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calling all rogers High Def customers

itsme
10-26-2008, 12:19 PM
I have been having quite a bit of quality issues with my High Def channels...Pixies, freezing and lost of audio
the cable company i subscribe to says they get the signal from Rogers and this is why there is a problem??
I am just wondering if you guys have these same problems?
your help is much appreciated

ah802
10-27-2008, 11:50 AM
I can attest to the bad PQ Rogers delivers on their HD services and enjoy the best OTA at no cost! I visited a Rogers store and previewed the HD channels they deliver, and at best you could call them DVD ready if it wasn't for the pixel break-ups which are a result of their satellite downloads...at least that was what I was told. humm, so if they get their programming through dish, why buy cable.. especially second hand?

Rogers has eviscerated programming of the local braodcasting TV station CITYTV and I'm almost 100% that this move is subterfuge, meant to make the lower end analog channel unpalatable, so many will be forced into digital boxes and high paid services. Rogers is rumored to pull the analog next year to bulk subscribers, and force a huge decoder box sale. Right now my analog cable is so bad that OTA anything is better than the paid service.

itsme
10-27-2008, 11:54 AM
I can attest to the bad PQ Rogers delivers on their HD services and enjoy the best OTA at no cost! I visited a Rogers store and previewed the HD channels they deliver, and at best you could call them DVD ready if it wasn't for the pixel break-ups which are a result of their satellite downloads...at least that was what I was told. humm, so if they get their programming through dish, why buy cable.. especially second hand?


Thank you for your response...I agree, if they are getting the signal from a dish, why pay the extra costs for cable, maybe i should look at Bell express vu of others..

anyone else got some ideas or suggestions on HD quality et c...
thanks so Much

ah802
10-27-2008, 12:28 PM
Here's another reason to dump cable... One subscriber woke up to this picture on his set after enjoying HD for many moons.

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/2635/10262008201wh5.jpg

Rogers no longer supports HDMI without HDCP and this will soon be coming to a cable provider near you.

nikkibk
11-01-2008, 10:30 PM
Switch to Bell.

They have lanched a new Ambassador program that is giving away free HD receivers, free installation, and free programming if you do a survey online.

You just have to sign up for at least a min monthly package ($35). But they don't lock you in or anything. You don't like it-you can get out of it.

I started a new thread-all the info is there.

N

ah802
11-02-2008, 09:46 AM
Switch to Bell.

They have lanched a new Ambassador program that is giving away free HD receivers, free installation, and free programming if you do a survey online.

You just have to sign up for at least a min monthly package ($35). But they don't lock you in or anything. You don't like it-you can get out of it.

I started a new thread-all the info is there.

NThanks for the message, finally a nice incentive... to bad I don't have a window to one of the satellites, $35 is a great price for HD media.

nikkibk
11-02-2008, 11:31 AM
are you in a high rise apartment?

ah802
11-02-2008, 02:10 PM
are you in a high rise apartment?Low rise... facing north, great for a painter and not much else.

mfabien
11-03-2008, 06:14 AM
I have been having quite a bit of quality issues with my High Def channels...Pixies, freezing and lost of audio
the cable company i subscribe to says they get the signal from Rogers and this is why there is a problem??
I am just wondering if you guys have these same problems?
your help is much appreciated

If you have problems with CBCHD, CTVHD, TSNHD and other Canadian HD channels, then you could have a signal problem with Rogers cable. If your PQ is limited to the US channels, the problem originates with the source providers which are all in Buffalo NY.

Satellite would give you a better picture for US channels but the dish antenna would need to be facing south, not north.