[GTALUG] Rogers Analog lineup [was Re: best choices for tiny mlinux media centre in 2016?]

[David Collier-Brown]

No, It's not really clear what they're offering. Channels, yes. How, 
no!  --dave

On 09/01/16 02:52 PM, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
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> Mildly on-topic:
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> Has anyone here tried
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> ​ Zaz​eem?
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> - Evan
>
> On Jan 8, 2016, at 11:15, Lennart Sorensen 
> <lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca <mailto:lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca>> 
> wrote:
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>     On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 07:51:35AM -0500, David Collier-Brown wrote:
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>         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.
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>     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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>
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