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Originally Posted by fanforever1986
...the technology is not in place to do stupid things like block out part of the country from watching it.
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Yep. and that's the point right there.
The underlying issue is that if Poker is on Bell on the TSN-HD channel, it's on across the country on that channel. Now here's the chain of events leading up to what happened last night.
- Bell is pretty laid back with CFL blackouts. If a Calgary game is on CBC Calgary it is blacked out for CBC Calgary, but nothing prevents me from turning to CBC Winnipeg and watching it.
- TSN was aware that last season games that were supposed to be blacked out- Bell was blacking out the SD feed and not the HD feed.
So, on a game like last night when the HD feed would only be showing the SD feed anyways, TSN throws something else onto the HD feed. Because no matter if we watch it on channel 400 or channel 850- it would be the exact same broadcast.