On March 20, 2010 at 12:00, Anthony said...
agree, it looks like he wants things to change just for the sake of changing them.
1) there is no such thing as too much BW, so why go from 6 to 3,who knows what the future will hold what if they start broadcasting in 4k instead of 1080p? and there are sub channels and nothing says the two networks sharing a channel need to be related so if you only need 3MW you can add an other service (here 44.1 is Fox and 44.2 is CW). Plus less compression is always good)
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2) he talks about changing the Channel numbers, but there is a reason there are virtual and real channel numbers, the reason being that most people tend to know/remember channel # and not the callsign or letters, Most people don't tend to think CBS (network) even less WCAX (needed to look it up) but 3 (old channel number/ virtual number), it now moved to 22(real channel number) that used to be ABC. So why recreate the new numbers when they are for the most part useless?
now don't get me wrong, if it was possible to have one standadr for the world, then good. But the issue with that is that everyone completely changes or people get annoyed because why should theuy change more then others.
The virtual channel numbers with multiple parts are going to really confuse the average person. There is also the fact that there are fewer physical channels. What this means is that of the 44 channel positions we have, 38 if you did drop VHF, means that long established channels will have their own space, while new channels do not and need to band together to try and get a channel. Where this falls apart is if you have 44 established channels in a crowded market and new stations want to come on stream, there is no space for them. Established channels don't need to permit sub channels, so additional channels may not be possible.
In Toronto there are 2 sets of channels that should really be sub-channels, CBC and Omni. In the case of CBC we have English Language CBLT and French Langage CBLFT. In analog they are seperate channels ( 5 and 25) in digital they are 20 that maps to 5-1 and 26 which maps to 25-1. Omni has Omni 1 and Omni 2, again they are two separate and distinct digital channels. The Toronto market isn't that crowded, at least not at the moment.
