Canada goes High-def!
August 24th, 2005 at 3:56 pm by Chrissy
I’ll admit it, I’m jealous of Canadians. Great healthcare, quality education, low crime rates, beautiful cities. In 2002, Vancouver tied with Melbourne as the top city in the world in which to live, according to The Economist. And living in Vancouver just got better.
As Kevin Tofel over at HD Beat pointed out, Vancouver now has its very first over-the-air high-def signal. CTV recently started broadcasting a high-def signal out of Vancouver and Toronto. Toronto already had two high-def signals, but for Vancouver this is a first. This means that our Canadian friends can soon take advantage of Beyond TV 4.0, which will have support for OTA HDTV recording! The takeaway? For Canadians, it’s been a bad year for hockey, and a good one for HDTV.
NOTE: Just to clear up any confusion, it’s important to mention that we don’t have arrangements to get Canadian guide data right now. Because there won’t be a Canadian EPG, Canadians will have to use manual recordings or XML TV to schedule high-def recordings.
Chrissy Davis
Public Relations Coordinator
August 30th, 2005 at 4:51 pm
Actually in Toronto, we have 6 OTA (CBC English, CBC French, Toronto1, CityTv and CTV) stations and 3 more (Global, OMNI1 & OMNI2) coming soon. Not to mention the 5-6 from Buffalo/Rochester. (Fox/WB. ABC. NBC. CBS. PBS)
September 1st, 2005 at 10:51 am
“I’ll admit it, I’m jealous of Canadians. Great healthcare, quality education, low crime rates, beautiful cities.”
Now we know she absolutely doesn’t know what she’s talking about.
September 6th, 2005 at 5:29 pm
Ok, ok. Chill boys! We can have different opinions about healthcare, can’t we? I’m always interested in other perspectives, like yours.
If you have private healthcare in the States, it’s possible that you’re getting better care than Canadians. But if you don’t have private healthcare, in comparison to the Canadian system, you’re in for quite a rough time.
As for Bragi’s comments, surely we can agree to at least be respectful in our criticisms of each other’s opinions. I might add, this is a personal opinion, and we value those here in the States as I’m sure you do up in Canada.
September 22nd, 2005 at 1:39 am
The original blog entry says: NOTE: Just to clear up any confusion, it’s important to mention that we don’t have arrangements to get Canadian guide data right now.
That’s confusing to me, because the following are true:
1) I use Beyond TV (3)
2) I live in Vancouver
3) I get guide data without (knowingly) using XMLTV
I’m curious, if there will be no Canadian guide data in version 4, does that mean that people who have already purchased version 3 will lose their guide data? If not, why can’t version 4 just get guide data the same way 3 does?