Quite a long time ago I spent some time talking about the not-so-good HD signal provided by Eastlink. Some days were good, some days were bad. Some channels were consistently good, some were consistently bad. I had called into Eastlink to inquire about the signal issues and they had mentioned at that time that my location had known issues, and that they were eventually going to solve the problems. I don’t really watch a lot of TV so, for some reason, I seemed to be ok with that.
Fast forward a whole big pile of time…
It has literally been months since I last had the HD TV on for actual viewing of HD television. If the TV is on at all these days, it’s because I’m playing a video game (I love Rock Band and Olivia loves Mario Kart) or, very rarely, I’m watching a movie.
Olivia fell asleep in our bed tonight (she had a very busy day). I wanted to see a bit of the hockey game, so I figured this was as good a time as any to turn on the big TV. I noticed all kinds of new HD channels. I haven’t really had any time to check them out, but it looks like there may be a couple of cool science/nature channels (Equator, Oasis, etc). I suspect it’s some sort of free-view happening and will be ending shortly.
The other thing I noticed, especially once I flipped over to CBC to watch the game, was that the signal quality was very good. CBC tends to be good, but their hockey broadcasts always seem to suffer from blocking problems on Eastlink. That really was not the case at all tonight. Yes, there was some very minor problems, but, for the most part, the signal quality was bordering on excellent.
I don’t know if I just caught everything on a good night or if Eastlink is finally starting to get its act together, but I look forward to testing out the signal quality again over the next few days, just to see.
Not that I’m likely to actually watch it or anything. Someone remind me why I’m paying for this? :)
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