Posted by Jukka Aho on 10/30/06 15:57

Clive wrote:

> Same situation here in Sweden, they are switching off analogue at
> around the same time next year. But most people seem well prepared,
> the only mutterings I've heard are why should people be forced to buy
> an STB themselves when they already pay the license fee and get a
> good picture from analogue. However these complaints are very minor,
> quite likely because mostly everyone in the big cities are connected
> to cable these days and those out in the sticks have satellite or DVB
> already. There is only a very limited number of channels broadcast on
> analogue anyway so to be able to find anything half decent to watch
> you must have cable.

Hmm... why wouldn't the cable subscribers complain about the same thing?

Since DVB allows broadcasting a lot more programming in the terrestrial
networks than the old analog technology [1], some people here are now
finding they don't want cable after all. The channel selection in the
digital terrestrial networks - although cable admittedly offers more -
is now good enough for them. (I'm not envisioning a mass exodus of any
sort, but I've seen random people who are seriously considering
terminating their cable subscription, mainly because they feel they will
get all they need from the terrestrial network, and would like to escape
the monthly basic fees.)

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[1] Because of lossy compression, the yet-to-be-fulfilled promise of
single-frequency networks, and other such things.

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znark

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