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Originally Posted by Okonski
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.
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Fair enough!
In fact, I think that NTL (and Telewest) will turn-off analogue before the government does, in any case - Telewest have said they want to stop analogue broadcasts by the end of 2006.
They can only make use of the FM and UHF bandwidth if they completely remove all channels as a single digital mux would take up a lot more space than one analogue channel but be able to carry a lot more digital channels.