Bell Expressvu HD quality

[311Man]

Just wondering what the quality is of BEV HD? I've read a lot of threads about D* and "HD Lite" and picture quality on HD. Does BEV HD fall in that same category where they tamper with the HD picture?

 

[Digital Dude]

Evu has better PQ than Direc. I posted in one of the numerous threads in the DirecTV Fourm about a side by side.

http://www.satelliteguys.us/showthread.php?t=77318&page=10

Since I've side by side on a 56" JCV HD-ILA, Evu wins hands down.

 

[Inno]

That's good to hear (as an Exp. Vu subscriber) but I've noticed that since the early HD days, things seem to have gotten progressively worse even for Express-Vu. Not all the channels are created equal and I believe the PQ used to be much better. There's not too much on there that'll make me say "wow".

 

[digiblur]

I'm not a sub...so I'm just repeating what I've heard from a few others around the net.

Most of the programming BellVu runs is 1280X720P. I haven't heard anyone complain about the PQ quality of their HD so I guess no news is good news.

 

[Inno]

I guess I really don't have anything to compare it with.......I'd love to have a DVB card and video card with HD output but that's not in my budget at the moment. I'm sure someone on here must have ExpressVu HD and a FTA HD setup to compare.

 

[digiblur]

I guess I really don't have anything to compare it with.......I'd love to have a DVB card and video card with HD output but that's not in my budget at the moment. I'm sure someone on here must have ExpressVu HD and a FTA HD setup to compare.

There's no comparison to some of the broadcast quality HD that you see FTA at 35mbps. You'll never see that on consumer satellite.

 

[Inno]

That's what I hear..........makes me drool just thinking about it.........just seems like such a waste for all those people that have spent their hard earned money for a HDTV and they're not even getting the total experience. I've heard customers ask "why did I just spend $X,000 on this thing?". The industry is not doing itself a favour if you ask me in providing "watered down" HD. We live in a "good enough" society where the majority want more, not better. But that's a topic for another forum............and I know it's already being discussed.

 

[digiblur]

That's what I hear..........makes me drool just thinking about it.........just seems like such a waste for all those people that have spent their hard earned money for a HDTV and they're not even getting the total experience. I've heard customers ask "why did I just spend $X,000 on this thing?". The industry is not doing itself a favour if you ask me in providing "watered down" HD. We live in a "good enough" society where the majority want more, not better. But that's a topic for another forum............and I know it's already being discussed.

The spectrum isn't there for 30mbps HD channels.

 

[RVD420]

A 30 mbps HD channel would takeup almost a whole TP on expressvu.
They are still using QPSK on the TPs.

A little while back NBCE HD was ITC on 82w.

Came in at about 16 Mbps at 1920 x 1080