[wildrosegirl]

bootlegga bootlegga:

I must be missing something - how is the tiny Canadian market critical to whether or not The Walking Dead (or any other show on AMC) gets made? Is Viacom (which owns Comedy Central in the US) really going to stop making the Daily Show if Rogers can't bundle Comedy Network with a bunch of other crappy channels up here?

Is our market of 35 million people that influential when compared to the US market of 300+ million?

I doubt it - there are lots of shows that get cancelled that are popular in Canada but not south of the border.

Sounds like total BS to me...

Bingo.

Just another US business trying to bully the Canadian system into doing it their way, or taking the hiway. They can keep their shit channels. There's absolutely nothing worth watching on them anyway.

[Canadian_Mind]

uwish uwish:

There are MANY Canadians that have dropped most cable services other than the internet entirely. I am close to following suit with that idea, I am tired of big TV telling us what WE should watch.

This is me.

My girlfriend and I use Netflix all the time. The only pain is that everything isn't available.

What I would like to see is something that is exactly like cable, but over the web itself and you select what you want. Just punch in the URL, and after initial setup it takes you to the equivalent of your tv guide (with the channels you've already chosen), and you just brows to your channel (history, sports, etc) and it's yours.

Is that a good idea or a terrible one?