XPost: can.internet.highspeed, can.general   
   From: Canuck57@nospam.com   
      
   Some Guy wrote:   
      
   > Support local TV and your local TV stations!   
   >   
   > Fight the TV TAX!   
   >   
   > Fight big, evil Cable companies!   
   >   
   > Put up an antenna!   
      
   Tell you what, these local TV stations have the gaul  With the number of   
   adverts, the sucky programming no woner I watch so few local channels   
   and not very often.  Perhaps election night but I can skip the Liberal   
   urinalism and whining and get the results faster in the Internet.   
      
   The deal struck with local stations versus say a movie channel is   
   simple.  The local channels provide a free signal to the local cable   
   operator and they can get to you the consumer for free.  Yes,   
   Rogers/Shaw don't pay for this, just the cable and plant to deliver it.   
     But by law, Shaw/Rogers must carry them.   
      
   On the flip we have other channels, not local, specialty, movie, home,   
   science, hisory and they all get a cut.  Rogers/Shaw does pay them.  But   
   Shaw/Rogers can drop them too.  There is no right of access.   
      
   Ok, let the local channels ask for cash for signal.  But I too want the   
   right to drop then at zero charge to me, the consumer.  I already pay   
   twice as much and get 1/2 as much as most countries in the world.  Hell,   
   if I lived in China or Japan, I would get 100 mbs Internet which   
   includes digital TV for about $31 US/mo and they supply the decoders and   
   modems!  While we think of watching TV over the Interent, they are   
   watching TV over the intenet.   
      
   If my bill goes up, I will slash the costs by triple by lowering my   
   services.  Might even opt out of the TV portion altogether.  70 stations   
   of garbage is not much different than 10.   
      
   Both are evil, tell CRTC to make it law up to 4 providers are allowed   
   per area of service.  Make room for the likes of Time Warner to come   
   here and show the locals how to get cost competative.  Besides SciFi and   
   HBO blow away Encore and Space so bad....the reason Space can't be had   
   in the US is that they would pay for such garbage.  And time shifting   
   movies between ralted channels means our industry is inbread.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)