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rsweet@cogeco.ca
03/18/2005
10:11 AM
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Dear Sir: I have just returned from Florida where the cable company was COMCAST. I knew that the US has a law that prevents copyrighting (scrambling) any signal which can be received over the air. I talked for about 20 minutes with an engineer at Comcast and he informaed me that they would be passing the major network HD signals through to their customers unscrambled. Canada does not have such a law.
Cogeco, my cable company, is transmitting over 100 digital carriers which my QUAM tuner picks up. I have put up a UHF antenna and I receive HDTV sporadically with the 8VSB tuner. I called Cogeco and asked them when they would be putting OTA digital channel 39-1 (CBS) on the digital cable channel 80-2 (CBS analog). They replied "We don't know what you are talking about". Many of the digital cable channels I receive produce a message that says "Digital Signal is Encrypted". I have written my Federal MP about this situation and she has passed my concerns on to the Minister of Industry under whose wing is the CRTC. I had previously contacted the CRTC about this signal highjacking and they replied that this was beyond their jurisdiction.
I urge everyone to write their MP or in a few years when you buy a TV set in Canada and connect it to your cable you will receive nothing until you get a descrambler from the all-powerful cable company.
Yours truly,
Bob Sweet
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