With the invention of digital TV, many TV channels face the dilemma of whether to switch to digital. Although the advantages of digital TV are many, there are also pitfalls. To raise the funds to switch to digital, BBC decreased subscriptions to analogue channels and fired program makers, leading to a drop in quality. This alienated the public to such an extent that there’s been a dramatic shortfall in the expected number of subscribers to the new BBC digital channels and a financial disaster looms, from which recovery seems unlikely. And so, many channels have resisted switching.

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It is possible for most channels to switch to digital TV and maintain their public base.

The other channels, like BBC, will fail in successfully switching to digital.

A channel cannot switch successfully if the existing quality of programs isn’t maintained.

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BBC can regain its public base and popularity again.

Digital TV is not a beneficial proposition for most TV channels.

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Whether you can identify the unstated assumption a critical-reasoning argument depends on.

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