I lost over £100 as i'd paid up front for a year's worth of viewing, i got back around £10 from the creditors 3 years later, that was it for me with subscription TV, i never bothered again.
Fortunately, the monkey wasn't entirely dead following this catastrophe. I remember seeing the duo representing the PG Tips tea brand on adverts following ITV Digital's fall. A not-as-significant role as before, but still a charming one regardless.
i had on digital they were useless you would get through and after telling them you were phoning about youre account you had to constantly repeat yourself,i finally got rid of them after blasting them on the phone good riddance to bad rubbish.
Remember them trying to get the receiver boxes back from subscribers later that year. Like they were going to be able to do anything with them. Let folks keep them in the end, which was great as everyone had already chucked them by that point.
i remember this all happening like maybe not 2002 but some switch from digital thing happened when i was young but i still have no idea what it means and what the fuck changed in my life
ITV digital, and OnDigital which came first, used the DVB-T standard for the then SD channels. Some now still use DVB-T but DVB-T2 is the most up-to-date type of digital signal being almost twice as efficient as DVB-T. I initially had OnDigital which continued to work for ITV Digital and the early Freeview so not "repurposed" as such - just continued to work, but updated that box now twice over for a HDD drive Freeview recorder and again for Freeview HD with HDD again for recordings. I still have my old OnDigital box somewhere (in the loft?) - think that pick up some of the current SD channels / radio / info screens if I could be bothered to check.
