Re: FOAK - BT Vision
- From: simonk <simon.kenyon@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:52:55 -0800 (PST)
On 17 Dec, 16:10, cat <h...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://www.btvision.bt.com/
That thing, has anyone got it?
My parents are trying to embrace the digital revolution, my Mum is rather
partial to the cricket and being newly retired would like as much of that
sort of sport as she can eat. My sister thought this would be the sort of
package that wouldn't have a high maintenance cost. They're well tooled
up on Internet stuff, currently with Zen, but their house has been with
BT for Internets before with no evident ill effects.
I've given their line a thump with all the BT tests I can think of, and
can't see any problems relating to delivery of the service other than
possibly needing a new TV aerial, theirs is crap.
A personal review would be appreciated if anyone's got one already though.
They don't really want sky, because of the dish and the daft prices for
the "sports package", there's some choice implied on the "value added"
bits of this BT thing.
There's a line checker on the BT site which has a stab at guessing
your line speed, which will tell you whether or not you'll be able to
get the service.
It's basically a Freeview PVR, which I am reliably informed is a
fairly good example of the type. Normal TV is delivered over the air,
on-demand stuff down the phone line. Until recently you needed to
have an engineer round to install the set top box, and the BT home
hub, and a length of Cat5 between the two. I understand that it's now
self-install, with a couple of powerline adaptors to bridge between
the BT hub and the STB - wireless won't cut it. Only major bugbear
that I know of is that the EPG is sometimes slightly out of sync,
which can bugger up recordings if things run late.
If you are one of these nutters who won't have any Microsoft products
in the house, you probably shouldn't get BT Vision
A couple of people at work have got it and seem impressed. I'll be
getting it shortly, but then I won't be paying for it ...
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