HD not so clear to Canadians

TORONTO – While high definition television offers the clearest, highest-quality TV picture available, Canadians’ want to see a more robust content and pricing picture before they commit, according to a report released today. Astral Media’s The Movie Network, one of the leaders of HD programming in Canada with its own all-HD movie channel launching today, commissioned survey company Ipsos-Reid to find out what Canadians know about HDTV and what they have in their homes. The survey found that * Only 14% of Canadians currently have an HD-ready television set. * Of those who have an HD-ready television set, more than half (54%) do not...