Bell's HD future??

[DrAkO_1982]

Hi everyone,

I'm a customer for Bell Express Vu and i'm a little bit anxious about add new stuff...

Bell has promised to add 3 new HD frenchs channels (TVA HD, TQS HD and RDS HD), but, all the TP are full, where Bell could put these new HD channel ?

Bell need's to add Showcase HD, National Geographic HD, MMore HD, The Score HD to keep and attract customers and to stay competitive against Rogers, SC and Videotron (in Quebec).

What's the strategy for Bell about adding new HD channels ?

 

[Mr Tony]

broke off other thread

Bell will be changing to MPEG4 soon so they will have room then

 

[DrAkO_1982]

They will change soon but they don't planned to use MPEG 4 before 2009.

Only compatible MPEG 4 receivers would be available fall this year.

 

[Mr Tony]

they'll probably start changing...just like SC is doing soon.

So to get all the HD channels you'll have to upgrade

 

[DrAkO_1982]

I buy a 9200 2 months ago...

Thanks for the great news...

What's Bell have to do on satellite to change to MPEG 4 ???

I just can't see how Bell could switch to MPEG 4 as fast as you think !!

 

[Mr Tony]

why not?

All they have to do is change the transponder from QPSK MPEG2 to 8PSK MPEG4...that takes what 10 minutes to do? Dish does it rather quickly

The issue right now is they are not using all the TP's on 82...9, 15, 19 are not used and 23 & 30 have one channel...very easily to move them to other transponders and change those 2 TP's to MPEG 4...voila 8 channel capacity (MPEG2 is 2-3 max)

 

[SJ44]

Accoding to my receiver, on 82, only 15 has no signal tonight

 

[digiblur]

Plenty of room on 82W to add a few things.

 

[DrAkO_1982]

Yeah but i read on the Internet on satellite 82, 3 TP are not allowed to Bell...

So they just need to wait for MPEG 4 receivers and switch all HD TP to MPEG 4...and lose all HD customers...

 

[digiblur]

Yeah but i read on the Internet on satellite 82, 3 TP are not allowed to Bell...

So they just need to wait for MPEG 4 receivers and switch all HD TP to MPEG 4...and lose all HD customers...

They aren't going to just flip a switch and shut off all the customers. Just like Dish, they will slowly ease into the migration.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

The first thing they should do is flip the HD to 8PSK, that will open up room for them.

 

[DrAkO_1982]

The HD receivers that Bell actually sell are compatible with 8PSK ???

 

[Oilers]

The HD receivers that Bell actually sell are compatible with 8PSK ???

6100 and 9200 are. 6000 would need to be upgraded.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Replace the 6000's with MPEG4 receivers, and flip all HD to 8PSK, this will give them lots of time to move over to MPEG4.

 

[digiblur]

The first thing they should do is flip the HD to 8PSK, that will open up room for them.

Yep... I'm surprised they haven't done the switch already. Last year they did some 8PSK testing on one TP but that's all that happened.

How long ago did Dish make their HD migration to 8PSK?

I'm wondering if there is signal issues in some parts of Canada that prevent them from switching to 8PSK.

Even if they only flipped 10 TP's to 8PSK, they would gain around 100 mbps of bandwidth. You can fit a good bit of MPEG2 HD in that space.

 

[Ramy]

Does Bell have any Mpeg-4 capable receivers yet?

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Not yet, they are waiting for the 722 to be released.

 

[DrAkO_1982]

So a migration to 8PSK not cost a lot of money to Bell.

Maybe they could offer a rebate on MPEG 4 receivers to existing HD customers.

 

[digiblur]

So a migration to 8PSK not cost a lot of money to Bell.

Not sure... depends on how much the 8PSK modulators are at the uplink center to purchase, install, test, and support.

 

[Ramy]

Not yet, they are waiting for the 722 to be released.

When is this supposed to come out? I don't see any mention on the internet about it.