Bell Expressvu or Starchoice?

[barefooter]

Any opinions? Contractor wants to get the house wired up for satellite and I guess we need to make a decision.

We are out in the boonies and these seem to be our only options. We have had Starchoice for the past 9 years, and the service has been pretty good. Expressvu seems to have better hardware and the programming seems a little better (more HD?)

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Greg

 

[eclipse1966]

Any opinions? Contractor wants to get the house wired up for satellite and I guess we need to make a decision.

We are out in the boonies and these seem to be our only options. We have had Starchoice for the past 9 years, and the service has been pretty good. Expressvu seems to have better hardware and the programming seems a little better (more HD?)

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Greg

I had expressvu for 4 years and switched to starchoice and never looked back to be honest. Had a lot of issues with expressvu service - they kept cutting our service off for 4.5 months saying I had not paid the bill but in fact I had direct payment off my visa set up. Each time they apologized for the inconvenience to find it being cut off again the following month. Needless to say they could not get it straight so I switched. Also, Starchoice service has some one who speaks real english if you no what I mean

 

[WCTHEMI]

Shouldn't matter which one you decide to go with, they should be able to run the cables for you. As far as I know, they both still use coaxial cable, so which provider you choose to use should be irrelevant.

 

[High Velocity]

Shouldn't matter which one you decide to go with, they should be able to run the cables for you. As far as I know, they both still use coaxial cable, so which provider you choose to use should be irrelevant.

I agree. Just run a high quality coax cable and you should be good for either service provider.

 

[tex78]

have had both .... star choice [ shaw direct now ] is the way .... bell service sucks.... plus everytime i called it was a sheet head on the other end that i couldn't understand .... starchoice .. everytime i have called has been a normal person there...

 

[woody_tobius_jr]

Do you have to pay for the HD channels with Bell? I thought my brother in law ( he uses Bell) said that. Starchoice they are included. I havent had any issues with Starchoice either, I like the fact that I can order pay per view without having to phone and order it, just push the button and go. Not sure how Bell is set up on that point.

 

[intmid8or!]

Do you have to pay for the HD channels with Bell? I thought my brother in law ( he uses Bell) said that. Starchoice they are included. I havent had any issues with Starchoice either, I like the fact that I can order pay per view without having to phone and order it, just push the button and go. Not sure how Bell is set up on that point.

starchoice program guide stinks. wont let you filter out programming you dont pay for, so your like "hey i wanna watch that" so you tune on the channel only to have it say you dont get that channel. Bell lets you choose all channels, all HD or all subbed channels on the guide.

 

[tex78]

starchoice program guide stinks. wont let you filter out programming you dont pay for, so your like "hey i wanna watch that" so you tune on the channel only to have it say you dont get that channel. Bell lets you choose all channels, all HD or all subbed channels on the guide.

well u haven't got the right thing set... yes they do have it....

 

[teeroy]

telus has satellite tv now too, they have a few good promos going. I'm with Bell currently, had Dish Network before there was canook sat service and the switch was easy.

 

[Cyle]

Had bell for like 10 years if you have issues it can suck dealing with them, but their channels are great. Been to many people's houses with starchoice and noticed a huge difference, got telus tv now and it sucks $75 a month for like no channels, easily 20-30 good ones I had with bell I don't with telus for like the same price. will likely go back to bell. Had a few billing issues with bell to though. But in the end the biggest thing for me is the actual programming and they got that down.

 

[79TXL]

I've had both....Never any problems with Starchoice.....Always billing problems with Bell.

 

[teeroy]

Had bell for like 10 years if you have issues it can suck dealing with them, but their channels are great. Been to many people's houses with starchoice and noticed a huge difference, got telus tv now and it sucks $75 a month for like no channels, easily 20-30 good ones I had with bell I don't with telus for like the same price. will likely go back to bell. Had a few billing issues with bell to though. But in the end the biggest thing for me is the actual programming and they got that down.

thanks Cyle, nice to see a helpful post from you once in a while. guess I'll stick with bell

 

[sledderdoc]

Hmm have been with Bell for years no problems at all. ????

Either way just run good cable as was stated, should be fine for either.

 

[DaveB]

Run 4 (FOUR) good quality cables from your utility area (inside) to the dish location on the south-facing wall. If you go Bell HD it is better to have the SW-44 switch inside where it stays warm as opposed to up in the air, then trying to get power to it up there. I would go Bell. (Telus is the same...different biller, same satt, same hardware, same programming) Nice small dish with 2 dual LNB's...tuck it under the eaves up high so snow/rain doesn't get on it and yer golden. The four cables (2 off each LNB) will run to your utility room and plug into the SW-44 switch...one input gets a power inserter. There are 4 outputs on the SW-44 allowing up to 4 recievers. You'll probably want two outputs to your main reciever so you can run a PVR...watch one show while recording on another...requires two satt feeds. Then run one feed to the BR and one to your den or whatever.

 

[magnet]

Run 4 (FOUR) good quality cables from your utility area (inside) to the dish location on the south-facing wall. If you go Bell HD it is better to have the SW-44 switch inside where it stays warm as opposed to up in the air, then trying to get power to it up there. I would go Bell. (Telus is the same...different biller, same satt, same hardware, same programming) Nice small dish with 2 dual LNB's...tuck it under the eaves up high so snow/rain doesn't get on it and yer golden. The four cables (2 off each LNB) will run to your utility room and plug into the SW-44 switch...one input gets a power inserter. There are 4 outputs on the SW-44 allowing up to 4 recievers. You'll probably want two outputs to your main reciever so you can run a PVR...watch one show while recording on another...requires two satt feeds. Then run one feed to the BR and one to your den or whatever.

well if your going to say it like that .......................lol
thanks awesome post just about sounds like you have done it before.

 

[DaveB]

well if your going to say it like that .......................lol
thanks awesome post just about sounds like you have done it before.

My house is 11 yrs old now and when we built it, I had the electrician run cable everywhere. They kinda balked at it because that just wasn't done back then. Glad I did. I think it's kind of standard practice now to have cable and phone in every room. I would think even running a network cable to every room might be a good idea these days. It's nice to have all the cable coming to a comon point in the utility room too...makes set-up nice and clean. Another good tip: run 3 sets of speaker wires between boxes on each end of your living room...for surround sound. None of this stuffing the wires under the baseboard crap.

 

[Swiper]

If you are running new cable run six not four they are putting up a new sat soon you will need the extra cables for the third sat.

 

[suzuki_ryder]

If you are running new cable run six not four they are putting up a new sat soon you will need the extra cables for the third sat.

Is this for express vu or starchoice?


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[imdoo'n]

have had both .... star choice [ shaw direct now ] is the way .... bell service sucks.... plus everytime i called it was a sheet head on the other end that i couldn't understand .... starchoice .. everytime i have called has been a normal person there...

yeah but you only seem ta use the one porno channel.

 

[youngpolarisguy]

Been with bell for about 3 years now and so far so good, havent had any problems. Did notice the other day though playing with my acount online that if add one more HD theam to my plan my bill will go down $5 a month, Should have done that a lot sooner.