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No, no you can't. Blu-Ray movies with ICT activated will ONLY display in full HD over HDMI. Anything else and it'll degrade it down to DVD quality[1], making the extra cost for the PS3 completely worthless. It's not worth cheaping out on $100 (which won't even buy you two PS3 games anyway) when all you'll accomplish is making your PS3 become worthless in a few years. See the Wikipedia article on Blu-ray and a HDTV Canada article on the ICT itself.

There's no reason to criple your PS3 by getting the cheap version that's guaranteed not to support all Blu-ray content.

[1] Actually ever-so-slightly-higher than DVD quality. But not full HD quality in any case.

A few months old now, but likely indicative of trends:

Canada leads the world in Firefox Usage (love that capitalization)
http://www.digitalhomecanada.com/content/view/1247 /

http://www.digitalhomecanada.com/content/view/1278 /51/

Either way it was CADNS and not CIRA that made that determination.

Radio Shack

From Digital Home Canada

quote:
"tax on blank CD-R and CD-RW discs will remain at 21 cents per unit"
"29 cent tax on blank tapes and 77 cent tax on blank CD-R Audio, CD-RW Audio and MiniDiscs"

Copyright Board of Canada Fact Sheet for more info.

IMHO, Firefox addins like Adblock have as much to do with taming of ads on the web. HOWEVER, I have come across sites that now forces you to disable Adblock to view their sites with the site operator claiming they need to show ads so their sites wouldn't go belly-up. The problem is most of the time the ads they display are those annoying Macromedia Flash based ads that sometimes are just buggy and suck up system resources. In any case, I just steer clear of those sites.

Here is one such site which forces you to disable Adblock when using Firefox or asks you to use Internet Explorer instead: www.digitalhomecanada.com

...a nice, tidy, cut-and-dry violation of the Canadian telecommunications regulations act.

They do regulate telecommunications companies and there was a recent kerfuffle over the fact that telcos offering VoIP were regulated while cable companies and pure internet companies are not. http://digitalhomecanada.com/index.php?option=com_ content&task=view&id=531&Itemid=51

Cira regulates the ".ca" DNS registration. http://www.cira.ca/ but I don't think they regulate any other part of the internet in Canada.

SFAIK there isn't any internet regulations in Canada. Various laws like copyright and libel still apply but there's nothing specific covering the internet. Please correct my ignorance if I am mistaken.

PDA sales have increased substantially, with Blackberry well in the lead, but the MS OS predominates.

Well, crap.

I see VC-9 is also required in the BD-ROM format too.

Well played, Microsoft. I'm going to live in the woods.

The CRTC Issues 911 Ruling for VoIP Providers

Firefox growth is declining Some people I know that switched to firefox switched back to IE mainly because firefox is somewhat unstable and a memory hog. I still use firefox because of tabbed browsing, and if IE gets tabbed browsing I'll probably switch back. Having my web browser use 200 megs of ram is just insane.

Here's one source

Presumably they are happy to take a loss because the buyers can't then jump to satellite easily...

Anyway, the 6208 (and presumably it's higher-end brother, the 6400 both allow direct recording to a firewire port, al though one reviewer said it just wouldn't work for PC, only Mac). of the post-decryption bitstream.

Found some info here...

Digital Home Canada

Rogers cable is coming out with a Scientific Atlanta PVR by the end of the year.

You could also build a PVR yourself as mentioned in an earlier post.

More discussion here.