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Old 01-09-2016, 19:50
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As I am going to be moving to BT fibre soon, I am looking into whether BT TV would be worth adding or not

I have one query.

The site says "All our TV packages use BT Broadband to deliver programmes to your TV". Does this include the basic/terrestrial channels like BBC etc or does the you view box still obtain these via your aerial/freeview.

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Old 01-09-2016, 20:02
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You're spot on. BT delivers the pay channels through your broadband and you get the rest through your ariel. It depends where you live what channels you'll get from freeview.
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Old 01-09-2016, 20:02
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All the usual terrestrial channels are delivered via the standard aerial. Sports, movies and other add ons are via broadband but do not count to your download limit.
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Old 01-09-2016, 20:14
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There's also a choice of weather you'd like a box that records or not. There's one that allows you to pause live TV and another two Humax recorders, one of which is the new 4K box.
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Old 01-09-2016, 20:23
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Cheers. We have no freeview at all here so was hoping it was all via iptv.

Oh well, stick with freesat then

Cheers again
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Old 01-09-2016, 21:43
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Cheers. We have no freeview at all here so was hoping it was all via iptv.

Oh well, stick with freesat then

Cheers again
Hang on a minute have you checked if BT TV is available where you live,
as not all areas can have BT TV due to the Broadband Speed in your area

If you can get BT TV then I do not see why you cannot sign up without a Freeview aerial

I suggest you try to sign up and DO NOT tick the box where it asks you to install a new TV aerial

If you do get BT TV then you could just watch the IPTV channels,
you do not have to watch the Freeview channels at all
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Old 01-09-2016, 23:03
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If the OP is getting FTTC/FTTP then they will be able to get BT TV as the speeds will be plenty fast enough. It is only people in non-fibre areas that may have a problem.
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Old 01-09-2016, 23:08
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Hang on a minute have you checked if BT TV is available where you live,
as not all areas can have BT TV due to the Broadband Speed in your area

If you can get BT TV then I do not see why you cannot sign up without a Freeview aerial

I suggest you try to sign up and DO NOT tick the box where it asks you to install a new TV aerial

If you do get BT TV then you could just watch the IPTV channels,
you do not have to watch the Freeview channels at all
Yes it is available. Fibre speed is at the maximum you can get as i am right by the green box (quoting 80meg). I just hoped it would be a way to watch the Freeview channels in another room without having to put more cableing from the dish. I dont particularly want any of the IPTV extra channels they offfer, the "free" channels are the only ones i watch.
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Old 01-09-2016, 23:55
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Yes it is available. Fibre speed is at the maximum you can get as i am right by the green box (quoting 80meg). I just hoped it would be a way to watch the Freeview channels in another room without having to put more cableing from the dish. I dont particularly want any of the IPTV extra channels they offfer, the "free" channels are the only ones i watch.
You live in Walsall and 'Freeview is not available'?!

I think what you mean to say is that you don't want to have to put an aerial up, as Freeview signal from Sutton Coldfield should be available where you are.
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Old 03-09-2016, 19:07
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You live in Walsall and 'Freeview is not available'?!

I think what you mean to say is that you don't want to have to put an aerial up, as Freeview signal from Sutton Coldfield should be available where you are.
No I mean we have no freeview signal here. we have had two aerial companies out. We are at the bottom of a very high Hill and cannot receive the Sutton transmissions. Aerials have been tried without any luck

We couldn't get analogue from Sutton without severe ghosting either. Analogue we had to get from The Wrekin which technically we were outside the TSA.
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Old 03-09-2016, 20:03
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No I mean we have no freeview signal here. we have had two aerial companies out. We are at the bottom of a very high Hill and cannot receive the Sutton transmissions. Aerials have been tried without any luck

We couldn't get analogue from Sutton without severe ghosting either. Analogue we had to get from The Wrekin which technically we were outside the TSA.
If you could get analogue from The Wrekin I would have thought you should be able to get Freeview as well. The service area for digital should be the same as analogue now, it may not have been before DSO however.
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Old 03-09-2016, 21:11
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Since digital switchover power on most mux has improved for most Freeview transmitters.
Only if you get your Freeview from a relay transmitter that you may not get all the Freeview channels that are on offer.
Also not every area gets the local Freeview mux. In my case I get a poor signal from my local Freeview mux. Yet a mile or so south from me picks up the Freeview local mux fine.
I also have BT TV and I'm using the BT Youview G4 box.
Have got that used to pause and rewind live TV that I would now be lost without it.

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Old 03-09-2016, 21:41
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If you could get analogue from The Wrekin I would have thought you should be able to get Freeview as well. The service area for digital should be the same as analogue now, it may not have been before DSO however.
Nope we can't. It was tried only a couple of months ago with a couple of professional Ariel installers. THe signal is there but is breaking up so badly its unwatchable.

The analogue signal was very poor too when it was on
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