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Generality these guys are using h264 encoding in an mpeg4 wrapper.<br>
I was talking to a someone a year or two ago who was looking to
use h265.<br>
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The currently CRTC licensed and active providers that I know of
are Zazeen and VMedia.<br>
There is also a company called ATOP(atoptv.com) that has a CRTC
license but do not have any venture capital funding like the other
two guys.<br>
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A quick look around shows up some guys called wowtv that seems to
have a service but I am sure its not CRTC licensed.<br>
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and there is
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.teliphone.com/en/personal/internet-hd-tv-ip-tv-services.html">https://www.teliphone.com/en/personal/internet-hd-tv-ip-tv-services.html</a>
whose service was running out of Montreal when I looked at them a
few years ago but I have a feeling they are not CRTC compliant but
that is just my feeling.<br>
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In Canada all the "TV" content is regulated which means that any
IPTV provider has access to all the content sources that the big
boys use.<br>
The downside is that most of the content is owned or licensed
through Rogers or Bell and these guys are making it hard for small
providers to get a foothold.<br>
One example is that one of the sports channel providers(names are
not being used to protect the guilty) insisted that if you took
the SD feed you had to take the HD feed per subscribed customer.
This meant that you had to charge your customer for both feeds or
eat the cost.<br>
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On 01/09/2016 09:57 PM, David Collier-Brown wrote:<br>
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they're offering. Channels, yes. How, no! --dave<br>
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On 09/01/16 02:52 PM, Evan Leibovitch wrote:<br>
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<p dir="ltr">Mildly on-topic: </p>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 8, 2016, at 11:15, Lennart
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<pre>On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 07:51:35AM -0500, David Collier-Brown wrote:
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid #729fcf;padding-left:1ex"> I like the fish tank, but switching to encrypted digital instead of plain
digital is just a scheme to make me retire my MythTV in favor of their tied
PVR offering.
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I am sure we are not that important to rogers.
On the other hand freeing up bandwidth from the analog channels for more
channels and more cable modem bandwidth is useful to rogers.
Now if they can get more people to buy their pvr to replace a VCR,
I am sure rogers doesn't mind that.
I suspect for most people of course, spending $500 on the rogers pvr that
has 8 tuners and 1TB storage, or spending $300 on the HD box + $300 on
the HDPVR to get one tuner to work with your mythtv box, well I just
think most people go with the rogers box option. Not me, but most people.
I don't think mythtv users were ever much of a concern to rogers.
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