Comments on: Canada Switches to Digital Broadcast in August 2011 http://www.omegasource.com/2007/12/06/canada-switches-to-digital-broadcast-in-august-2011/ Your Resource For Satellite TV - 403-287-7344 Sun, 20 May 2012 08:06:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: anonymous http://www.omegasource.com/2007/12/06/canada-switches-to-digital-broadcast-in-august-2011/#comment-83901 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:24:11 +0000 http://www.omegasource.com/2007/12/06/canada-switches-to-digital-broadcast-in-august-2011/#comment-83901 I got a digital antenna and converter box and had 1 station, which isn't in my language of choice and wasn't even a station I used to listen to in the good old analog days! The station that I used to listen to the most seems to be one of the difficult ones to get and many times just freezes! :( They say: "Time of the snowy double and poor quality picture will be gone for ever. It will be replaced with crisp and clear picture, or no picture at all with bad signal in poor weather conditions.". ..but personally I'd prefer a snowy/double/poor quality picture then a frozen picture or no picture at all! Am I alone in thinking that while digital transmissions may reduce energy requirements, it is an "inferior" technology in the sense that at least analog is easier to receive in bad weather conditions and won't get stuck?! (i.e.: You can then mutter through a snowy picture rather than watch a still picture or black screen!). Aren't bad weather conditions when many would want to tune in to see what's happening?! I think so and don't think this switch that is forced upon us is a good thing. I already miss analog TV! I got a digital antenna and converter box and had 1 station, which isn’t in my language of choice and wasn’t even a station I used to listen to in the good old analog days! The station that I used to listen to the most seems to be one of the difficult ones to get and many times just freezes! :(

They say: “Time of the snowy double and poor quality picture will be gone for ever. It will be replaced with crisp and clear picture, or no picture at all with bad signal in poor weather conditions.”. ..but personally I’d prefer a snowy/double/poor quality picture then a frozen picture or no picture at all!

Am I alone in thinking that while digital transmissions may reduce energy requirements, it is an “inferior” technology in the sense that at least analog is easier to receive in bad weather conditions and won’t get stuck?! (i.e.: You can then mutter through a snowy picture rather than watch a still picture or black screen!). Aren’t bad weather conditions when many would want to tune in to see what’s happening?! I think so and don’t think this switch that is forced upon us is a good thing. I already miss analog TV!

]]> by: Dan http://www.omegasource.com/2007/12/06/canada-switches-to-digital-broadcast-in-august-2011/#comment-62578 Fri, 09 Sep 2011 21:58:09 +0000 http://www.omegasource.com/2007/12/06/canada-switches-to-digital-broadcast-in-august-2011/#comment-62578 Oops. Seven stations. Oops. Seven stations.

]]> by: Dan http://www.omegasource.com/2007/12/06/canada-switches-to-digital-broadcast-in-august-2011/#comment-62577 Fri, 09 Sep 2011 21:57:32 +0000 http://www.omegasource.com/2007/12/06/canada-switches-to-digital-broadcast-in-august-2011/#comment-62577 I live near Bathurst and 401. Until the last week of August, we got six stations on our flatscreen TV, with an "HD" antenna on the back deck. I usually programmed the TV for "TV", rather than for "Cable", and it would pick most of the same stations on both. On TV, I got CBC, CTV, Global, TVO, SunTV, City and 69 (Omni?) Suddenly reception went to one station (Global) and then to zero. No stations whatsoever. WTF? I live near Bathurst and 401. Until the last week of August, we got six stations on our flatscreen TV, with an “HD” antenna on the back deck.

I usually programmed the TV for “TV”, rather than for “Cable”, and it would pick most of the same stations on both. On TV, I got CBC, CTV, Global, TVO, SunTV, City and 69 (Omni?)

Suddenly reception went to one station (Global) and then to zero. No stations whatsoever. WTF?

]]> by: avengine http://www.omegasource.com/2007/12/06/canada-switches-to-digital-broadcast-in-august-2011/#comment-41456 Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:46:37 +0000 http://www.omegasource.com/2007/12/06/canada-switches-to-digital-broadcast-in-august-2011/#comment-41456 I found the digital boardcast signal for most of the station are weak, only CTV is the best in Richmond Hill, ontario area, would crtc request all this company to increase their output power. I found the digital boardcast signal for most of the station are weak, only CTV is the best in Richmond Hill, ontario area, would crtc request all this company to increase their output power.

]]> by: Admin http://www.omegasource.com/2007/12/06/canada-switches-to-digital-broadcast-in-august-2011/#comment-14067 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:03:17 +0000 http://www.omegasource.com/2007/12/06/canada-switches-to-digital-broadcast-in-august-2011/#comment-14067 You will receive digital broadcast and as a matter of fact, you probably already are. If you currently have a converter or TV with digital tuner then by repeating the TV initial setup and rescanning your channels, you may find new digital channels even from US. Let me know how it went???? You will receive digital broadcast and as a matter of fact, you probably already are. If you currently have a converter or TV with digital tuner then by repeating the TV initial setup and rescanning your channels, you may find new digital channels even from US.
Let me know how it went????

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