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Thinking of switching from Sky - what are people's experiences?
Hampton Wick
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I'm getting pretty hacked off with the ever increasing price of even quite basic TV packages from Sky. I'm currently paying £30 a month just for a bunch of channels, nothing special like sorts or movies.
I already have BT Infinity broadband, and I'm quite tempted by the 10 quid a month service with a PVR and streaming channels.
However, I've heard a lot of bad things about the hardware being erratic and slow to boot etc. How are people finding it, especially former Sky viewers.
I already have BT Infinity broadband, and I'm quite tempted by the 10 quid a month service with a PVR and streaming channels.
However, I've heard a lot of bad things about the hardware being erratic and slow to boot etc. How are people finding it, especially former Sky viewers.
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It's fast enough, you can't blaze through the banner as quickly but that was only good for flicking through all the tripe that you get on sky.
I had now TV and just the free channels on youview that was fine but wanted to record stuff that was never on demand
This is untrue.
The old BT Vision system still exists, though BT are gradually phasing it out in favour of the newer, slicker YouView service.
The BT Vision box continues to remain the only way BT TV subscribers can watch Sky Sports 5.
Do you understand the concept of context?
The OP is a new subscriber ... BT Vision is CLOSED to new subscribers and what is wrong with informing the OP to consider BT TV!
You View is still a young platform, but the BT youview boxes run quite well, it's responsive with hardly any delay in button presses, not like that Huawei trash talk talk hand out.
Humax boxes are renowned for their PSU issues ( like thomson sky Hd boxes) however the latest ones made by humax for BT have external PSU's so problem solved.
If your the AV enthusiast type, the HD quality will disappoint. Sky's HD quality is a fair bit better especially with sport. On demand is streamed rather than downloaded, so be prepared for adverts in your on demand content.
It is alot cheaper. it is a relatively new service thought, BT need time to strike up more deals with the content/ channel providers.
You will also get the BT G4 Youview + box.
On eco low mode box and takes 15 or 20 seconds to boot up from standby. You need to have eco mode set to low if you are using the Youview app or the BT Everywhere app on your phone.
You will not get some of the Sky channels that you get the now but for the price BT offer a good range of channels and us a slowly growing TV service that will given time could become a major rival to Sky
I have had the BT TV setvice going on 18 months now and in that time I have seen a few minor improvements to the BT TV service as well as Youview.
I can say I am mostly happy with the BT TV service and Youview and they are making minor improvements to the service every few months.
Also the full BT Sports package still seems to be free as long as you are a BT TV customer. BT catch up service seems to have also improved a little over the last few months.
Darren
Technically if you can get reception, the freeview HD box is over and above ireland DTT specification. Expect the channels to be is a really odd spot of the EPG ( 800's and above ) and don't expect full EPG data.
The box has a roll back epg which is helpful to get some shows you missed.
BT TV box can give you 174 freeview channels and 88 internet channels at this time and that means SD & HD.
Draw backs like with sky you can loose or get blocky image on screen in bad weathers, you can also get the same with the internet channels for a few reasons.
Box hard drive is not the size of some sky boxes that have 1 TB or 2TB
upside is BT is cheaper then sky and BT TV has two ways of increasing channels Freeview service & BT service.
And remember that if you got a dish on your home from having sky you could buy a Freesat HD Box which gives you free channels too and record too so that number of channels are even better for the price .
So you could record up to 5 channels with BT TV youview box and Freesat/ Freetime box.
This would mean with all the players and recorded shows even on bad TV days you have some great shows to watch.
From my limited knowledge I think ROI channels should be available on a Youview box but there may well be problems timer recording from both Freeview and Saorview systems. I have this problem with a Sony Freeview HD PVR. Since RTE1/2 and TG4 are now on Freeview in large parts of NI the problem of timer recording is somewhat mitigated however there is no HD on the first 2 of these local channels and sport is geo-blocked on RTE2.