analogue users take another hit prem+

[Chrysalis]

Seems starting from next season ntl are withdrawing premiership plus from the analogue channel line up. Reason's unknown.

[quadplay]

Reason is to get people to change to digital. Premiership Plus is (I believe) loss-making for ntl - I'm willing to be corrected, but I think P+ is produced by Sky, and I doubt Sky give it to ntl for the price ntl sell it to customers. Moving it to digital-only will hopefully persuade people to upgrade, and losing one analogue channel allows around 8 new digital channels to start.

** DISCLAIMER - Yes, I know that's all well and good if you can get digital in your area **

[Chrysalis]

jimbo what about those areas that have no digital and only analogue?

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never mind read your disclaimer, ntl should be sued for this in 5 years analogue areas will have barely a dozen channels on the family pack and ntl will still be refusing to upgrade them.

[bob_builder]

I thought that this season was the last season that NTL had the rights to produce Premiership+ and that from next season Sky had the rights and would be producing it. It will no doubt go up to Sky's prices as well!

[Chrysalis]

I cant speak for others but the only reason I am still with ntl is because my landlord made it clear to me he prefers me to use ntl as the sockets were already installed. This is the only reason, even if I was paying more I would be off to sky/bt like a shot if I could.

[Defiant]

Originally Posted by jimbo

** DISCLAIMER - Yes, I know that's all well and good if you can get digital in your area **

Haha I'd still prefer analogue. Why well its cheaper and more channels for money. The key here is Value for money. Something the NTL Digital service doe's not offer. £19 for what a couple of channels that are not on FREEview er I think NOT

[andrew_wallasey]

Originally Posted by Chrysalis

I cant speak for others but the only reason I am still with ntl is because my landlord made it clear to me he prefers me to use ntl as the sockets were already installed. This is the only reason, even if I was paying more I would be off to sky/bt like a shot if I could.

I don't know where you get off on BT being so much better than NTL. I had more problems with a single wire off BT than ive had getting TV, Broadband and Telephone off NTL.

[russellelly]

Originally Posted by Defiant

Haha I'd still prefer analogue. Why well its cheaper and more channels for money. The key here is Value for money. Something the NTL Digital service doe's not offer. £19 for what a couple of channels that are not on FREEview er I think NOT

That's true.

I wonder if Setanta will continue broadcasting as well as PPV events (such as Wrestling) which used the same channel as P+, otherwise it will be empty a LOT.

[Chrysalis]

well BT is better because with them I have the choice, from next year the only way I can watch premiership plus is going somewhere that has sky. I will add I don't care about the extra £5 for digital base pack there is a lot of extra channels and I would have sky sports xtra with permiership plus, very nice.