Viewers may be paid to go digital

[Nemesis]

Hmmm,

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3305235.stm

yeah i saw that, why????? they can just give notice and then cut the analogue transmissions

[Jon M]

fine by me.. i'll just hold off buying my freeview box.
cough it up mr.blair £££ cha-ching! .. lol

(to be honest I doubt it will happen.. as a cheapo freeview box is just £40-50 these days.. what claim does a license payer (£110+ a year) with a TV (£? more than £100 for most) have to not being able to afford it??)

[homealone]

Originally Posted by gary_580

yeah i saw that, why????? they can just give notice and then cut the analogue transmissions

I have analogue TV with NTL - I am quite happy with the channels I get and am not fussed about any 'interactivity'. From reading posts on here & listening to colleagues at work, I benefit from no pixellation, no signal dropouts/freezing and no loss of sound after adverts - they would certainly have to compensate me to get me to move to digital & suffer all that.

Then there is the lottery over which STB will be provided & whether it will have an analogue bypass fitted (presently I can watch cable & record terrestrial from an aerial at the same time).

For my purposes Analogue is better than digital & if push came to shove I would be more likely to go for Freeview - the only loss there being Sky1 & Sky Movies. That would save me £14.99 a month for the movie channel, alone! and I have friends who have already watched the new episodes of 'Angel', for example, via download.

Gaz

[DrAwesome]

Originally Posted by gary_580

yeah i saw that, why????? they can just give notice and then cut the analogue transmissions

NTL can do as they please..
I remember when they removed/ took off the country music channel my next door neighbor (who is a pensioner) went bannanas, he asked me to phone the local cs and ask why. The reply/answer was that "we didnt ask customers if they wanted it removed, we are acting on the customers best interest by removing the channel"

If NTL can do that without notice the government can do much worse and probably give the same statement, and instead of paying people to jump from analogue to digital do a complete u-turn and maybe increase the license fee for people who stay on analogue, hitting them were it hurts most in their pocket.

I cant remember a year when NTL/Sky have'nt increased the price for subscriptions.

[luftys]

I like my analogue box,it will cost me more for the channels I want on digital