I'm in Thornhill. I bought an HVR-1600 about a month ago and had absolutely no luck trying to get either WinTV or the new version of GBPVR to see any QAM channels, even though I had the 74021 version with the QAM hardware and the proper beta drivers. So just to make sure I wasn't imagining things, I did just what bwiz2k3 did today—plugged a coax straight into the TV instead of through the set-top box and scanned for channels.

Aside from the On Demand channels and the music channels, everything appears black. The TV is registering a signal (other channels not found during the scan say there's no signal) so I'm guessing they're now encrypted channels. If my experiences with the tuner card are any indication, the blackout has been going on for a while now (though I can't say for certain because the tuner card didn't pick up the On Demand channels either, so who knows).