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defeater00 · 2011-07-01, 08:32 AM

Hey guys not sure what you talking about when it comes to bad HD I have seen alot of HD on the fibre Op and they all look great. Mabye play around with some settings on the tv possibly?Mabye list the tv that is having the issue see if the same tv comes up multiple times . anything is possible..Also a note that all the streams are Mpeg 4 so in therory the picture quality should be better.

crazyhawk · 2011-07-01, 08:39 AM

i donno i have seen fibre/rogers/bev all side by side and bev and rogers were the same but fibre was a clear differance (as in being worse)

dbart · 2011-07-01, 10:51 AM

defeater00....I have seen HD in Bluray and BEV satellite...have you compared the quality of fiber to any of these sources? Has anyone compared to Eastlink?

defeater00 · 2011-07-01, 11:56 AM

I have seen where someone had fibre Op installed and still had there eastlink installed after and they tested and said that the fibre op was much brighter and crisper...that was on Oasis HD so really not a lot of comparison but most of the people I am seeing are actually coming from Eastlink to Fibre OP and they seem to have no complaints not sure about Bev....I know with the The Aliant TV (Copper side) in the early days there were some issues with certain tv's I forget the make but it was either Sony or LG but it was just 1 or 2 particular models so it would be good to mabye get a list together of the people that are having issues to list the tv name and model number to see if there is a trend.

JimmyFace · 2011-07-01, 12:50 PM

Problem is not tv's, either you've never seen good quality HD or you're watching only the decent channels such as hbo on demand game of thrones. If you watch pretty much any live HD especially sports you'll see it's quite bad.

pitouboy · 2011-07-01, 12:56 PM

After reading the comments on this thread, I'm not so sure that I want to move

to fibreop TV anymore. I have BEV satellite and I love the HD quality. Will aliant

HD eventually improve?

nuke12 · 2011-07-01, 01:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pitouboy

After reading the comments on this thread, I'm not so sure that I want to move

to fibreop TV anymore. I have BEV satellite and I love the HD quality. Will aliant

HD eventually improve?

I've seen enough comments on these forums that I'm going to wait. I think BEV quality is better also. I can only compare between different TV sets (my neighbors and my own) but I can see a difference. There are still a few features missing from mediaroom, I would like to see. The down side is it costs me more to keep BEV. I do think FibreOP TV will improve. I can't think of a reason the HD quality couldn't be better then any other system. The processing power of the STBs?

dbart · 2011-07-01, 02:12 PM

Yes Im sure single mode fiber has more bandwodth that satellite transponders...anyone care to comment?

NO-CRTC · 2011-07-01, 03:21 PM

All I have to add is this. I had starchoice HD, and I had Roger's HD. Now I have bell aliant HD and I see NO difference. And I have great eyesight.

Meanie · 2011-07-01, 03:48 PM

Based on all the threads on this board BEV has the best HD Quality (haven't watched a TV with it thus far for comparisons), but I previously had Rogers HD and I can say there's not too much difference in quality moving to Aliant's IPTV.

Depends how nit picky you wanna be about the matter

To me they're about the same unless you're looking for issues.

NO-CRTC · 2011-07-01, 04:31 PM

I think it could also have something to do with the brand of tv's out there also!

Tridus · 2011-07-01, 04:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by defeater00

Hey guys not sure what you talking about when it comes to bad HD I have seen alot of HD on the fibre Op and they all look great. Mabye play around with some settings on the tv possibly?Mabye list the tv that is having the issue see if the same tv comes up multiple times . anything is possible..Also a note that all the streams are Mpeg 4 so in therory the picture quality should be better.

I had FibreOp and Rogers on the same TV, with the same connections, watching the same show, at basically the same time. There was no comparison and Rogers easily won, the FibreOp was incredibly bad at pixelating during transitions and action.

Maybe they've improved it since I had it, but back then it was brutal and it wasn't a TV issue.

JimmyFace · 2011-07-01, 06:36 PM

I have a 22 inch Asus monitor I'm using as a TV, a 40 inch Dynex and a Mitsubishi projector and it is quite noticeable on all of them. Some channels or movies are quite good, but overall it is noticeably worse then Bell or Rogers. The only thing I'm unsure of is if using a direct patch cable to the STBs improves quality versus using coax (which I'm using) but I highly doubt it. If it's a tv issue then I think it's the reverse, people who can't see a difference have a tv that scales horribly across the board. I will try and post some pics soon.

defeater00 · 2011-07-01, 08:12 PM

are you guys using coax or cat5?

