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[Hugh Gamble]

 One major advantage of using an antenna, you can get US TV.
Rogers, et al, insert more advertising than US law allows.
To do this they chop out bits of your show,
and you lose out on the actual content.

Canadian re-broadcasts are also edited and censored in other ways
for various and sundry reasons both odious and obscene.
Cable TV only shows you content approved by *the man*.

The Canadian re-broadcasts also substitute Canadian commercials.
With an antenna you can get the original US advertisements.
The ads are frequently the most interesting, important,
and socially relevant parts of the broadcast.

I don't pay for it, and I never will ;-P
(there was a time I could say that about Internet)
You can also, more and more,
supplement over the air TV with Internet TV
(both paid, and free from the Canadian rights holder).
For the 2010/2011 season,
the Canadian networks are mostly buying Canadian Internet rights
together with the broadcast rights.

You can even get *wireless* radio now, by antenna :-)
A lot of the TV tuners also do at least FM.

On 10/08/2010 12:45 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> | From: Colin McGregor <colin.mc151-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
>
> | On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 10:29 PM, William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> | > Rogers Digital Basic (the cheapest package) already gives you HD for
> | > main Canadian and US channels.  Why do you need antenna, then?
> | 
> | The are multiple advantages to using an antenna:
>
> You missed the most fundamental reason:
>
> - Rogers encrypts all HD signals (with the possible exception of
>   their own advertising channels).  The only way I know to decrypt
>   the stream is using a Rogers box.  That produces a single-channel
>   stream in various encodings, all problematic:
>
>   + HDMI -- no chance to capture (HDCP?)
>   + component -- analogue; can be captured with expensive
>     hardware that re-encodes.  Yuck.
>   + firewire -- for some channels HD, I think.  Lennart uses this.
>   + component -- no longer HD, I guess.  But can be captured.
>
>   Essentially, they almost force you to use their pathetic PVR.
>   (I know it is pathetic -- I have one.)
>

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