Vu customer and Bud owner
Hey guys, I am a newbie here that has been lurking for awhile. Anyhow I am a Vu customer and in my opinion the service sucks. on Thursday at 10 pm you start to watch ER and the programmers at Bell start switching the feed, you could watch the first 15 seconds of ER over and over again for 2 minutes...very annoying.
The true HD channels are the US networks with US commercials, the Canadian channels like HD CityTv/CTV and CBC and basically SD channels that offer Dolby Left/right audio and rarely 5.1 as what CBS/NBC/WGN have.
The TMN (The Movie Network) offers movies in HD at set times only, the channel could be black until 10pm at night, and mostly there HD movies are simulcast with HBO.
I have been with Vu for 8 years and know what I am talking about, I pay $46cdn including tax for the Digital package, the superstations(TBS/KTLA/WPIX) and the HD Package.
I am also a bud owner, and have seen many bud owners switch over to Starchoice and then try to switch back again only finding out they are not able to anymore(something in the download that renders the receiver inoperable to the US signal).
I was very interested in getting Voom and had just convinced my buddy in the states to do a swap, Vu for Voom , then this happened. I will be adding morechannels like showtime and Starz to my Bud as the way I llok it, we can all get network feeds of HD, but the channels strictly dedicated to movies are limited and it looks like the BUD offers more of them.
I may not be a pro on this, but I do know what I am talking about when it comes to Vu, and if Starchoice had their offerings and groupings like Vu, I would be a Star customer in a heartbeat...PQ is excellent on Star comapred to bell..and these are only the regular channels I am talking about..Motorola makes good sh*t.
Hopefully this was of some service to you guys, need anything other info..give me a shout
Jager