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Does anyone subscribe to BT TV? I'd appreciate any experiences.
I have BT Internet.
I tend to rent/buy DVDs of films I fancy as soon as they become available. I don't watch much football. I watch F1, but find 19 races a season a bit much and I follow rugby so BT sport is a favourite.
For £7 I can have most of the channels I watch with any frequency.
I have BT Internet.
I tend to rent/buy DVDs of films I fancy as soon as they become available. I don't watch much football. I watch F1, but find 19 races a season a bit much and I follow rugby so BT sport is a favourite.
For £7 I can have most of the channels I watch with any frequency.
DuraAce said:
We have it. You need BT infinity broadband though for the extra channels and BT sport to work on the Youview+ box I believe.
The box is free with the £7 monthly deal (18 month contract I think), I went for the HD top up for £3 so I can enjoy MotoGP.
Channels like Discovery, Nat Geo and History were our most watched channels on Sky so its nice to have them and be saving a few quid each month. Moving to infinity has increased our BB speed by x10 which is a nice bonus as anything we cannot find on BT TV we just download it instead.
Thanks for that. I've got infinity. I upload videos of my club's rugby matches and the extra speed saved me hours, literally.The box is free with the £7 monthly deal (18 month contract I think), I went for the HD top up for £3 so I can enjoy MotoGP.
Channels like Discovery, Nat Geo and History were our most watched channels on Sky so its nice to have them and be saving a few quid each month. Moving to infinity has increased our BB speed by x10 which is a nice bonus as anything we cannot find on BT TV we just download it instead.
You say saving a few quid, I pay for the full non-HD package on Sky so it is a fair few £s. I was paying it all for F1 in reality.
Cheers.
bstb3 said:
We had BT TV until recently. Channel choice was fine, and it was nice to be able to rent and watch movies via the box. We got rid though, having gone through two replacement BT vision boxes in under 2 years. The hardware was just rubbish, rebooting whenever it felt like it and slow as anything even when it did work. Trying to use the catch up players was a real russian roulette. Mostly they would be fine but occasionally would just scramble the box. Both boxes were replaced for free, but when the second one started playing up after < 6 months that was the final straw.
The engineers were great, one even said himself the boxes were pretty poor, but just got fed up with it not working. Still on infinity, thats ace.
I'm on my fourth Sky box. The engineers were great, one even said himself the boxes were pretty poor, but just got fed up with it not working. Still on infinity, thats ace.
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we were thinking about going back to sky... you would think they would get these things better made.[/quote
We had the original type which went wrong once it was over 2 years old. Chap called out and replaced it with a second hand on he 'had in the van'. Very low charge, just the call out. It lasted a bit less than a year. When it went wrong, and we spent a few days on the phone with their 'engineers' going through the same procedure each time despite telling them 'we've already done this. Same chap then returned and supplied us with a 'refurbished' one, free if I took out an insurance. This was much better and lasted about 6 months. I was somewhat forceful on the complaints line and was phoned and told, as a special consideration, I would get an HD box to replace mine.
Same chap came and I told him that I'd been promised an HD one and he said that their were no 'normal' ones left and they only had HD boxes. (Nice one, engineering supervisor. I fell for it.)
This lasted quite well, probably about 2 years. Then one of the HDDs went rabid and it was replaced without question. This one, though, had a software problem and I had to reboot it a number of times but I still had problems. I called our engineer (by now I had his home number) and he returned and swopped it for a new one, this must be about 2 years ago. Still going strong.
NOTE: This is my fifth, not fourth as I suggested. I've also lost about 2 years somewhere. I think the first one went wrong once and was repaired when quite new.
To give Sky their due, or their contractors, once past the engineers, and their reading of their scripts, things move rapidly. I've never been more than a day without TV apart from when I couldn't stay in.
A neighbour of ours at a previous house bought an aftermarket one, I believe black market as too his Sky card. It lasted less than a year. He returned it and bought a more expensive one, and I commented that he was wasting money. He was still on it after 5 years. Never saw it but his missus reckoned that it looked rather expensive but was cheaper than my insurance.
Can you get aftermarket ones for BT?
we were thinking about going back to sky... you would think they would get these things better made.[/quoteWe had the original type which went wrong once it was over 2 years old. Chap called out and replaced it with a second hand on he 'had in the van'. Very low charge, just the call out. It lasted a bit less than a year. When it went wrong, and we spent a few days on the phone with their 'engineers' going through the same procedure each time despite telling them 'we've already done this. Same chap then returned and supplied us with a 'refurbished' one, free if I took out an insurance. This was much better and lasted about 6 months. I was somewhat forceful on the complaints line and was phoned and told, as a special consideration, I would get an HD box to replace mine.
Same chap came and I told him that I'd been promised an HD one and he said that their were no 'normal' ones left and they only had HD boxes. (Nice one, engineering supervisor. I fell for it.)
This lasted quite well, probably about 2 years. Then one of the HDDs went rabid and it was replaced without question. This one, though, had a software problem and I had to reboot it a number of times but I still had problems. I called our engineer (by now I had his home number) and he returned and swopped it for a new one, this must be about 2 years ago. Still going strong.
NOTE: This is my fifth, not fourth as I suggested. I've also lost about 2 years somewhere. I think the first one went wrong once and was repaired when quite new.
To give Sky their due, or their contractors, once past the engineers, and their reading of their scripts, things move rapidly. I've never been more than a day without TV apart from when I couldn't stay in.
A neighbour of ours at a previous house bought an aftermarket one, I believe black market as too his Sky card. It lasted less than a year. He returned it and bought a more expensive one, and I commented that he was wasting money. He was still on it after 5 years. Never saw it but his missus reckoned that it looked rather expensive but was cheaper than my insurance.
Can you get aftermarket ones for BT?
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