If NTL decide to end FM hook-up, then fine I'll be sorry to see it go - but not this ongoing 'death by misinformation' policy they've currently bombarded me with.

07-10-2005, 15:04	#35
Okonski Inactive Join Date: Feb 2005 Services: VM BB & TiVo Posts: 130	Re: FM Hook-up No - you misunderstood. It was nonsensical that they were misconstruing the ending of analogue (on NTL) as a government edict, when it was nothing of the sort. The bandwidth used by the 30 or so available analogue TV channels (of which, only 7 are 'free') is far greater than the 22 FM audio channels. Which begs the question, if there was such a squeeze on bandwidth, then why several years after the removal of Music Choice's 8 music feeds, the carrier is still active and encoding stereo silence, when clearly is should have been removed entirely. As for HDTV, I'm all for it - but bandwith here is an almost infinite resource. The NTL's fibre network already has the capacity, the only logjam would be in the local loop, and STB's could be made to reconstruct an HDTV signal in much the same way as BB does today... on an unused part of the available spectrum. Sky don't have this resource, and they have to pay (dearly) for this for each Astra transponder. NTL can simply, take it in by fibre skipping the hop into space. If NTL decide to end FM hook-up, then fine I'll be sorry to see it go - but not this ongoing 'death by misinformation' policy they've currently bombarded me with.