Telus TV

[CDNPiper]

Hey All.. Long time lurker, but this subject is something I have some knowledge about (unlike reefkeeping - still leeching knowledge)

I have had TelusTV for about 4 years. I've had no real problems with it, but I'm in a new area of Edmonton. I recently upgraded to the new Telus TV that they are currently advertising and am very happy.

One of the downsides of it before was the limit to a 3mbps internet connection and 2 Set top Boxes. Now I can have up to 6 Set Top Boxes, all of them HD capable and my internet is 15mbps (when all the TV's are off) and around 7mbps when they are on. I have 3 set top boxes in my house right now and all are HD capable. The PVR is 320gig and ANY tv in the house can access content from it, and even the old school analog TV's can display recorded HD content. Convenient when my kids want to watch Spongebob, I can send them upstairs and they can access the PVR from there when we have people over.

Last night my wife wanted to watch a movie that was on the PVR and I wanted to watch the game. She went to the bedroom and watched it while I was downstairs watching the game live using the PVR. Both were HD and it worked solidly. Also, I told her she HAD to watch the last 5 min of the 3rd so I went upstairs, paused her show, joined the game and rewound it to the last 5... Something I can't do with any other provider right now.

Shaw doesn't offer the "Whole Home PVR" and charges at least $400 for a HD PVR.

Disclaimer: I used to work for Shaw and really can't stand them so I am biased. Nor will I ever have any Shaw/Starchoice products in my home.

Also, it's well known that Shaw uses bandwidth throttling on their internet connection, and Telus doesn't. I'll stick to Telus because I don't need an ISP deciding the priority of the traffic that I want from the internet.