Nimiq 4 Launches Today for Bell TV
Bell TV’s newest satellite, Nimiq 4 is due to launch today (Friday September 19th) at at 5:48 p.m. EST. Telesat, who is owned by BCE, will be launching the Satellite from the Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan (no Borat jokes).
Nimiq 4, dedicated to Bell is rumored to be the first step in its transition to MPEG-4, however, I expect to see some more HD channel offered to us non MPEG-4 receiver owners within the next year. I anticape testing taking a while as this is the first new satellite in a while. Last year, Bell leased a dying statellite from Direct TV to supplement the aling Nimiq 2, which only had partial transponder functionality, and no redundancy like Nimiq 1.
As always, if you have questions, or more information, please let us know in the comments.
Hello, on the subject of Direct TV and Bell, I am trying to find out if I could buy a Direct TV Sat Go package at $500US on internet, and get it to work with my Bell Express Vu subscription. According to Direct Tv themselves, they say it is allowed. I don’t want to receive Direct Tv signals.
So where do I start asking? Are those compatible?
Any suggestions would be appreciated. This Sat Go includes an antenna, receiver, and 17 in LCD monitor. So innovative, we need one here.
Thanks