As an aside, Shaw mentions that they are freeing up network capacity by converting everyone to digital. I'm not familiar with the technicalities, but I can assume that analogue signals are inefficient and take up more than their fair share of the capacity.
Just this week, ironically, I noticed that Shaw's TV packages now provide an option to go to "Digital Basic" with your usual HD which is perfect if you're not a heavy TV watcher and/or you pretty much stick with the 200's an up for the HD. It essentially chops "classic cable" tiers 1, 2, and 3 from your plan (channels 23-49) and reduces your bill by about $27. Since some of those channels are available in HD anyway, and many are just fillers in the cable tier pricing scheme, I'm doubtful that I'll even miss them.
I realize that this is not the TV thread, but because Shaw sites the move to digital TV as a way of expanding internet capacity, and because most of us are wrapped up in bundles for TV and Internet, this is indirectly related. You might want to help the process along and save $27 in the process. I'm sure that once Shaw has everyone on a digital terminal, they'll find a way to re-serve those channels digitally, but in the mean time, why pay for them?
Here's a link to a channel lineup PDF to see what you'd be missing:
http://www.shaw.ca/uploadedFiles/Cus...yLineup_v2.pdf