For everybody complaining about this; think of it as an ends to a means. I've seen this channel used in businesses; a way of having something nice in a waiting room to look at and listen to. So here's Shaw's (possible) thinking:
- We need more bandwidth for residential HD service. That costs money.
- We have all these business internet customers. If we could get them to sigh up for HD TV service, that would increase our cutumer base significantly.
- Once we have that extra money coming in from those business customers, we can increase our general HD bandwidth.
With one extra channel that as Photon said couldn't use significant bandwidth they have expanded their customer base. The channel is not for Joe Homewner. But it could end up helping him.
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