Homechoice or SkyDigital
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Now Homechoice (http://www.homechoice.co.uk) has added Sky Sports & Movies to it's service. Homechoice now has an impressive range of features that really gives Sky and it's Sky Plus box some decent competition, all for a £1 installation.
• Sky Sports & Sky Movies
• 60 TV channels
• 1000 Movies on Demand with Fast Forward & Rewind controls
• 2500 Track Video Jukebox with FF/RW and Skip
• TV on Demand including BBC One & Channel 4 & Chelsea TV Replay Channels & Active Channels like C-One, Disney Treasures, Scamp, Fitness etc
• 512 kb/s to 2 mb/s broadband internet
• Sky Sports & Sky Movies
• 60 TV channels
• 1000 Movies on Demand with Fast Forward & Rewind controls
• 2500 Track Video Jukebox with FF/RW and Skip
• TV on Demand including BBC One & Channel 4 & Chelsea TV Replay Channels & Active Channels like C-One, Disney Treasures, Scamp, Fitness etc
• 512 kb/s to 2 mb/s broadband internet
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So um...is that an advert then?
It is true, however, that they have a long way to go. Presently, the image quality is improving but just not where it ought to be; I would rate the image quality at "freeview level".
More to the point, there are frequent drop-outs, causing temporary pixelation on TV broadcasts, sharp, load, sudden hissing on radio b'cast, and occasional, transient, service interruptions (a few per day) on the Internet service.
I believe they're on the right track but with quite some way to go.
I've never experienced problems like that, though my local telephone exchange (Southwark) is a 5-10 minute walk from here. Initially the ridiculously short DHCP lease time caused problems with my wireless router, but since that's been increased, all is well. Picture quality is certainly improving too. I guess with HomeChoice a lot could be dependant on the quality of your telephone line, after all I'm sure they are pushing the data capacity of a phone line quite hard.
i would ring customer services. i have never had those problems.
agree picuture quality is not quite there on some channels and VOD
I've had no problems whatsoever so far (crosses fingers...)
They have only just launched the Sky channels - pricing info is not yet on their website, although I intend to ask for details if it doesn't appear soon.
I'm loving the V:MX channels at the moment, having a video jukebox rocks :cool:
The only minor negative point so far is that the box feels slightly slow to react to actions on the remote, though it isn't THAT bad, and I'm sure will improve with upgrades etc in the future.
Schooly
A message pops up telling you that it's not yet available on most channels, so some sort of interactive feature must factor in their plans somewhere.
(mid you, telewest have been saying that about the 'digital text' button for about the last four years...)
Will have to try and convince my landlord to let me stick a dish on the side of the flat!
I was under the impression that most channel providers (except the BBC) were in fact scaling back interactive features these days?