I received a notice from my apartment building, who bundles basic cable into my rent, and was told that Shaw needs to install digital boxes to remain receiving basic cable. Makes no difference to me since I already have a HD PVR, an HD box (awaiting a new TV to hook it up to as it is a rental) and a SD box. But here in Lloydminster are they phasing out analog cable altogether or did my apartment building make this decision?
If so, does this mean that Lloydminster will finally receive all the channels Shaw offers elsewhere such as Canadian Timeshifting and Superchannel? I would assume this would be a solution to the finite capacity issue as I understand that digital has a higher capacity (possibly infinite like IPTV) and could carry all of these channels without a capacity issue.
Just an update for anyone in Airdrie, Alberta, it's going 100% digital (Phase 2) towards end of February. Customers will be receiving a letter/notice from us if not already.
@MacOSX - I don't sorry. Airdrie was one of our first areas that went through DNU. (region, infrastructure, geography - are some of the considerations)
I am in Kelowna, BC and around Christmas we started getting MC2 HD and MC3 HD but we are still getting Tiers 1,2 and 3 in analog so I am assuming we don't have the DNU yet.
Just saw an announcement on MSNBC, saying New Westminster was undergoing the upgrade, and from the number of Shaw trucks i`ve seen around town i`m not surprised. I will keep checking to see if MC2HD or MC3HD show up !
I was told by a Shaw CSR that the DNU is close when the analog channels start to have a banner on the bottom saying that they will be disappearing soon.
fyi here in my neighbourhood of Vancouver it took exactly 3 weeks from the time the warning banners at the bottom of the analog channels first appeared to the DNU implementation (that was back beginning of Dec)
I was wondering the same thing. MC2HD and MC3HD finally became operational on Feb.12 in my area of Burnaby and so far the movie list has not been very impressive. With all the hype we've been getting since March of last year about "exciting new channels coming soon to your area when Shaw switches over to digital", I keep thinking where the heck are they?
At least you've been upgraded, still no sign of action in my part of south west Calgary.
If you run "exciting new channels coming soon to your area" through the Shaw family Babelfish I suspect the translation would be "more ways to maintain Brad Shaw's position as the 4th highest paid CEO in Canada."
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