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BT Vision Box

My parents have a BT Vision box that they no longer use.

Does anyone know if i could use the box as just a freeview box and use the recorder that is inbuilt to record the freeview channels without being connected to BT ??

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  • Browntoa
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    will not work ,needs to have a live BT broadband connection to bootand think it only works on thline it is set up on
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  • sorry mate, wont work, as the other reply says you need an active bt broadband connection, to be honest i have had bt vision for nearly 2 years....go somewhere alse, quite expensive for not alot!
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