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Originally Posted by troutman
Shaw better do something soon, or they will lose all their subscribers.
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I get the feeling that HD is an afterthought for Shaw. Their core demographic (is that the right word in context?) is the average cable subscriber and internet users. In the last few years, they've been pushing hard to promote their digital phone service to the possible detriment of it's television division too. Although the size of the group is increasing, it is a relatively small number of people that demand a wide variety of high quality HD channels.
At the end of the day, it's cheaper for Shaw to focus on its strengths (regular cable, internet, digital phone) and risk losing troutman than it is for Shaw to dump money into upgrading their infrastructure to compete with Starchoice and Expressvu (notwithstanding that Starchoice and Shaw are practically one and the same).