SATELLITE TV IN VANCOUVER

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When satellite television first hit the market, home dishes were expensive metal units that took up a huge chunk of yard space. In these early years, only the most die-hard TV fans would go through all the hassle and expense of putting in their own dish. Satellite TV was a lot more difficult than broadcast and cable TV.

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Today, you see compact satellite dishes perched on rooftops all over the Canada. Drive through rural areas beyond the reach of the cable companies and you'll find dishes on just about every house.

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In Canada, the two legal Satellite TV services available are Bell Canada's ExpressVu, and StarChoice.

The CRTC has refused to license American satellite TV services, but nonetheless hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of Canadians access or have accessed American Satellite TV services - usually these services have to be billed to an American address and are paid for in U.S. dollars.

Whether Satellite TV activity is grey market or black market is the source of often heated debate between those who would like greater choice and those who argue that the protection of Canadian firms and Canadian culture is more important.

Canadian satellite TV providers continue to be plagued by the black market devices which pirate or tale their satellite TV signals as well as by a number of otherwise completely lawful devices which can be reprogrammed to receive pirate Satellite TV.

One cable TV CEO (Karl Péladeau of Québecor, which owns Vidéotron) is on public record as demanding conditions be placed on the CRTC license issued to Bell ExpressVu, due to BEV's reputation for vastly inferior security compared to its cable rivals and Shaw Cable-owned StarChoice.

Although there are no official statistics, the use of American satellite TV services in Canada appears to be declining as of 2004. Some would claim that this is probably due to a combination of increasingly aggressive police enforcement and an unfavourable exchange rate between the Canadian and U.S. currencies. As the U.S. dollar has been declining as of 2005 versus other international currencies, the decline in Direc Satellite TV viewership in Canada may well be related not to a cost difference as much as to the series of smart card swaps which have rendered the first three generations of DirecTV access cards (F, H and HU) all obsolete.