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BT Vision

What is BT Vision?

This is a digital TV service that is accessible to homes throughout the UK. This company offers digital TV (using Freeview by way of a TV aerial), a digital video recorder (which is known as a V-Box) and supports video and TV content that is readily obtainable on-demand over a BT broadband connection.

Many individuals see Television –over-Broadband which is called IPTV, or Video-on-Demand and consider this as the future of TV. BT is now putting itself into the position to be one of the big players in this market. BT Vision’s offerings combine Freeview, a hard-disk recorder (to be able to do recording and live pause) and you will even have access to on-demand content. BT Vision is a wonderful service that is only available to BT Total Broadband clients in the UK.

What Services does BT Vision Offer the Homeowner?

• The set-top box that BT Vision offers maintains the reception of Freeview by way of your TV aerial. Freeview has the capacity to offer over 40 TV channels as well as 20 radio channels.

• You will be able to view a wide variety of TV shows from the last week. This is sometimes referred to by the BBC, Channels 4 and 5 as “catch-up V”.

• The V-box that is put out by BT Vision contains a hard disk that has the capacity of storing as many as 80 hours of programming.

• The V-box also comes with a 14 day electronic programme guide and an on-screen guide which will allow you a good selection of on-demand content which you will access over Broadband. You will also be able to search for content by actor or name.

• You will see that the on-demand content will include hundreds of television shows, sporting events, music videos, and kids’ programming. BT Vision has not long ago announced deals with a large number of big name content providers. Getting BT Vision

BT Vision is readily accessible all across the UK. If you wish to go with this company, you must first sign up or switch to BT Total Broadband if you have not done so already.

• Cost – BT Vision service is accessible to BT Total Broadband customers, and it comes v-box hard disk recorder that is free. You can sign up for this at btvision.bt.com. You can pay for this in either two ways. A BT engineer will come out to your house to deliver and install the BT Vision box, which will cost £60. You can choose to install the box yourself and save the £60 and go to the “self install” option. Provided you feel that you are capable to connect this box to your own television and the Home Hub yourself, all you will have to pay is £30 for the set-top box/recorder plus a subscription-free digital TV service. What a great Value!

Requirements – In order to hook up to BT Vision, this requires a BT Total Broadband connection as well as a BT Home Hub. You can get this free with a BT Total Broadband. In order to get the video-on-demand content, you will have to have a line speed of 2Mb or more. In order to check your line speed you can go to www.bt.com/btbroadband

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