Quote:
|
Originally Posted by gooner4life
NTL are apparantly going for a 1 off fee for the STB (which you will still rent) but no extra subscription fee.
|
That would be ideal but I think the Telewest charging structure is more likely.
---------- Post added at 17:34 ---------- Previous post was at 17:29 ----------
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by quadplay
How do you know? Are you privy to this information? If so, please share it with the rest of us!
And who did you ask in ntl about analogue switchoff?
---------- Post added at 18:33 ---------- Previous post was at 18:32 ----------
No, the broadcasters specify when the 'red dot' appears. So it's not ntl's problem.
|
This PRESS RED problem only started when the new software was rolled out last last year. With Freeview and Sky you can turn the PRESS RED off but on ntl you cannot. The Radio Times said at the start of this year that ntl was looking at a way to correct this problem, as people find this PRESS RED intrusion to be unacceptable. Sky seems to have found a way to remove it and Freeview also has as on my Freeveiw box PRESS RED never appears, but more than six months after the new ntl software appeared, which is then the problem, began, the problem remains the same and BBC TV is unwatchable on ntl. Thank goodness I have my Freeview box but Freeview doesn't carry BBC Parliament and I like watching the reruns of general Election results programmes and other archive stuff, which I am now no longer able to do due to the PRESS RED problem which ntl seems not to be fixing.
As for the ending of analogue on ntl, nothing has been said in public about switching off analogue TV and more than a quarter of ntl TV subscribers still have analogue. Only Telewest ahs amde a public commitment to ending analogue and I would imagine that it will sue the freed space for high definition services and I would guess that the reaosn ntl ahs not mentioned HDTV is becuase it ahsn;t the room due to analogue services till being taken by 25% of its TV customers.