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Neild · 2006-01-06, 09:31 PM

I am trying hard to imagine how marketing is 'working' on the timeshifted channels. There's nothing to 'work' on, they just need to set a priority of putting them back on the air. They're already being sent out by Cancom for goodness sakes.

Everyone has their own preferences I guess but personally I'm glad they're not pursuing HD-PPV that actively. We already pay enough for what we get and I for one would be unwilling to pay more.

Plus I think sending scrambled HD-PPV signal would waste limited bandwidth that could be put to better use. It seems wrong to use bandwidth on PPV movies that perhaps 2% of HD customers would watch instead of MoviePix and timeshifted HD channels that 100% of HD customers would watch.

Sure they'd pull in a bit of extra revenue perhaps, but as near as I can tell surplus revenue isn't their main problem, building a compelling HD offering and catching up to the other providers is....

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2006-01-06, 09:31 PM	#16
Neild Veteran Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 2,010	I am trying hard to imagine how marketing is 'working' on the timeshifted channels. There's nothing to 'work' on, they just need to set a priority of putting them back on the air. They're already being sent out by Cancom for goodness sakes. Everyone has their own preferences I guess but personally I'm glad they're not pursuing HD-PPV that actively. We already pay enough for what we get and I for one would be unwilling to pay more. Plus I think sending scrambled HD-PPV signal would waste limited bandwidth that could be put to better use. It seems wrong to use bandwidth on PPV movies that perhaps 2% of HD customers would watch instead of MoviePix and timeshifted HD channels that 100% of HD customers would watch. Sure they'd pull in a bit of extra revenue perhaps, but as near as I can tell surplus revenue isn't their main problem, building a compelling HD offering and catching up to the other providers is....