“Have you heard about the analogue switch-off?” a telephone caller from my cable TV suppler NTL asks me.
NTL have been trying to get me to move from an analogue modem to a digital service, but it involves me losing CNN, the only remaining 24 hour grown-up news channel now that the BBC and Sky are focused on celebs and murders.
This new ploy about the analogue switch-off ploy is a new one on me,
“Yes”, I reply to the caller's question “but what’s that got to do with you?”
“Wod’ya mean?”
“Well the analogue switch-off relates to broadcast TV; you send your TV programmes down a cable.”
“Oh, Yeah. Well we’re having an analogue switch-off as well”.
“In that case I’ll switch off my direct debit.”
End of conversation.
It’s frightening how warped technobabble is used to mislead people.
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