VANCOUVER – Optik is the new brand name of Telus’ suite of advanced TV and high speed internet services, the company announced today.
“Our Telus team has tapped the latest fibre optic and IP technologies to bring our customers a compelling set of home entertainment and communications services that can be tailored to their lifestyles,” said Joe Natale, Telus’ chief commercial officer in the press release.
Optik brings together Optik TV, which is powered by Microsoft Mediaroom, and Optik High Speed, offering Internet access speeds of up to 25 Mbps that can be accessed anywhere in your home with home Wi-Fi.
“Optik is the realization of the dream of flexible, two-way entertainment on your TV screen over blazing fast Internet connections, and an entertainment experience that provides more connectivity, control and choice to our customers whether surfing the Web in their home office or catching a movie in HD with their family,” added Natale.
“(O)nly Telus customers can record up to three programs simultaneously on a single personal video recorder and then play them back on any TV in the home with a digital box, even switching TVs mid-program when life calls for a little flexibility. The cable monopoly on TV is over and Optik now provides consumers with choice and innovation.”
Optik TV offers:
• PVR Anywhere, networking all TVs in the home with one multi-tuner PVR so customers can pause a recorded show or movie in one room and pick it up in another from where they left off
• Video On Demand with DVD-style controls
• Picture-in-Picture browsing
• Fast channel changing
• Call Display on your TV.
In the near future Telus will introduce remote recording, the ability to program your Optik TV PVR from any web connected device.
As for the HIS portion, the company’s Optik High Speed Internet service includes in-home Wi-Fi at no additional cost with one easy-to-install box in their home.
After capex of $25 billion since 2000, Telus is investing another $1.7 billion this year to continue expanding its network and bringing faster Internet and Optik TV to more homes in Alberta and British Columbia.
