Analog Cable will NEVER be in this format.
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Having worked for a large Canadian cable company for the last two years, I can tell you with 100% certainty that this will NEVER happen until everything is digital. The way land-based analog cable (First 60 or so channels - everything you can get without a box) currently works is through a filtering system that works like this:
You order all the channels : no filters
You order a bundel with packs 1 and 2 and basic: the reminaing channels (pack 3) are filtered off.
You only want basic: You get all four filters.
These filters are done AT YOUR HOME (Inside the Grey CSE's on the side of your houses, in a PED, or on a drop line from an antenna. Each of these filters costs about 5 bucks a piece. So that means at 60 channels, if you only choose to watch CBC, Space and MTV, they have put 57 filters costing about $285 (Cdn. Dollars).
Not only is it a cost issue, but these things are pretty inaccurate and can only get a range of channels properly. So if you were selling channel by channel, odds are if you bought one channel, they would have to give you 2 or 3 channels free in order to be able to receive that one channel.
Another problem is actually installing the things, working with four color coded filters is a breeze. Working with 60 different filters is going to create some problems.
Anyways, there's some insite into the cable industry for ya. Until they get a digital box in every home, this will not happen.
This will not get canned that easy. On the bottom of page 4, about some of the limitations of the board:
"The Board must certify a tarrif and set a levy. Those who own the rights of sound recordings of musical works... are entitled to be remunerated for private copies. No purpose is served by asking the Board to reject the tarrif as a whole"
Bascially, the only thing that can be argued is the amound of the levy
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Having worked for a large Canadian cable company for the last two years, I can tell you with 100% certainty that this will NEVER happen until everything is digital. The way land-based analog cable (First 60 or so channels - everything you can get without a box) currently works is through a filtering system that works like this: You order all the channels : no filters You order a bundel with packs 1 and 2 and basic: the reminaing channels (pack 3) are filtered off. You only want basic: You get all four filters. These filters are done AT YOUR HOME (Inside the Grey CSE's on the side of your houses, in a PED, or on a drop line from an antenna. Each of these filters costs about 5 bucks a piece. So that means at 60 channels, if you only choose to watch CBC, Space and MTV, they have put 57 filters costing about $285 (Cdn. Dollars). Not only is it a cost issue, but these things are pretty inaccurate and can only get a range of channels properly. So if you were selling channel by channel, odds are if you bought one channel, they would have to give you 2 or 3 channels free in order to be able to receive that one channel. Another problem is actually installing the things, working with four color coded filters is a breeze. Working with 60 different filters is going to create some problems. Anyways, there's some insite into the cable industry for ya. Until they get a digital box in every home, this will not happen.
This will not get canned that easy. On the bottom of page 4, about some of the limitations of the board:
... are entitled to be remunerated for private copies. No purpose is served by asking the Board to reject the tarrif as a whole"
"The Board must certify a tarrif and set a levy. Those who own the rights of sound recordings of musical works
Bascially, the only thing that can be argued is the amound of the levy