11-03-2009, 08:23 AM
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 | The No Pain Train | | Proud Staff Member Join Date: Nov 17th, 2003 Location: Places men fear to tread
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Originally Posted by MCIBUS  As to the claim about CBC, CTV, & Global, true they have more then one feed of those nets in HD, but then the same could be said about US providers claiming 100+ HD channels ie Dish & Direct(not sure about cable and the telephone providers) but they to have HD channels of ABC,NBC,etc feeds as well, grant you you can't get more then one fed(as I understand it, some about Simplex or what ever itds called. | wrong Tom. Dish and Direct cannot count the US networks as HD in their count (or if they do, they can only count them as 4 or 5) as the rules in the US are different than Canada.
Canada EVERYONE gets the nets in HD regardless of location...In the US you can only get your local channels and in some markets none are in HD.
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