Rogers continues to force people to switch to analogue
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Go to your local Rogers and pick up a free box.
I have a couple of TV's around the house that are older (the basement, garage, spare room, etc.) and grabbed the digital box. It comes with a converter that you can easily program for your specific TV model (which was handy because I lost the original converters over the years). Per the TV in the garage (I use it to watch baseball in the summer while hanging out in the garage) the box actually gave me more channels.
I had to call in to get them to reset something for me and while talking she gave me an extra 100 gig on my monthly internet cap and a netbox for free.
I have a couple of TV's around the house that are older (the basement, garage, spare room, etc.) and grabbed the digital box. It comes with a converter that you can easily program for your specific TV model (which was handy because I lost the original converters over the years). Per the TV in the garage (I use it to watch baseball in the summer while hanging out in the garage) the box actually gave me more channels.
I had to call in to get them to reset something for me and while talking she gave me an extra 100 gig on my monthly internet cap and a netbox for free.
Cut my cable 15 years ago and never looked back. I would consider digital antennas though - a friend of mine set it up and he says its great. Gets about 20 Canadian and US channels - but can watch Superbowl with US ads.
Didn't know what happened, one day flipped on my tv in the bedroom and could get no US channels, only got about 10 channels of local Canadian garbage and ...yes...the 24 hr aquarium channel. Same on my basement tv, the one on my main floor has a digital box and it was fine. Called Rogers, they said to get those channels back on the other TV's I needed to buy digital boxes for each at $400 per unit !!! WTF ?!?!?!? I said, "You mean to tell me that last week I got a bunch more channels than I have now, but now you've changed it. I can keep paying the same as I was for a few crap channels or pay $800 more to keep what I had last week?". And they said "That's right". Right then and there I told them to cancel all my services, I would go to a competitor. I get put on hold, then all of a sudden she says, "Oh we can send you digital conversion boxes for free, but you won't get online channel guide's or access to all Rogers pay per view and specialty channel blah blah blah yada yada....". But I would get the channels I had last week. Send 'em, I tell her. "Are you sure you don't want to upgrade to Rogers Nexbox? With it you can...blah blah blah...". I asked her if she really just wanted me to cancel, or send the boxes. Boxes arrived about 3 days later, work fine. What a bunch of friggin' scammers.
Just to clarify: All broadcast over the air TV has been digital (and hi-def) for several years. US law required the change in 2009, and Canada changed a little later. It may be that the private contracts between content-providers like ESPN or HGTV and the cable companies they feed their signals to allowed for analogue to continue, but they'd have had an increasingly hard (and expensive) time maintaining such substandard equipment when cheaper, better digital was readily available everywhere. They too went digital long ago. Without a pre-2009 TV, you can't even detect an analogue signal.
Whatever the fuss with Rogers, it has more to do with the perils of being their monthly cash-cow than any particular technology.
Whatever the fuss with Rogers, it has more to do with the perils of being their monthly cash-cow than any particular technology.
I still have an old analogue TV in the "doghouse". Couldn't be bothered to buy a hi-def TV and a hi-def cable box. Yes, Rogers is providing this as a free service since I also have hi-def on another TV with them.
