Bell Full HD tour

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There were a large number of Bell Staff all wearing the obligatory Bell Jacket and Baseball cap, around 50 or so of them I believe plus the Management from Bell, another 15 to 20. Add into this another 20 Media Personel and a handfull of the Public and that was it for the people viewing.

Oh, and Hugh and I.....lol
 
Found the schedule:

Bell ExpressVu Full HD Tour Schedule

Venue/Event City Date

Harbour Square Park Toronto August 21
Harbourfront Centre Toronto August 22 & 23
C-Jazz Calgary August 28 & 29
PNE Vancouver September 1 & 2
West Edmonton Mall Edmonton September 5 & 6
Polo Park Mall Winnipeg September 9
TIFF Toronto September 13, 14 & 15
Cinefest Sudbury September 18 & 19
Georgian Mall Barrie September 21 & 22
Fairview Park Mall Kitchener September 24 & 25
Oakville Place Mall Oakville September 27
Dundas Square Toronto September 29 & 30
Ottawa Senators' Game Ottawa October 6
Rideau Street Ottawa October 8, 9 & 10
Les Remparts' Game Quebec City October 14

Watch for more dates to be added in the coming weeks.

From here: http://www.canadanewswire.com/en/releases/archive/August2007/21/c8931.html?view=print
 
Be careful Nimiq, I hope the CIA boys didnt follow you home, or plant a tracking device in the Skittles
So they could not answer your questions, or ignored you?
Was it a "no comment"
I'm picturing you with a Frank and Gordon T-shirt on, jamming hand fulls of Skittles into your mouth, waving your hand like a 5th grader when they would ask if anyone had any more questions, and after looking at you, and by you 4-5 times, still with your hand up, they would say, "Since there are no more questions people, we would like to thank you for coming out"
 
Yawn
Will I get a discount, seeing as Bell has been providing me with less than full HD?
I was paying for Full HD!
I would love to be at this release/Bell is great circle pat on the back-a-thon to mention that I have some questions to pose, after doing some research of my own at a little site called DHC...
I did notice a sign on the DVP saying something about Bell is the only one that offers Real HD, or something along those lines
If someone remembers what it says, could they refresh my memory?
 
You got more Skittles! Thats not fair!

I said to a guy I was with that, if Bell had of been smart, they would have canceled the stunt girl and guys in black and used the money to serve Hot coffee to the crowd!

They never had a "media presentation" where you could ask questions. Was Shannon even there?
 
What I read into this is that they are bleeding a bit and the firestorm of hatred towards them from savvy DHC readers has caught up with them and even if they wanted to advertise on DHC again, they would only expose potential subs to the truth about them.

Hugh, I think you should go and handout leaflets directing attendees to DHC so they can filter the hype and get to the God's honest truth.

How much does a few thousand leaflets and a plane to drop them cost anyways? :D

While they may think the timing is good as sales slump to all time lows, it's probably the worst possible time as any new subs 2 year contracts will be expiring and many if not most that fell for it will be choosing other providers about the time the new and costly birds and MPEG4 launch.

So while industry analysts have given Bev an 18 month lifespan, I'll be a little more generous and say 24 months from this Christmas.
 
Yes, I am in several of those shots....lol

Funny because it looked almost exciting on that clip.....lol
 
I think I asked all those questions after the "climax" of the event.

No Comment was the reply on, MPEG4 receivers, 8PSK, 72.5 degree location.

As for 1080p, no-one is broadcasting at this resolution to my knowledge and I doubt very much that Express Vu will.....

December is when MPEG4 "capable" receivers will be available, or slightly sooner but they will only be decoding MPEG2 data-streams until the time Express Vu are ready with Nimiq 5 and even then the change over will take months, even years.

I believe that using the term "Full HD" like this could backfire on Bell because from what I read almost all the TV Manufacturers are using it to describe 1080p, which is NOT what Express Vu are broadcasting, they don't even broadcast too much in 1080i, its mostly 720p.
 
from what i understand is that there will be a touring kiosk with different types of TV and - voila! bell HD.

Just an information station for people who've bought HDTVs and are running other things than HD on them

probably to clear out "old" stock before the Mpeg4 push ;)
 
So I guess this means they (Bell) won't be announcing any new MPEG 4 services or recievers till after this tour.
 
No broadcaster has 1080p AFAIK. It maxes out at 1080i. So no need for a satellite receiver doing 1080p. Then again ... my TV "outputs" 1080p only; but inputs max 1080i. So I get great HDNet "live signals" but still have the TV "re-convert" to p from i. You can't in.
 
It was a very productive morning as far as skittles go, 7 bags in total, even found some other chewy things too, but I digress.

A Hot Drink setup would have been perfect, it was chilly standing there for 20 minutes waiting for the "Big Event".

The off shore breeze was so strong that the wash from the Helicopter, some 75 to 100 feet out into the Harbor could not be felt.

I never saw Shannon at all and I was actually amazed that I saw NONE of the Managers of Express Vu's Home Services department that deal with Express Vu installations on a day to day basis.

With the exception of the 40' Container and a Full size panel Van behind, there were very few Express Vu logo's, they were all Bell.

Almost makes you think they could be dropping the Express Vu wording.....
 
Because when buying new TV, HD is included in the price. I've had my HDTV 1080i/720p DVI input for 4 years and no HD signal yet, just watching SD at resolution that highlight how crappy it is.

People are using the expansion mode on their TV and wondering why Rachel Ray/ Nigela Lawson/ Giada gained weight.

Bad analogy, a refrigerator is useless without being plugged in, but a HDTV works just fine with a SD signal and some even do a fine job upconverting the signal to 720p/1080i. Plus, with a good DVD player, the quality of an anamorphic wide screen movie is pretty darn good.
 
The round of applause was a Full HD 5 minutes AFTER the "Event" was over, the camera men wanted an atmosphere shot or two and asked us to applaud....lol
 
The 1080i to 1080p re-convert is not re-scaling just even/odd frame buffering. No picture degradation.
 
To each his own. I can't imagine how many $1000s a 1080i HDTV was at retail four years ago ... 2003. There was little broadcast HD back then and upconverting was not ubiquitous as it is now on DVD players. But for at least the last two years we've had a majority of mainstream content on network prime time in HD plus at least 15+ HD channels since the end of 2005 from major providers like Bell and Rogers.

And, to the point of the PR tour, at least you know you're not getting HD. Bell's message is the consumer has no idea and has to be edumacated.
 
I spoke to the PR agency and they say that no new products will be announced and that it is only to showcase existing Bell HD products.

The fact that they call it "Full HD" and the fact that it is a "countdown" makes me suspicious that this could be an announcement highlighting the transition to MPEG4.
 
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