Definitely digital

Homes in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata that had analogue cable television went blank last night. The Madras High Court has given the residents of Chennai, where only 62 per cent of connections have been digitised, time till November 5 to switch over to the digital system or face a similar blackout. The latest reports suggest that digitisation has been near universal in Mumbai and 95 per cent in Delhi. Even Kolkata, where West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is trying to make a political issue of it, 83 per cent of homes are digitised. The rest of the country has to move to digital TV in three phases by December 31, 2014.

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