From: jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca   
      
   Analogue channels require hardware filters for every home that   
   block/enable a range of frequencies (aka: channels).   
      
   This shuffling may enable Rogers to free up a block of channels which   
   will no lonegr require a filter since that block would no longer carry   
   any analogue channels   
      
      
   Now that "The Wire Report" has reported Rogers intends to move to an all   
   IPTV  television distribution. I don't have any info on this, but this   
   would be a very interesting move because they could do this by freeing a   
   relatively small number of analogue channels.   
      
   Another aspect is that Rogers only has 42mhz of bandwodth (7 NTSC   
   channels) which have repeaters to allow signals from home to the cable   
   head end (aka: upload).  If there were some analogue channels there,   
   moving them out to channels which are outside of this limited 42mhz   
   capacity would free up bandwidth for upload (with docsis3 , they can   
   bond uploadchannels to offer much more upload capacity).   
      
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