Originally Posted By: grelber
Apparently, the CRTC thinks it's no big deal. And our government isn't offering $40 coupons towards purchase of analog-to-digital converter boxes, saying that most Canadians are hooked up to cable or satellite or already have digital tuners in their TVs. In fact, I noticed converter boxes in merchandise-remaindering stores offering leftover boxes from the USA;....
I would bet CRTC's assumptions are based on experience in the USA. One reaon you are seeing the USA converter boxes in Canada is because the demand in the USA was greatly oversestimated. I live within a mile of two major broadcast television outlets broadcast towers and I don;t know anyone in the area that uses broadcast TV. Satellite, cable, and UVerse offer too much additional content for broadcast to be competitive.


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