Telus TV

[BMW Rider]

I have Telus TV too, we've been with them for a little over a year now with no issues at all. We have three TVs, each with its own box. The downside is that to get the third set, we had to pass on HD. It does depend on the signal strength at your house too, ours is very strong according to the installer who set it up.

I have an aquaintance who is a director with Telus in Networking. He indicated that Telus will soon be able to supply as many as six boxes and HD to a customer. His timeline for this to start rolling out was very soon, likely February or March. He indicated that current customers would be getting the upgrades first.

[Piscez]

Actually Telus TV just launched Microsoft Mediaroom
Record shows from up to six TVs in the home with a single Personal Video Recorder (PVR)
Watch and record three programs simultaneously, with up to two in High Definition (HD)
Replay, pause, fast forward and rewind recorded shows on any TV in the home
Connect TELUS TV on up to six TVs
Experience picture-in-picture channel browsing and instant channel changes
Plan TV viewing easily and quickly with the new Interactive Programming Guide
Combine High Speed Plus with our new TELUS TV service and surf twice as fast as with regular High Speed

I have Telus Satellite TV which is same a Bell ExpressVu, yes Bell and Telus partnered up on this and the 3G+ cellular network

[sphelps]

Not sure on telus but sasktel probably runs a similar system, appears to come through the phone line but I believe it's actually fiber-optics and then cat5 through the home. With current setups in older neighborhoods service is slow but as things get upgraded it's suppose to be way faster than coax cable. They say it's the future but it's still new technology. Not sure how much truth there is to that but that's what the install guys keep saying.

However sasktel sucks! Crappy PVR box, service always crashes, and internet is substantially slower than promised. Cost isn't exactly that great either. Plan on ditching the whole system in the short future. Shaw however isn't much better IMO.

Originally Posted by sphelps

Not sure on telus but sasktel probably runs a similar system, appears to come through the phone line but I believe it's actually fiber-optics and then cat5 through the home. With current setups in older neighborhoods service is slow but as things get upgraded it's suppose to be way faster than coax cable. They say it's the future but it's still new technology. Not sure how much truth there is to that but that's what the install guys keep saying.

However sasktel sucks! Crappy PVR box, service always crashes, and internet is substantially slower than promised. Cost isn't exactly that great either. Plan on ditching the whole system in the short future. Shaw however isn't much better IMO.

Sask Tel uses a similar system as Telus they are testing the fiber to a active filter at present. Thier system works better than the one Telus is using, Telus was going to go with the same system you can have up to 3 TV's with Sack Tel I believe I'll check on that and up date.

Bill

[globaldesigns]

My friend tried it because it was free to start. He is an audiophile, he returned it quite quickly, said it was junk. Said Shaw had a better picture.

Personally I don't have it. One of my good friends works for Telus, installing this stuff. Of course he has it... It looks good to me when I am over there.

There is nothing wrong with Telus TV the quality is just as good as Shaw and no worse than Shaw. They both use digital systems so there is no real difference in picture quality comming out of the converter box. The TV it self may interprit the signal differently and produce a pricture that is different. When I was installing MTS TV we had to setup the picture controls on alot of the TV's as the were out a bit as the TV was interpriting the signal it was getting differently from the other provider.

Bill

[StirCrazy]

If telus runs there tv setup like there phone set up run fast and hard. I will never have another telus product as long as I live excluding a cell phone and if shaw gets into the cell market I will switch that also. but that is because of some underhanded things telus did to me about 10 years ago. one thing I do not like about Telus is there is no such thing as free. if you have a problem you pay for the service call, where with shaw it is all free. I just had shaw over in the fall. they did 3 calls, one to hook up my services, one to rewire my whole house and one to replace the wire from the road to my house. what did it cost me.. nothing. the only reason these things needed to be done is it was original 40 year old wires in my house as the previous owners only had basic cable so there were no problems. I come along and get HD digital cable, internet and shaw phone so some upgrading was required. last time I had tellus out to fix something they charged me 120 for a 1 hour service call.

Steve

[globaldesigns]

Originally Posted by bvlester

There is nothing wrong with Telus TV the quality is just as good as Shaw and no worse than Shaw. They both use digital systems so there is no real difference in picture quality comming out of the converter box. The TV it self may interprit the signal differently and produce a pricture that is different. When I was installing MTS TV we had to setup the picture controls on alot of the TV's as the were out a bit as the TV was interpriting the signal it was getting differently from the other provider.

Bill

Actually Shaw is not completely digital. Some of there channels are still analog, and if you cancel or reactivate them, they still have to go to the box outside your house/neighbourhood to actual remove the filter from the line, or add it if you cancel. I know this from experience.

These analog channels run through the digital cable box, but are not digital sound or picture.

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by globaldesigns

Actually Shaw is not completely digital. Some of there channels are still analog, and if you cancel or reactivate them, they still have to go to the box outside your house/neighbourhood to actual remove the filter from the line, or add it if you cancel. I know this from experience.

These analog channels run through the digital cable box, but are not digital sound or picture.

ya thats your tear 1, 2 and 3. all the rest are digital or HD it would be stupid to go 100% digital as if some one only wants tear 1,2 and 3 they don't need a special box so all they need is there tv and they are good to go. so only 1 remote, and 1 piece of equipment to run. I know from the elderly inlaws this was a saviour as I had to explain about 3 times a week how to use the VCR/DVD but never had to explain how to watch tv.

Steve