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Originally Posted by limi
1 enhanced better tv signal (i dont see how a digital cable tv signal is better, its sent using the same optical cable light)
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Digital TV is less suceptable to interference (it either works or it does not) so you do not get fuzzy pictures like you do on analogue.
Transmitting TV is by definition lossy (i.e. the signal received is not as good as the one sent). For analogue TV this means that the picture slowly get worse the further away you are from the source. Digital lets you recover the original picture exactly as it was sent by use of error correction algorithms until you get far enough away that you cannot receive anything.
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Originally Posted by limi
2 more chanels ( you can only watch one at a time, the good programmes being on mostly at the same time frame. plus i assume they mean they would have the ability to sell me more channels and I would'nt get anything good / extra thats free worth watching. As i said i hardly watch tv anyway and use the cheapest basic package)
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Digital has all the Freeview channels plus any more you want to pay for. There are a lot of channels that are simply not available on analogue, whether you would want to watch them is another matter!
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Originally Posted by limi
3 I was told my cost would need to increase slightly for the benifits, when i objected to this and said i was'nt interested in paying more for what i already have, I then get told that i may be able to save using a different package! (see what i mean about trying to agresivly disadvantage me!).
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It really depends on what package you are currently on. If you have the basic analogue then the basic digital is probably about the same price (£5.50) per month. If you have the full analogue package then you could well find that an equivalent digital package is cheaper or more expensive.
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Originally Posted by limi
4 The goverment is forcing the change to digital so i will have to change, (I would have thought that would only apply to air bourn signals)
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As you say the government analogue switch-off would probably have nothing to do with cable. However, it has been stated that NTL will probably switch-off analogue before the government do (in the next year or two) because they can then use the freed-up bandwidth to improve broadband or add more digital channels and make more money out of it than they ever could out of analogue. I would be very suprised if NTL still have an analogue service by 2012.