Alan Cox wrote:
my cable provider (Cablevision in Central MA US). Some estimate that within two
years more US homes will have digital TV than will have broadband Internet
access.
In the UK digital terrestrial is all running as is digital cable/satellite.
The proposal is to turn off analog about 2006 I believe. So far however we
are seeing very little use of MHEG (digital standard for fancy content stuff)
This article tries to explain why ITV is popular in europe, but
remains idle in the US:
http://news.excite.com/news/ap/010219/07/europe-interactive-tv