Digital TV and Radio in the UK
BT Vision users, or those with new YouView boxes from BT, are in for a bunch of new channels “soon” Various announcements over the last few weeks have show that BT has been putting in a lot of legwork to increase the number of TV channels available to its customers. The recent deals aren’t just…
BT has today launched its YouView TV service. We take a look at what’s on offer: The Service The YouView service combines Freeview with a large library of on-demand content. With BT, you’ll get the Humax DVR-T1000 YouView box (normally £299) for free, subject to a £6.95 delivery charge and a £49 activation fee. You’ll…
Launch plans for the combined Freeview and Internet service YouView have been announced today, Wednesday the 4th of July 2012. What will YouView offer? The new box will let you watch and record the existing Freeview channels, and let you access catch-up TV over Internet from BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. Sound…
BT Vision has secured the rights to 38 Premier League matches per season. They successfully outbid ESPN, who currently have the rights to show matches not shown on Sky Sports. From the 2013-14 season, Sky will have the right to show live coverage of 116 games per season, and BT Vision has the rights for…
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The BT Vision service will soon be getting two new channels: National Geographic Channel and Nat Geo Wild. BT Vision already offers content from National Geographic in its library of On Demand content which is delivered over Broadband, but this new deal will allow the two channels to be shown real-time as dedicated channels. We…
Sports channel ESPN will be making its channel available to everyone for free, for one weekend in February. Between 6am on the morning of Friday 3rd February 2012, and 6am on Monday the 6th February 2012, the ESPN channel will be free-to-view on the following services: Freeview Sky BT Vision Top Up TV The following…
This month sees a few changes to the Top Up TV service, and we’re guessing a lot of customers aren’t going to be happy. If you have Top Up TV, you’ll need to rescan your box to make sure you can continue to watch the service, but you’ll notice some reductions in the content and…
BT’s on-demand TV service has just had a visual overhaul. First off, BT Vision has a new logo, pictured to the right. Grey, blue and triangles being very much the theme. Next up, the website has had a refresh and a fresh coat of electronic paint The big change though, is to the interface: BT…
Here at Radio and Telly Towers, we’re finding we’re getting more and more questions about BT Vision – mostly from people looking to move from Sky to save a few pounds. We’ve just discovered that BT has announced a special offer, so we thought it was time to remind you what BT Vision has to…
BT made a few changes to its TV offering, BT Vision, over the weekend, and as we’re seeing a lot of interest in BT Vision from our site visitors, we thought it would help to explain what’s changed: BT’s been trying to find the right way to brand its slightly complex package offering in the…
The full version of the BBC iPlayer is now, finally, available on BT Vision. BT Vision customers can now access the library of recent TV content from the BBC, plus loads of BBC radio shows from their BT Vision box. Vision customers have been able to access some BBC catch-up content before, but until this…
BT Vision users take note. If you are using BT Vision with Comtrend Powerline Adapters, note that there is a product recall in effect. The recall only affects the ComTrend DH10P model (pictured) – these have been supplied by BT to allow the BT Vision box to be connected to the BT Home Hub over…
Placeholders for Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2 have been added to the Freeview channel lineup today, the 5th of July 2010. The channels, currently labelled BT 1 and BT 2, are placeholders for the Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2 service to be offered by BT Vision from August 2010. They can…
With the 2010/11 football season fast approaching, BT Vision has just announced pricing for their Sky Sports service. Ofcom recently ruled that Sky has to offer their sports content to other TV services at reasonable prices, and this has allowed BT Vision to be able to offer the most popular sports packages at prices significantly…
It looks like BT Vision and Top Up TV will be launching an enhanced sports service for the 2010/2010 football season. Good news for football fans not keen, or not able, to have a satellite dish. Until now, Sky has clung on tightly to their crown jewels, their rights to the majority of the Premier…
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