BEV Carried a Superbowl Channel with US Ads - No Kind Words?

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I live in Toronto and PVR'd the OTA broadcast from Buffalo so Bell was still helpful for me. I got the PVR capability and the U.S. broadcast although in a slightly different fashion.

see my thread on this!
 
I posted my kudos in the simsub thread in the sport programming section. Glad to see that Bell was able to do this for us this year and that it was announced before the fact to avoid channel hopping during the game. I know it enhanced our Superbowl experience immensely... get 10 happy drinking adults in a room together and put on some moderately humorous commercials and lots of laughter...!

I hope for next year they change the "plans for a future OTA transmitter" part of the understanding because theoretically every CTV across the country could come forward and claim they have development plans so should be simsubbing.
 
Yea, I would have to be careful, as I wouldn't want to go out of LeafTV territory into Sens land....
I guess I should invest in an antenna, to pick up the OTA feed
 
I live close enough to the CN Tower to receive the CTV OTA but too far from Buffalo to receive FOX OTA, so thanks for nothing, Bell. As for CTV, what a pitiful broadcast. In addition to the crappy production engineering that others have mentioned, I've never seen the same set of commercials and programming promotions so many times in a 3.5 hour period. Their entire advertising department should be canned.
 
I would like to add my big THANK YOU to Bell as well for the non-simsubed feed. It was very much appreciated in my house. :D

As for all other times of the year, I could care less whether I watch US or Canadian commercials because I actually ignore them by changing channels or skipping forward :p

Can someone answer these questions.
1. Why doesn't Bell just the simsub the commercials?
2. When multiple feeds are showing the same program, why doesn't Bell choose the best feed and give it full bandwidth and just virtually map all the channels to the one 'superior' feed?
Surely these can't be that difficult to do.
 
All I know is that I was really happy to see the "un sim-subbed" version of the SuperBowl...thanks Bell
 
Whoopee... Does that make up for the thousands of other shows they butchered with poorly done simsubs?! It's obvious they didn't even have the right equipment until very recently. They still mess it up by starting and ending many simsubs too late, causing loss of programming. I guess that's Ok with the CRTC. After all, losing the first or last 3 minutes of of a 1 hr show fits into their 5% rule. :eek:

Also... Maybe there are interesting ads in shows other than The Superbowl... IMHO, simsubs should be done the same way that *C does them. If that requires equipment replacement, a new satellite or an extra satellite at 72.5, so be it.
 
Deleted some posts. We have a thread for discussing the simsubs on CTV so please lets use it.

Let me also quote from our What is a troll and what is trolling? thread



We respect peoples opinions, both for and against, provided they are posted in a respectful manner.
 
I didn't even know there was another channel offered, My receiver is set to List 2 so I wouldn't have seen it. I Can't stand the simsubing sometime's it's good other times it's terrible, If I want to tune to CTV I would do so, I pay for Fox and NBC etc. we should have a choice, Simsubbing blows and with any luck not exist one day ( probably will remain... Damn.)
 
I think it comes down to desire & effort on BEv's part. I don't see why they couldn't do it from a technical point of view. The 8 extra channels would be available only to those outside of Toronto/Vancouver much like Leafs-TV is only available to those within the Leafs region. The actual US feed would always be available on those 8 channels. The existing 8 channels would be available nationally and would always be a remap of either the US feed or a Canadian feed when there's a simsub.

It would cost them extra bandwidth only during a Canadian simsub, since at present they're not carrying the US feed, though that's really not "extra" bandwidth in the sense of another full-time channel. It's extra only in the sense that their bandwidth requirement doesn't decrease during a simsub due to temporarily having fewer unique feeds.

It would get complicated if a few of the simsub-requesting Canadian networks put up digital OTA transmitters in other cities (that'll be the day :rolleyes:), but the rest of them didn't. What would BEv do about the subscribers in that city, since for some shows they'd be entitled to the US feed but for others the Canadian network would have simsub rights?

The present situation with Global is also messy since they've been temporarily granted digital simsub rights based on their plans to eventually begin OTA transmission in Toronto. Those rights expire this June I believe if Global doesn't get their act together and start transmitting, so you can bet they'll be highly motivated to get something operational.
 
It was apreciated here. Although other than the couple of e-trade ads, this years crop of commercials were pretty sad IMHO...
 
It was appreciated here. Although other than the couple of e-trade ads, this years crop of commercials were pretty sad IMHO...
 
I live in Mississauga, my billing shows that.. I had the US feed ch 807 on my guide 2 days before , it showed if you see this channel you can watch US version of superbowl with american ads. I normally have a custom fav list that omits all the channels I don't get, all the ppv etc, but I saw on this site about the adding of Nat Geo HD and ShowHD so I went to all channels and right away saw the US feed listed...

My Uncle and cousins living out west and out east, didn't see the channel listed... BEV never does things uniformly... oh well, I saw and appreciated but it wasn't the end all be all years of anticipation suggested...
 
I too live in Mississauga and I did NOT see either 807 or 808 list in my All Channels guide. :(
 
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