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Originally Posted by corporatejay
I guess for "basic cable" people, channel 200-240 are HD channels, and I watch those all the time.
The problem is, from what I understand, is in order for me to get TSNHD I not only pay $11 for my HD Plus package, but I have to buy tier 3 basic cable, or whatever it is.
That's bulls***, I could care less if I don't get Peachtree TV or Vision or any of that other junk.
Someone more tech saavy than I can probably clarify, but as I understand it, cable works on a pipe system whereby all channels are "in the pipe" so to speak at any given time where as satelite and even TELUS TV (the old one anyway) "fetched" the channel as you click on it.
If this is true, isn't a large amount of the bandwidth coming into my house being consumed by crap I don't even use, how does that make sense?
What's also insane is analog cable apparently takes up nearly as much as HD, which makes me wonder why we don't dump analog all together.
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I could be wrong (or perhaps I got the sales guy of the year when I called), but I don't think you need tier 3 for tsnhd. I have basic with HD plus and the hd sports channels.
It actually works out strangely as I have TSN, TSNHD and SNHD, but not Sportsnet Standard. This normally wouldn't be an issue except that my upstairs tv doesn't have the hd box so I can't watch sportsnetHD on it. That means any game that's on Sportsnet can't be watched upstairs. In order to add this channel, I'd have to pay $16/month extra because of the awesome tiered system.