Analogue Cable Switch Off Starts
23-04-2009, 19:59
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Re: Analogue Cable Switch Off Starts
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Now i wonder who has done that 
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23-04-2009, 20:52
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Re: Analogue Cable Switch Off Starts
With the analogue switch off, does this means that we can get HD channels?
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23-04-2009, 20:56
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Re: Analogue Cable Switch Off Starts
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Originally Posted by BenMcr
On the 1st July;
Leeds - (Harrowgate, Leeds, York)
Huddersfield (Huddersfield and Dewsbury)
All customers in these areas can get Digital Cable
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How many analogue areas are left, it seems a devilishly slow process. Also will the final switch off give VM much more bandwidth required for broadcasting linear HD channels 
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With the analogue switch off, does this means that we can get HD channels?
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Wow Arthur you beat me to post the question by 1 minutes freaky timing 
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24-04-2009, 07:56
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Re: Analogue Cable Switch Off Starts
The answer to bandwidth is 'Yes'. The answer to whether this will happen will be down to the contract negotiators from the media companies and VM.
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24-04-2009, 10:14
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Re: Analogue Cable Switch Off Starts
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With the analogue switch off, does this means that we can get HD channels?
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Probably at an additional fee of course...
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24-04-2009, 17:41
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Re: Analogue Cable Switch Off Starts
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Now i wonder who has done that |
i once knew a bloke called Bill C who was a sales rep for NYNEX (i know!!) who did exactly the same in warrington when the phones went live in 94  i was an installer then and the first big estate he sold to were all back to fronters!!! we had to run the cable through all the kitchen cupboards to get to the living room..what a git he was!!
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08-07-2009, 17:31
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Re: Analogue Cable Switch Off Starts
Ok forgot to do this before
1st July
Huddersfield (Kirklees)
Leeds
And now for the next set
1st October
Basildon
Birmingham/Small Heath
Grimsby
Hemel Hempstead
Norwich
South London/Croydon
Sussex (Brighton)
Thames valley (Reading)
Warwick
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08-07-2009, 18:07
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Re: Analogue Cable Switch Off Starts
if your an analogue sufferer in the bolton area (this includes postcodal areas BL1/BL3/BL4/M28/M38) you will be pleased to know that your network is being upgraded to receive digital cable signals,this should be complete by the end of summer..happy days!!
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08-07-2009, 20:11
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Re: Analogue Cable Switch Off Starts
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How many analogue areas are left, it seems a devilishly slow process. Also will the final switch off give VM much more bandwidth required for broadcasting linear HD channels
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Wow Arthur you beat me to post the question by 1 minutes freaky timing |
They dnt need to swithc analogue to have the bandwidth they have enoguh to launch 10-12 hd channels jsut now if the contratcs where signed but if they wanted to launch the 30 odd hd channels on sky they need the bandwidht from analogue switch off
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20-07-2009, 15:50
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Re: Analogue Cable Switch Off Starts
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Originally Posted by BenMcr
And now for the next set
1st October
Basildon
Birmingham/Small Heath
Grimsby
Hemel Hempstead
Norwich
South London/Croydon
Sussex (Brighton)
Thames valley (Reading)
Warwick
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Managed to miss these too!
1st September
Aztec West (Bristol)
Cardiff
Edinburgh
Gateshead
Exeter
Preston (North West)
Portsmouth (Solent/Cosham)
Swansea
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20-07-2009, 16:18
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Re: Analogue Cable Switch Off Starts
The Cable London franchise covering Camden,Islington,Hackney,Harringey and Enfield still has Analogue, maybe this will be the last to be turned off as there is a specific Greek channel Hellenic TV which is exclusive to this Cable franchise but not available on Sky.
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20-07-2009, 16:31
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Re: Analogue Cable Switch Off Starts
Hellenic TV stopped broadcasting on Virgin on the 17th December 2008
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20-07-2009, 17:07
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Re: Analogue Cable Switch Off Starts
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Hellenic TV stopped broadcasting on Virgin on the 17th December 2008
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What areas will still eb analogue after septermber?>
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20-07-2009, 17:18
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Re: Analogue Cable Switch Off Starts
Nottingham will STILL be analogue? I regret moving back to Lowestoft now.....
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20-07-2009, 17:46
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Re: Analogue Cable Switch Off Starts
Nottingham is Digital
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