As long as people continue to pay the premium for HD channels, they are going to continue to push it, regardless of the signal.
I notice all their advertising, and even when people ask about who to subscribe to for HD channels, the thing that is always pushed is the number of channels and quality is rarely mentioned. As far as Bell or Starchoice goes, they only have so much bandwidth, so if they can compress each channel a tiny bit more and add another HD channel, then they will do so.
Until consumers are actually more concerned with quality of channels as opposed to the number of channels, this will continue to be an issue.
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