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Have bt vision got a new menu running?
wsg
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I have not had my bt vision box out of its box for several months and this morning I was in my neighbours house and he had his bt vision box on and to my surprise the whole menu system was completely different to mine his box is the same as mine but about 3 months older I set mine up again thinking it would update itself but nothing happened any advise please as I could not find a factory reset
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The different EPG styles are demonstrated at http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/10904/c/348,3048,3050
Actually no, its not wsg. You actually have to wait for the box to be targetted by the BT servers to get the update. And theres no way to force it, unfortunately.
1) The "Classic" Microsoft Mediaroom based version that has been running for many years. The menus look like this. This version can run on the original silver box or the later black box.
2) The newer "Cardinal" version built without Microsoft, which looks like this and can only run on the black box.
3) The latest incarnation of BT Vision is a YouView application. If you plug a Humax YouView box into a BT Broadband line you will have access to an application which looks similar to the Cardinal screen above.
4) Multicast, which looks like Cardinal but has extra TV channels in the EPG. These channels are delivered via broadband and look & feel just like a normal broadcast channel. The only way you can tell is the little broadband "b" symbol as shown here.
We are told that BT's YouView boxes will also support multicast channels soon...
Hi wsg,
The term 'classic' does not refer to the physical box type but the software on it. You have the classic software, which is known as BT Vision 1.0. Your friend has the new platform's operating system, which is known as BT Vision 2.0.