Currently using Telus for landline [HTML_REMOVED] internet, and their promo card looks like adding TV cable wouldn't be much more. Certainly cheaper than having a seperate TV cable connnection.
Anyone using it? Comments?
Currently using Telus for landline [HTML_REMOVED] internet, and their promo card looks like adding TV cable wouldn't be much more. Certainly cheaper than having a seperate TV cable connnection.
Anyone using it? Comments?
never used it but the whole contract thing scares me away.
may or may not be an issue for you, but the service needs a box per TV and can only support two TVs when last I looked into it.
Ohhhh so that's who those shaw attack ads are targeting. I totally forgot telus started to offer tv. I wrote it off after I heard no HD.
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I just got out of a contract after a little more than two years.
It sucked. Slow to respond to inputs like changing channels, pixelated picture, the converter or whatever it is called had a loud cpu fan and then there is Telus customer service.
I was told, because they effed up, that I could get out of the contract gratis but now they are trying to charge me $240.
Stay the hell away.
Thanks for the info Cam.
I just got out of a contract after a little more than two years.
It sucked. Slow to respond to inputs like changing channels, pixelated picture, the converter or whatever it is called had a loud cpu fan and then there is Telus customer service.
I was told, because they effed up, that I could get out of the contract gratis but now they are trying to charge me $240.
Stay the hell away.
hmm, seems to me that is a pretty key part of television one shouldn't mess up.
I was pretty close to going for a Telus bundle when I set up our new appt. The rep didn't call me back, so I went with Shaw.
From what I'm hearing, I sure am glad I went with Shaw. I've been happy with it so far.
Ohhhh so that's who those shaw attack ads are targeting. I totally forgot telus started to offer tv. I wrote it off after I heard no HD.
Caution - Doubly Biased Opinion. I work for TELUS _and _I worked on the TELUS TV project.:nerd:
I held off getting TELUS TV until the HD PVR was available. It was installed 2 weeks ago and I love it.
Image quality is great. Even SD looks sharper than I remember with analogue cable. The HD image is great. I wish more programs were broadcast in HD. As far as I know, all HD systems require a set top box.
We're a one tv household so the only restriction we notice is that the HD PVR has a single tuner. We can watch a recorded program while recording another, but we can't watch one channel while recording another. No word on when a dual tuner PVR will be available.
The program guide is great for seeing what programs are on now or coming up in the next week. Good episode descriptions. If you see something you like just press the red button and it will be recorded for you. Great for time shifting or late night movies, especially when you can record 160 hours of SD or 60 hours of HD. Record Lost from an eastern time zone station and view it when you like.
The biggest problem has been that there's too many channels to choose from. Daunting. Over 200 digital channels is just too daunting.:damn:
No dual-tuner?!?! Why bother?
I have to agree that the program guide on Telus TV is better and more detailed.
No idea of the picture quality, since my friends who have Telus TV are watching on some poor quality sets.
"The song of a bird…We used to ask Ennesson to do bird calls. He could do them. How he could do them, and when he perished, along with him went all those birds…"-Return from the Stars, Stanislaw Lem
"We just walk around, and sometimes we go out and dance, and then we listen to the environment."-Ralf Hutter, Kraftwerk
I just got out of a contract after a little more than two years.
It sucked. Slow to respond to inputs like changing channels, pixelated picture, the converter or whatever it is called had a loud cpu fan and then there is Telus customer service.
I was told, because they effed up, that I could get out of the contract gratis but now they are trying to charge me $240.
Stay the hell away.
Caution - Doubly Biased Opinion. I work for TELUS _and _I worked on the TELUS TV project.
Sorry to hear you had a negative experience, Cam. A noisy fan would drive me crazy. The new stb is perforated like swiss cheese and has no fan.
I think I signed up for 2 years. You have to watch contracts, especially if there's any chance you'll move out of the service area.
Image quality has been great for me, but switching channels will never be as fast as with analogue cable, something channel flippers need to know. I'm still new to the service, so instead of flipping through the 200 channels I press Guide and scroll through the list of what's on/coming up. Even then the list of channels was driving me nuts until I found out how to scroll a page at a time. (Don't tell my wife, but she taught me the page scroll.)
telus tv = STAY AWAY.
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