[Merged] ITV3.

[scrotnig]

Originally Posted by ianathuth

You don't get the choice if you live in a NTL analogue only area, you just keep getting less and less for your money. As they lose channels on analogue they should reduce the price for it.

In analogue-only areas I'd agree with you 100%.

Originally Posted by Sam B

...ITV have asked us to advise the following:
Plus has become ITV3. ITV3 will show your favourite Plus programming as well as Hollywood Movies and great shows from the US...

After 8 years of charging customers to view "Plus", they are now saying that the same programs will be shown on ITV3 for free!

It seems like ITV must have money to burn at the moment, considering they have just paid Sky £10mill ion and will now be showing programmes for free, which they previously charged for.

I'll believe it when I see it!

[garyparson]

Originally Posted by JediMaster

I am on NTL Analouge TV

I've got electricity

[Neil]

Originally Posted by Web-Junkie

And you think that's funny?

I have lost a channel that will not be replaced with ITV3, my bill will still be the same but I am now getting LESS for my money! My mother takes comfort in watching TV as my father died last year and it gives her something to do and watch in the evening and Plus was her favourite channel. I don't see anything funny in belittling Anaolgue customers because we are getting yet another raw deal!!

No offence meant (hence the )

I don't think anyone is trying to 'belittle' you at all.
ITV have stopped broadcasting a channel, nothing more sinister than that....

Like I said, no offence meant.

[Web-Junkie]

Originally Posted by Neil

No offence meant (hence the )

I don't think anyone is trying to 'belittle' you at all.
ITV have stopped broadcasting a channel, nothing more sinister than that....

Like I said, no offence meant.

Sorry as well Neil, I just got a little upset as you can imagine as now I'm in an awkward position as my mother doesn't understand why she can't watch Plus anymore unless we go digital and why she's still paying for a degraded service

I feel NTL ought to just drop the analogue service altogether and offer their users a decent upgrade to a digital package in compensation for the ever decreasing number of analogue channels.

I think a call to NTL is in order just to see what's what!

[garyparson]

Can anyone enlighten me as to why people who have the option of digital are still on analogue? I'm guessing it's nothing to do with cost as you wouldn't have cable in the first place.

[Neil]

Originally Posted by garyparson

Can anyone enlighten me as to why people who have the option of digital are still on analogue? I'm guessing it's nothing to do with cost as you wouldn't have cable in the first place.

Originally Posted by Web-Junkie

We have 2 Analogue STB's as we can't afford 2 Digital boxes, that's why we still have Analogue

It looks like cost is may be the issue (in WJ's case anyway)

Web-Junkie-perhaps the answer is for you to ditch the 2 analogue boxes, & just have one digital box?

[poolking]

If ITV3 is supposed to be broadcasting 24hrs a day then why is at least 6 hours devoted to teleshopping and a text service? Doesn't count as 24hrs to me.

[russellelly]

Originally Posted by garyparson

Can anyone enlighten me as to why people who have the option of digital are still on analogue? I'm guessing it's nothing to do with cost as you wouldn't have cable in the first place.

Analogue base pack = £3.50/month. Digital Base pack = £10/month. Need I say more? The day ntl's digital base pack is available at £3.50/month I'll be on the phone to them.

Anyway Sam B's post sounded promising for us analogue customers. I can appreciate that ntl have been thrust into a difficult situation, but I can't see any reason why both ITV and ntl wouldn't want to simply replace Plus with ITV3. I know Granada Plus used to timeshare woth Men+Motors, on analogue, not sure if this is still the case (don't sub to the appropriate pack), but even if it is then NTL could fill up the daytime space with ITV3, or another channel if ITV are unwilling to broadcast on analogue (ABC1 broadcasts daytime only )

[1701-e]

But you must admit for £3.50 per month you still get a good selection of channels. It looks as if the channel owners want to pull out of analogue.

Perhaps NTL could freeze the price for a year instead!

(Watch out for those flying pigs....)

[scrotnig]

Originally Posted by Neil

It looks like cost is may be the issue (in WJ's case anyway)

Web-Junkie-perhaps the answer is for you to ditch the 2 analogue boxes, & just have one digital box?

The point being though, if you can't/won't pay for the superior service, don't complain about the fact that the one you have is inferior.

[Neil]

Originally Posted by Mark B

The point being though, if you can't/won't pay for the superior service, don't complain about the fact that the one you have is inferior.

Errr-I wasn't....

Originally Posted by 1701-e

It was promoted as available on digital cable & Freeview. No mention of analogue.

No mention of Sky either, so it could well appear on Analogue shortly. Whether or not it does appears to be out of NTL's control. If it doesn't, I would hazard a guess that a lot of analogue customers will switch to Freeview - good for the planned analogue switch-off, but perhaps not so good for NTL.

Originally Posted by Neil

Errr-I wasn't....

I think the commnt was addressed to web_junkie, and was a little unfair. The complaint was not that the analogue service was inferior, but that having subscribed, largely to view Plus, the plug had been pulled (even if not by NTL) with no notice and no reduction in charge. A legitimate gripe, I think.

[scrotnig]

Originally Posted by Neil

Errr-I wasn't....

No, I didn't mean you...I meant whoever was. I should have said 'one cannot complain' but that sounds a bit posh.