NTL Digital TV quality (was Re: [ILUG] Broadband in Dublin) 
FRLinux writes:
> On 10/8/07, Gavin McCullagh  wrote:
> > their customer service is awful, but I haven't needed it.  Their tv set-top
> > box is a POS but that's a different issue.
> 
> I concur, although the latest revisions are not too bad (they replaced
> mine 3 times ...) and also had to do some QoS in the area (been on the
> phone a few times with even some knowledgeable people once or twice)
> to fix the network freezes.

Good to know I'm not the only one -- I ditched NTL Digital after too many
set-top box lockups.  I also noticed some MPEG artifacting in the signal
(due to low bitrates?), which hardly makes the digital service more
attractive than analogue...

--j.


