HD Television Broadcast Decoding
Submitted by RobertAA 2010–06–09 12:20:35 EDT
Theme(s): Canada's Digital Content
Summary
As a Canadian, I feel shackled to a wall when it comes to my choice of television providers. There are many other providers that provide better content and service that are restricted in Canada due to regulation regarding Canadian content. If content needs to be forced upon Canadians by our on regulations then Canadians need a change, what happened to equality? Choose what you want to watch and if your provider does not offer it choose another.
Why must I purchase a top box/pvr with a remote to watch an encripted tv show sent by satelite? Why can I not just purchase a small box from the provider with a card to decode the signal for a monthly fee then choose what I want to do with it? As an example, encoded signal sent from provider is received, signal enters decoder box (provided by the provider) to be decoded, signal comming out of the box is QAM256 (HD) running over co–axial cable!!!
Submission
With the limited choice of television providers and requirement of the CRTC for Canadian content to be provided, we as Canadians restrict ourselves from the choice of other cultural providers that offer more and/or different content. We are shackled into purchasing or renting top boxes and pvr's which restrict the use of content we pay for instead of allowing purchased content to be used as the consumer sees fit.
