Bell to add six new HD Channels on June 10th

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Just checked and nothing here either on my 9200. I even did a check switch to ensure I had the latest guide info.
 
What possible value would there be in having the programming on either Food or HGTV in HD? The content (how to cook, how to fix your house) won't be one bit different.
 
This is a 16:9 source put in a 4:3 frame.
You could maybe do a full zoom to fill the screen.
 
When are they gonna add something GOOD. like Speed TV. or Animal Planet. or Food Network. Who cares about networks. i want good channels.
 
I agree. It's just Bell catering to Canadian OTA broadcasters and giving themselves an excuse to raise the price for digital basic. Adding these channels costs Bell next to nothing since they gained the extra bandwidth by switching to 8PSK, which they would need eventually anyway. I wonder if adding these "locals" ties into Bell's freesat proposal, yet another self serving move that also caters to Canadian broadcasters.
 
Wow, what a waste of new channels. If anything, hopefully they are broadcasted in 8PSK so we can see if there is any difference in quality. I wonder where these would go on the guide, or is there going to be another reshuffle.

Anyways, why they're a waste:

CBC Montreal HD - will only show the same programming as CBC Toronto HD. Only differences will be news and the occasional SD widescreen game on HNIC

CTV Calgary HD - besides local news, this will basically be the same programming as CTV Vancouver HD at the same time, no timeshift

Global Calgary HD - same as above

SunTV - do they even show anything in HD besides the NBA during the season?

SRC Ottawa
TV5 HD - can't really comment on these two, don't watch french channels. I would assume SRC Ottawa would be showing the same as SRC Montreal.
 
I agree about removing the SD stations, that is just a waste of space (which they don't have alot of) to carry 2 feeds of the same channel?! I don't see why they can't just down convert the HD feed to SD for those that don't have HD instead of carrying both SD & HD- this is technically possible I believe. Personally I say everytime a channel launches an HD feed they should discontinue the SD feed.

Regarding the HD channels, why is it that there are more French HD channels then English?! You just had another two launch- Evasion HD & TV5 HD. Where are the english specialties like Food Network, HGTV, Space, Comedy- I thought specialty channels were raking in the dough so why don't they want to launch any HD feeds of these supposed 'successful' services?! Compared to the US, Canadian broadcasters are a sorry, pathetic bunch riding the regulation coat tails of the CRTC. Almost ALL US specialty channels (including some Spanish) are now broadcasting in HD, in Canada the French specialties lead the way :eek:
 
Unfortunately, the CRTC does not agree. As a National Service, Bell (and Shaw Direct) agreed to service many folks in smaller communities with their OTA channels. It remains a requirement of license. Similar rules apply to cable on a regional basis.



FWIW, the figure is closer to 70%. At least, Bell recently said "more than" 25% of its customers have HD service.



Complain to CTVGlobeMedia and Canwest Global -- they own most of the speciality stations and can't be bothered to put some profits into an HD signal. A good deal of their content is shot in HD; they just don't supply satellite or cable companies with a signal. Space seems a total no-brainer to me; but apparently there are no plans.
 
I've got them now. Looks like a guide re-alignment will be needed for these. Why would they put one on channel 900!?

-Mike
 
Has anyone actually watched these channels? I know I haven't. Total waste of bandwidth if you ask me. :confused:


That's very cheap, lazy programming practices on the part of Sun. Rather than obtain an HD master, they take a letterboxed SD master and broadcast it on the HD channel. Global has a habit of doing this as well.
 
This is the transponder layout for 82. TP5 was the one being tested for 8PSK, but I can't tell if they're 8PSK or not with my equipment. Will have to wait for the uplink report.

TP5 - 872 SRC Ottawa HD
TP5 - 896 CBC Montreal HD
TP5 - 897 Sun TV HD
TP5 - 900 CTV Calgary HD

TP8 - 899 Global Calgary HD

TP24 - 864 TV5HD

-Mike
 
I absolutely have NOT watched nor will I ever watch the six HD channels launched on June 10:D
 
Today no longer have golf channel hd (853) on the epg. Anyone know if this was a freeview which has now ended? I am still on the grandfathered $10 HD package.
Thanks,
Robin
 
From the comparison article on DigitalHome here, it says that Rogers has CBC Newsworld and CNN on HD, while none of these on Bell. I don't have Rogers here out west, and not sure if Shaw has it or not, but still would like to see it on Bell.

HDTV has been out in the market for 10 years now, and not even 50% of the stations are in HD as we speak.

And no 1080 yet, of course.

Let's wait patiently as competitions aren't doing much better either. (or you can go OTA).
 
Channel 874 is showing this slide;

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