I found this an interesting read too....between Canada's communications administor and al-jeerza so they can be broadcast in Canada.....restrictions etc.
posted on May 1, 2004 04:20:16 PM new
The programing that I see in America is painfully awful on every channel. What exactly do you think that the Canadians are missing on their "tee vee" schedule? Unless it's programing to delight fourth graders I doubt that it can be found in the United States.
posted on May 1, 2004 04:31:30 PM new
oh Christ Helen, the X generation, or whatever it is they are being called these days WANT THEIR -FRIENDS- SURVIVOR and all the other meaningless TV. There are even some people that still watch SOAP OPERAS
(I watched about 2 weeks a very long time ago, of I think it was General Hospital, the Ft Lewis guys were all watching it, that was when I was with the ex idiot I was with, and they were fascinated with the Luke and Laura saga)
myself, I prefer HGTV all the time
Mike loves the Speed Channel and of course the Wings channel-everything airplanes!
sometimes the movie channels.
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posted on May 1, 2004 04:33:45 PM new
I forgot, we 'old folks' here in this house have a tee vee in the bedroom too, and watch Letterman every night. Like the old fogeys that wouldn't miss a Johnny Carson show.
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posted on May 1, 2004 05:02:30 PM new
Linda, (please note that I'm speaking in a quiet, "being nice" voice) watching television is not that important for many of us in Canada and we don't rely on it totally for our knowledge and news. Others here love to watch it and want all the latest offerings so they would be protesting the loudest. To each his own. Your informational site on HDTV is 2 years old. This is the latest on it.
NTS, I travel into the US at least once a week, sometimes more often. I've seen gardens done in red, white and blue and there's nothing wrong with that. Sometimes in Canada gardens are planted with red and white petunias to look like the Canadian flag.
Canadians have a great interest in Americans because almost everything that happens in the US affects us, that's why we keep up to date and discuss it. Just because some of us bash Bush it doesn't mean that we're bashing the US. You're free to bash our politicians too because lots of them are idiots.
posted on May 1, 2004 06:24:31 PM new
This is a more uptodate site about HDTV in the US.
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The transition to HDTV in the US has not yet reached critical mass but there is increasing availability of premium as well as freely available terrestrial broadcast HD content.
Satellite television companies in the USA, such as Dish Network, started to carry HD programming in 2002. Some cable television companies, such as Comcast, started to do the same in 2003. As of July 2003, HD programming is carried by all major television networks (except Fox which plans to go HD in mid 2004)
In Canada, on November 22, 2003, CBC had their first broadcast in HD. Bell ExpressVu, a Canadian satellite company has TSN HD and Discovery HD (Canadian Edition). The Canadian Discovery HD Channel has commercials and is sponsored By Franklin Templeton Investments. Other networks are continuing to announce availability of HD signals.
Japan terrestrial broadcast of HD via ISDB-T started December of 2003. It is reported that one million HD receivers have been sold in Japan already.
Australia started HD broadcasting January of 2002 but only in August of 2003 was HD content mandated. Since August sales of DTV receivers in Australia have picked up.
Europe has two satellite HDTV channels: Euro1080 and astra HD test, both on Astra 1.
posted on May 1, 2004 06:51:03 PM new
We have a HDTV, Mikey bought it as a present to himself, you know, guys and electronics He got a huge one, and yes, its neat, I am not sure how many HD channels we have with Comcast, they have one thats sort of a 'test' HD channel, really cool, showing like an IMAX, you could leave it on, and its like this gigantic screensaver lol!
Me, I would have preferred something besides another tv, but he said, and of course the salesman said, that soon, everything is going to be in high definition. How soon? I don't think THAT soon, but probably within the next decade, but who knows.
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posted on May 1, 2004 08:00:03 PM new
Near, I saw an excerpt from an Electronics show in the U.S. This guy worked for one of the major Japanese electronic companies and said that pretty soon we'll have tv's as flat as paper and as big as a wall. Among other things, he said these would be great for basements, because you could have a live image of the beach or a scene running on it all day and you wouldn't be able to tell it wasn't real. Pretty cool, eh?
