Bell Fibe or Rogers Digital

[bobistheowl]

How many channels do you actually watch?

Probably about 25, maybe 15 - 18 with any regular frequency, but quite a few of them are beyond the channel 60 range mentioned by james t kirk.

 

[lurkerdick]

Rogers is supposedly 2 years behind Bell and Telus (not a homo thing either)

 

[jiiimmm]

^^^That's laughable.

Or shows how dumb I am. (Paying the same as you for fuck all.) I've been a good Rogers customer. Always pay my fucking bills on time, never bitch about anything, never called them up once in 15 years. Just this last increase was finally the straw that broke the camel's back. That and frankly of the 60 channels that Rogers currently provides for me, at least 20 are fucking terrible. I mean the Home Shopping network?? Or the religous channels? Come on.

But you did raise one interesting problem.....

Does the Bell Fibe require those big stupid "cable boxes" as well too?? I have 1 TV in my kitchen that is crammed into a special opening, there is no room for any dumb box of any kind.

I'd like just a RG-8 wire coming into the back of my TV and that's it.

I currently have 2 TV's, but with plans for 2 more, maybe 3 more - but frankly only 2 of them will ever be on at one time.

Hey just like you, I was a loyal customer for the past 20 yrs. I had every intention to switch but they made me an offer I couldn't refuse. If they try to jack me next year, I'll happily switch.

 

[james t kirk]

Update to the thread.

I called up Bell. Their middle of the road package (239 channels of shit to choose from, choose from) plus TMN including the PVR and the two "boxes" was going to average out to be $86.40 over 2 years.

Then I called up Rogers.

Boy, they hemmed and hawed. First they offered me their VIP package plus TMN for 74 a month including the boxes. But the package was about 150 channels of shit to choose from. So I prodded them into their Ultimate plus TMN, including all boxes and they gave me a price for $83.00 a month for one year.

Sold.

(Now, I had the guy repeat, and repeat again - bottom line - $83.00 (not including HST) and the only thing added to that to be tax. I am still skeptical that there won't be some hidden fucking fee in there.)

So we'll see how it goes.


Keep in mind that I'm currently paying 65 (not including HST) a month for fuck all.

 

[lurkerdick]

Add
1. Digital service fees
2. CRTC LPIF Fee

 

[Flying Dutchman]

I'm in a house in East York and would need two more stories to see the lake, but the 'oven-rack' OTA antenna just higher tan my roof gets me 18 channels.

I'm in mid-town Toronto, and even with just an indoor antenna sitting on my bookshelf beside the TV, I get 8 reliably clear OTA digital channels (7 useful, 1 French CBC) for free. Good enough for me.

 

[jiiimmm]

Update to the thread.

I called up Bell. Their middle of the road package (239 channels of shit to choose from, choose from) plus TMN including the PVR and the two "boxes" was going to average out to be $86.40 over 2 years.

Then I called up Rogers.

Boy, they hemmed and hawed. First they offered me their VIP package plus TMN for 74 a month including the boxes. But the package was about 150 channels of shit to choose from. So I prodded them into their Ultimate plus TMN, including all boxes and they gave me a price for $83.00 a month for one year.

Sold.

(Now, I had the guy repeat, and repeat again - bottom line - $83.00 (not including HST) and the only thing added to that to be tax. I am still skeptical that there won't be some hidden fucking fee in there.)

So we'll see how it goes.


Keep in mind that I'm currently paying 65 (not including HST) a month for fuck all.

good job!

 

[Rockslinger]

Elementary question. How do they connect Fibe to your TV? Do they run a cable from your computer to your TV?

 

[james t kirk]

Elementary question. How do they connect Fibe to your TV? Do they run a cable from your computer to your TV?

Apparently Bell gives you a new modem.

The new modem connects to the phone line just like always, then wires into your cable system (RG-8 wiring) that runs throughout your house to your various TVs. Your computers come off the same modem just like always.

 

[LazMan]

Elementary question. How do they connect Fibe to your TV? Do they run a cable from your computer to your TV?

My first-hand experience is with TELUS TV, but I believe Bell Fibe's almost exactly the same...

There's a new 'gateway' modem installed, it has an 'Internet' port for your computer/router, and outputs over CoAx (MoCA) or Ethernet wiring to the STB's on the TV's... Ethernet's prefered, at least on the TTV installs, but is rarely an option in the real world...

The STB's then talk IP back to the gateway and to the head end, either over Ethernet directly, or MoCA across the co-ax...

 

[HaywoodJabloemy]

One important difference that I have not seen mentioned here yet is that Bell requires you to also subscribe to their internet service in order to receive their FibeTV service, while Rogers allows you to get their digital HD TV service without getting Rogers internet service.

Believe it or not, some time in the last three or four years I think, Bell actually cancelled the TV service of all their existing "TV For Condos" (the older non-satellite VDSL standard definition digital TV service FibeTV replaced) customers, if they refused to also buy Bell's internet service, even if the customers were willing to upgrade to FibeTV without getting Bell internet service. Rogers gladly accepted any Toronto customers Bell tried to force into taking their unwanted overpriced internet service, and gave them a free PVR for switching.