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Bayguy · 2012-08-09, 08:29 PM

AFF if the #s are the same then how do you tell it to give you the HD or SD channel? Like what if the rcvr is HD so it wants to display the HD channel but youre having trouble with the 82 sat and you want to see the SD chan. on 91?

JoeLouie · 2012-08-09, 09:18 PM

One of the only things I like about Eastlink cable is that if you put it on an SD channel, and there is an HD version available it will say "Watch this in HD", you click it and voila, you're on the HD channel.

reidw · 2012-08-09, 09:33 PM

Maybe I don't want to watch a show in HD. Some programs don't gain a thing when you do so. SD is just fine. The news channels come to mind for example. CBC NN and CTV NC look just fine in SD thank you and most of their real content is still SD. I'd find that kind of message to be a form of heckling and very annoying.

JoeLouie · 2012-08-09, 10:07 PM

Eventually everything is going to be in HD anyways, so might as well embrace it now lol

AFF · 2012-08-09, 11:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Bayguy

AFF if the #s are the same then how do you tell it to give you the HD or SD channel? Like what if the rcvr is HD so it wants to display the HD channel but youre having trouble with the 82 sat and you want to see the SD chan. on 91?

There are 2 300's for example, and if you select only the HD by hitting the guide button again only the HD shows up.

57 · 2012-08-09, 11:44 PM

Rogers also has Auto-HD for some channels. You select channel 8 (CTV-SD Toronto) on an HD STB and it gives you CTV-HD automatically. If you want the SD version for some reason it's somewhere else on the dial with all the timeshift CTV-SD channels. Of course, some people are never satisfied.

Pinza · 2012-08-10, 06:38 AM

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Originally Posted by 57

Of course, some people are never satisfied.

Now ain't that the truth......lol

2012-08-09, 11:44 PM	#21
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2012-08-09, 08:29 PM	#16
Bayguy Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Baja BC Posts: 430	AFF if the #s are the same then how do you tell it to give you the HD or SD channel? Like what if the rcvr is HD so it wants to display the HD channel but youre having trouble with the 82 sat and you want to see the SD chan. on 91?

2012-08-09, 09:18 PM	#17
JoeLouie Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 887	One of the only things I like about Eastlink cable is that if you put it on an SD channel, and there is an HD version available it will say "Watch this in HD", you click it and voila, you're on the HD channel.

2012-08-09, 09:33 PM	#18
reidw Veteran Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Stratford, PE. Posts: 2,458	Maybe I don't want to watch a show in HD. Some programs don't gain a thing when you do so. SD is just fine. The news channels come to mind for example. CBC NN and CTV NC look just fine in SD thank you and most of their real content is still SD. I'd find that kind of message to be a form of heckling and very annoying.

2012-08-09, 10:07 PM	#19
JoeLouie Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 887	Eventually everything is going to be in HD anyways, so might as well embrace it now lol