On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 04:42:18PM +0100, Paul Mison wrote: > On 03/04/2002 at 16:24 +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > > >Huh? He said it was impractical to turn off the analogue transmitters > >because ITV Digital went bust, the implication being that without ITVD > >there would be no digital terrestrial TV so they wouldn't be able to > >turn off analogue broadcasts. It is a common misconception that digital > >terrestrial TV is ITV Digital but it ain't and therefore the dissapearance > >of ITV Digital will have fuck-all effect on digital terrestrial TV other > >than changing the channel line-up. > > You know as well as I do that up until all of two weeks ago ITV Digital > was the only way to recieve digital terrestrial
No, that is not the case. ITV Digital are the only people selling DTTV decoders as a loss leader. No-one else is aggressively advertising decoders. But then, stand-alone decoders have only just gone on the market. You've been able to buy a TV with built-in decoder for some time now though. You can buy or rent a decoder - or a TV with one built in - without going anywhere near ITVD. You will be able to get all the free-to-air channels. More information at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/digital/q_a.shtml#18 </bbcpropaganda> > digital is not so much the fact ITV is in recievership- they're in that > state as no bugger uses them- but that digital takeup is still very > slow and dominated by Sky, which charges a small fortune. I don't know what the figures are, but Sky no longer do analogue at all, and NTL and Telepest are only selling new packages as digital. > Maybe the new Pace box will make a difference, but if it doesn't then > how can you justify forcing people to move to a new technology with > very little appreciable benefit and some distinct problems (I can't > think of a single digital provider that's happy for you to watch their > output on more than one TV without paying for additional rental or kit). It has several benefits, not least appearing to be shiny. -- Lord Protector David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david "Dave, being Evil is no excuse for indenting like a moonshine-crazed lemur" -- Aaron Trevena
