Bell ExpressVu (Canada's leading direct-to-home satellite television company with more than 1.7 million customers) has just launched a batch of "All-in-One" service/programming bundles designed to proffer simple, clear and compelling ways to obtain programming, hardware, installation and lifetime warranties in four simple packages, bless them.

With "build your own bundle" also an option, consumers can now fulfill their TV needs even though they might lack a PHD in Rocket Science. The four All-In-One variants are designed to meet broad-stroke expectations and include all necessary equipment--omitting the unnecessary or redundant stuff--in basic, "to do that you'll need this" packages.

If, for example, you've bought yourself a big, fat high-def TV and maybe a boffo surround sound system, and have just suddenly realized you don't own anything that actually plays high-def content (DVD players are just standard-definition systems, albeit digital, and your HDTV will display them, just not in high-def, which is like putting an 8-track in your Ferrari. The Xbox 360 videogame console, meanwhile, will play games in high def, but not movies... not until this fall at any rate, but that's another story). Still, you did buy an HDTV because you're keen on "next level" home entertainment, simply opting for ExpressVu's HD Extra bundle ($98/month) is going to net you everything you need. That's some 500 channels (all digital); about 25 of them broadcast in true high definition, movie channels galore (commercial free), more specialty channels than you can shake a remote at (in truth, Discovery Channel in HD is reason enough alone), plus a dual-tuner PVR receiver that does the record/pause/rewind-live-TV thing--twice.

(Note: Expect a glowing review of Bell's uber spiffy 9200 HD PVR in the coming weeks. For now, suffice it to say the thing rocks, as does the service.)

That's the go-big-and-stay-home option, anyway, which might be overkill for some and over-budget for others.

There's also the Digital Extra Package ($78/month), which is pretty much the same offering minus the high-definition content. That also means you can use it with your current, standard definition TV (no need to blow a wad on a HDTV set with this one) while including all that way-cool record/pause/rewind functionality and digital quality, movies, specialty channels, etc.

Of course, if you got yourself an HDTV for the aesthetics of it all (and maybe the 10x better-than-regular-cable picture quality) but you're not such an avid watcher that pausing-live-TV seems worth the extra dough; if you just want the News at 6 and LOST at 8, 9 and 10 (that's time shifting, where you watch TV feeds from 4 - 6 different times zones) and maybe a commercial free HD movie on Friday night and an HD Monster Garage marathon on Saturday afternoon, then there's the HD Essential bundle.

If you want that minus the HDTV bit, there's the Digital Essential package ($50/month).

Each All-in-One package includes installation, too, where Install Guy comes over and mounts/remounts the dish on your roof, puts all the wires where they're suppose to go and even programs the custom Universal Remote(s) to run it all and your sold-separately HDTV too.

Bell ExpressVu is a Canadian industry leader in digital entertainment and continues to provide a testifiably superior customer experience since proudly introducing the market's first integrated HD receiver back in 2000.

The launch of All-In-One, Bell Canada makes choosing ExpressVu's digital TV service pretty near brainless. With six months of free HD programming, this latest ExpressVu lure will enable consumers to scope out the value of kicking it up to next-generation digital TV and HD service.

More info on All-In-One (and ExpressVu's entire range of features and services, for that matter) at www.bell.ca.