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Originally Posted by Shazam
There is no way for a customer to keep their current Shaw HD lineup without forking over more money. That's the problem. If all they did was introduce five new channels and kept their current free lineup, we'd all be happy.
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Did you think it was going to be free forever? Or would it be better to make everybody pay an increased price for cable, so that the people getting HD wouldn't be the only ones paying more?
Or would it have been better for Shaw to have started charging a fee when they only had 3 HD channels available?
Most companies make the early adopters pay dearly for the new technology. Instead Shaw offered it for free until it was a valuable enough package to justify charging money for.
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Originally Posted by Shazam
Eh? My brother used to work at Future Shop; I assure you Shaw and Future Shop make good money off the HD boxes (so did my brother - $50 spiffs on those buggers).
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Just because Shaw paid your brother as well as FS a spiff for selling them doesn't mean that Shaw is making money on them. The main reason Shaw doesn't allow non-Shaw boxes to be added is they have a reciprical agreement in place with other cable companies to not activate each other's boxes on their networks; so that Comcast doesn't end up subsidizing a Shaw customer.
I guess for me I always felt justified in paying $10 for HD programming even though up until a month ago my Tv wasn't even HD. The improved picture on my SD TV as well as the 5.1 sound were enough for me. Now that I have a true HDTV, I can't imagine not spending money to feed it quality signals.