Talk:Digital television in Canada

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Following this article, and list of tv channels, I experimented with setting up my ATSC TV to tune in digital channels. I found that when you tune to the "real" digital channel, say 20.1 for CBC Toronto, the television displays a different channel, 5. It appears that the broadcasts identify themselves with the analog-side channel in the local area, CBLT analog is on channel 5. Is this common to all digital TV's, or just my set? If this is common to all televisions, it seems some clarifying text would be helpful, especially in the list of stations article. Maury Markowitz (talk) 16:59, 7 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The use of a virtual channel numbering scheme is part of the ATSC standard; for most digital stations, this will mean that their (former) analogue channel numbers appear in their logos, subchannel numbering, product branding and identification long after they've gone digital-only and abandoned these frequencies. WWTI, for instance, is prone to filling the vacant space in any pillarboxed video with a dozen "abc 50" logos, even though digitally they're on UHF DT21 and their former UHF 50 frequency is now vacant here.
Perhaps there's some explanation in one of the existing articles which you could re-use? --66.102.80.212 (talk) 15:27, 21 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Callsigns[edit]

(moved from 'History' section of article, not sure if this should be re-inserted somewhere else)

With the -TV suffix and callsign usage beginning to be more uncommon for usage in Canada (for example, CFTO-TV is IDed as CTV Toronto), it is likely for the -TV suffix to be discontinued on Canadian TV stations (especially CBC and Radio-Canada stations) during the transition and continue usage of the -DT suffix on digital stations. This was a similarity for U.S. TV stations continuing to use the -TV suffix on some stations after the digital transition and discontinuing the -DT suffix for good. However, some American TV stations use the -DT suffix (e.g. the Univision stations). [citation needed]

What exactly is the criteria for change-over to digital TV ?[edit]

What exactly is the criteria that requires a local TV market to change over to ATSC (digital) broadcasting?

London Ontario, for example, is served by only 1 TV station that "originates" local content, yet it is listed as one of the markets that must switch to ATSC broadcasting in August 2011. Can anyone explain why? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.10.130.47 (talk) 20:41, 22 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

London is a market with over 300,000 people, so therefore all stations in the London market must transition to digital.  єmarsee  • Speak up! 00:14, 23 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I believe the criteria were any of over-300000 population, more than one local originating station or a provincial capital are mandatory markets.

TVO and digital subchannel numbering[edit]

"TVOntario had to relocate three transmitters, in Chatham, ON, Belleville, ON, and Cloyne, ON to lower channels because they were on channels above 52, which had to be vacated by August 31, 2011. In addition to relocating these transmitters to lower channels, the transmitters have been converted to digital but are currently not broadcasting HDTV nor an on-screen PSIP programme guide."

I note that the tables had these with channel numbering like "CICO-DT-53 UHF 26 (53.1 TVO)". What I've actually been seeing (when the signal comes in, which is rare as these are 15kW digital LPTV's) is that that's "RF 26.1" with no other PSIP info. I've changed Belleville to reflect the "26.1" but have left the others alone for lack of any way to verify that the other two are following this same pattern. --66.102.83.61 (talk) 20:32, 5 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the move request was: Moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) SITH (talk) 11:23, 22 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]


Digital terrestrial television in Canada → Digital television in Canada – In 2016, User:Nick Mitchell 98 moved this page for consistency with other articles. However, the result does not reflect usage. Like in the US (see Talk:Digital television in the United States for that RM), usage of the term "digital terrestrial" is practically nonexistent in Canada. A search for "digital terrestrial" on cbc.ca brought up two results, both about other countries. This is the only other article title in this set where I sense a WP:ENGVAR problem and suggest a move. Raymie (t • c) 07:46, 15 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

  • Support for same reasons as the recent U.S. article move. Rreagan007 (talk) 21:33, 15 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. The original idea behind "terrestrial" being present in some of the article titles was to distinguish OTA transmission from digital cable — but while this article doesn't touch on cable as much as its US sibling does, it's not entirely lacking in cable-related content either. Even the analog→digital switchover, as important as it is for us to cover somewhere, should really be contextualized in a broader article rather than standing alone as its own thing — and its broader context, by definition, has to include at least a bit of content about cable distribution as well. The category is straddling the line, with some titles including the word "terrestrial" and others not, so standardization may be a valid goal here — but it should really have involved the "digital terrestrial television" articles being moved to "digital television", rather than vice versa. Bearcat (talk) 18:32, 16 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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it's now year 2020, can we edit to past-tense?[edit]

wondering if some of the content here that says "XXX *will* convert by 2016" can be revised to *did*, by simple correction of tense. The downside is that someorg *may have not* converted to DTV.

thoughts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wumba (talk • contribs) 04:52, 25 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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