NO-CRTC · 2011-07-01, 10:07 PM

I'm using coax, and my HD is fine.

2011-07-01, 10:51 AM	#33
dbart Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 38	defeater00....I have seen HD in Bluray and BEV satellite...have you compared the quality of fiber to any of these sources? Has anyone compared to Eastlink? Last edited by dbart; 2011-07-01 at 10:52 AM. Reason: NEW IDEA

2011-07-01, 12:50 PM	#35
JimmyFace Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Fredericton, NB, Canada Posts: 561	Problem is not tv's, either you've never seen good quality HD or you're watching only the decent channels such as hbo on demand game of thrones. If you watch pretty much any live HD especially sports you'll see it's quite bad. __________________ Mitsubishi HC1500 projector, 3 FibreOp 2.0 HDTV receivers, Draper 120 inch screen, HD Media PC i7 920, ATI 4800 Radeon.

2011-07-01, 03:21 PM	#39
NO-CRTC Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Fredericton, N.B. Posts: 518	All I have to add is this. I had starchoice HD, and I had Roger's HD. Now I have bell aliant HD and I see NO difference. And I have great eyesight. __________________ freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication

2011-07-01, 04:31 PM	#41
NO-CRTC Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Fredericton, N.B. Posts: 518	I think it could also have something to do with the brand of tv's out there also! __________________ freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication

2011-07-01, 06:36 PM	#43
JimmyFace Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Fredericton, NB, Canada Posts: 561	I have a 22 inch Asus monitor I'm using as a TV, a 40 inch Dynex and a Mitsubishi projector and it is quite noticeable on all of them. Some channels or movies are quite good, but overall it is noticeably worse then Bell or Rogers. The only thing I'm unsure of is if using a direct patch cable to the STBs improves quality versus using coax (which I'm using) but I highly doubt it. If it's a tv issue then I think it's the reverse, people who can't see a difference have a tv that scales horribly across the board. I will try and post some pics soon. __________________ Mitsubishi HC1500 projector, 3 FibreOp 2.0 HDTV receivers, Draper 120 inch screen, HD Media PC i7 920, ATI 4800 Radeon.

2011-07-01, 08:32 AM	#31
defeater00 Rookie Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 12	Hey guys not sure what you talking about when it comes to bad HD I have seen alot of HD on the fibre Op and they all look great. Mabye play around with some settings on the tv possibly?Mabye list the tv that is having the issue see if the same tv comes up multiple times . anything is possible..Also a note that all the streams are Mpeg 4 so in therory the picture quality should be better.

2011-07-01, 08:39 AM	#32
crazyhawk Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: New Brunswick Posts: 116	i donno i have seen fibre/rogers/bev all side by side and bev and rogers were the same but fibre was a clear differance (as in being worse)

2011-07-01, 11:56 AM	#34
defeater00 Rookie Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 12	I have seen where someone had fibre Op installed and still had there eastlink installed after and they tested and said that the fibre op was much brighter and crisper...that was on Oasis HD so really not a lot of comparison but most of the people I am seeing are actually coming from Eastlink to Fibre OP and they seem to have no complaints not sure about Bev....I know with the The Aliant TV (Copper side) in the early days there were some issues with certain tv's I forget the make but it was either Sony or LG but it was just 1 or 2 particular models so it would be good to mabye get a list together of the people that are having issues to list the tv name and model number to see if there is a trend.

2011-07-01, 12:56 PM	#36
pitouboy Rookie Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 15	After reading the comments on this thread, I'm not so sure that I want to move to fibreop TV anymore. I have BEV satellite and I love the HD quality. Will aliant HD eventually improve?

2011-07-01, 02:12 PM	#38
dbart Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 38	Yes Im sure single mode fiber has more bandwodth that satellite transponders...anyone care to comment?

2011-07-01, 03:48 PM	#40
Meanie Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 98	Based on all the threads on this board BEV has the best HD Quality (haven't watched a TV with it thus far for comparisons), but I previously had Rogers HD and I can say there's not too much difference in quality moving to Aliant's IPTV. Depends how nit picky you wanna be about the matter To me they're about the same unless you're looking for issues.

2011-07-01, 08:12 PM	#44
defeater00 Rookie Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 12	are you guys using coax or cat5?

2011-07-01, 10:07 PM	#45
NO-CRTC Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Fredericton, N.B. Posts: 518	I'm using coax, and my HD is fine. __________________ freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication

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