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Originally Posted by fanforever1986
You're arguing against a capitalistic point of view...what can I say? I'm sorry they are making money? The Juno's ratings tanked this year. BGM saw that coming. The Juno's are about as important as the molson 3 star lunch in. BGM is doing much more to provide Canadians with orginal programming than Shaw.
I believe I already posted this, but in an interview that aired on a news talk radio station in Vancouver, Shaw said that they would be pushing Digital Phone more than HDTV because they felt there was more money to be made, and their network could not handle much more HDTV at the time. I'm not sure what type of upgrades they've made, but certainly haven't heard of any.
You're purely speculating saying this. CBC has put a Western Canadian HD truck into production, TSN has multiple HD mobile production units...It seems that an upgrade to OTA signals across North America to digital is only a matter of time. Surely you know the CRTC will one day require that all analog signals be made digital?
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Wait, you were the one promoting Bell because "They're Canadian. Both of them provide original programming." OilKiller points out how big the "Canadian" aspect matter, since they wanted to delay coverage of the Junos. So you resond back with "I"m sorry they are making money?" Way to shift the argument. You are in fact backing up OilKiller's claim about how the Canadian networks make most of their money by retransmitting American content. So why are you arguing with him?
Your statement about an interview you heard on the radio really adds nothing to the debate. Digital phone has not been up for discussion, but if Shaw thinks there is more money in digital phone service, what does it matter? I'm sorry Shaw is making money? The fact is, Shaw and StarChoice just added a bunch more HD programming, so that makes the whole "Shaw doesn't care/can't handle additional HD" statement spurious.
And finally, digital TV <> HDtv. Take a look at all the newer digital channels in the past few years and only a portion of them will have been in HD. The terms are not interchangeable.