I did not realise that!
So the consumers choice is Satellite Dish Sky TV that cuts out and becomes unwatchable in Heavy Rain and/or High Winds with nearby Trees getting in the way when their leaves come out for the summer OR Virgin Cable TV that instead suffers from vandals plugging the cable that serves your house into a different power level (of the four available levels) in the frequently wide open Virgin Street Distribution Cabinets due to poor quality locks on their doors.
Instead of attenuating the signal in the cabinet it would be more tamperproof to attenuate the signal inside the house so it wouldn't make any difference what the vandal did to the street cabinet - or fit effective locks to all the cabinets.
Has anyone ever experimented with a variable attenuator to see if they can fine tune their cable line - meaning between the four fixed power levels that they are on? Only four power levels must be quite a compromise for the big areas a cabinet serves.
Why don't Virgins Super Hubs and Cable TV Boxes include (automatic self-tuning) internal software controlled attenuators? It would eliminate the four different power levels of the street cabinet issue - it would also eliminate thousands of service calls daily only to "adjust power levels" when all that really means is someone having to go out just to move a cable from one socket to another adjacent socket in the street cabinet - surely that could be automated by doing it remotely by software controlled attenuators inside Super Hubs and Set Top Boxes.