PEOPLE have been cancelling their subscriptions to Wharf Cable TV because of marital disputes and lack of time to watch the programmes.
The company's marketing manager, Max Ho, said some of the 400 people who had not renewed their monthly subscriptions had claimed that having the extra eight TV channels had caused too much domestic friction.
''Perhaps the husband decided to buy our service, and then the wife found that he did not have enough time for the family; or perhaps there were arguments about what programme to watch,'' Mr Ho said.
In a survey of all the reasons for cancellations since these started being processed in December, about 20 per cent of people had handed back their decoders after deciding they did not have enough time to watch TV.
About the same proportion cancelled the service because they were moving home.
Mr Ho said ''only about one per cent'' had complained that the $198 monthly fee was too high.