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

[David Collier-Brown]

I wrote them and asked what they're offering, and why I would care.

I *DETEST* marketers who assume I know what XYZZY mean.

--dave



On 09/01/16 09:57 PM, David Collier-Brown wrote:
> 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:
>>
>> Mildly on-topic:
>>
>> Has anyone here tried
>>
>> ​ Zaz​eem?
>>
>> - Evan
>>
>> On Jan 8, 2016, at 11:15, Lennart Sorensen 
>> <lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca <mailto:lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca>> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>     On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 07:51:35AM -0500, David Collier-Brown wrote:
>>
>>         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. 
>>
>>
>>     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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