You View: What are you paying for?

CharlieRabbit01

Can any one tell me what exactly your paying for with you view?

Looking at the BT website they want to charge £5 for essentials what is that? I cant see it on their website.

penrhyn

YouView is a free terrestrial service, no need to pay anything for it.....Apart from the box.
They are available at popular prices at Richer Sounds.

http://www.youview.com/

http://www.richersounds.com/product/freeview-freesat-pvr/humax/dtr-t1000/huma-dtr1000-youview

im-lost

penrhyn wrote: »

YouView is a free terrestrial service, no need to pay anything for it.....Apart from the box.
They are available at popular prices at Richer Sounds.

http://www.youview.com/

http://www.richersounds.com/product/freeview-freesat-pvr/humax/dtr-t1000/huma-dtr1000-youview

But they are going with BT, which gets them BT vision which is a chargeable extra, the £5 extra give you access to the BT vision services, but you pay for each show you watch, the same as if you go with talk talk, you get talk talk tv, which they charge extra for.

The base package from YouView is free, ie freeview and the catchup services, but the premium content provided by the 3rd parties if you get a box from talk talk / BT etc usually costs extra, or is built in to the package you buy.

When you just get the box from a retailer, you only get the freeview and catchup services.

CharlieRabbit01

im-lost wrote: »

But they are going with BT, which gets them BT vision which is a chargeable extra, the £5 extra give you access to the BT vision services, but you pay for each show you watch, the same as if you go with talk talk, you get talk talk tv, which they charge extra for.

The base package from YouView is free, ie freeview and the catchup services, but the premium content provided by the 3rd parties if you get a box from talk talk / BT etc usually costs extra, or is built in to the package you buy.

When you just get the box from a retailer, you only get the freeview and catchup services.

I see, that seems strange to me, to pay for a service which then charges me to watch programmes?

penrhyn

The question is , do you want the paid for stuff fromBT?.
You can still get paid for services from Now TV if you buy your box.

CharlieRabbit01

Kurtis_Blue wrote: »

If you wish to know what you are paying for then simply look at the website:

http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/products/tv/how-to-get-bt-vision

I'm clearly having an off day as i didnt find that page. :rotfl:

CharlieRabbit01

penrhyn wrote: »

The question is , do you want the paid for stuff fromBT?.
You can still get paid for services from Now TV if you buy your box.

I've looked at nowtv but £9.99 for 1 days sky sports pass is a bit expensive.

We're moving to a new place so looking at various package options for phone and broadband also looking at the possibility of adding tv to it as well if the price is right.

VisionMan

CharlieRabbit01 wrote: »

I've looked at nowtv but £9.99 for 1 days sky sports pass is a bit expensive.

We're moving to a new place so looking at various package options for phone and broadband also looking at the possibility of adding tv to it as well if the price is right.

Hi,

You could look at it like this, for your money you will get a top quality 500GB Freeview HD pvr and free access to over twenty thousand free programmes that are available via (internet) On Demand.

If you go retail, you'll be looking at £230 - £250.

If you go through BT, you'll be looking at a £49 activation fee plus £5 a month for twelve months = £109. And at the end of that twelve months the box will be yours to keep, to take where you will.

macman

However you will also be tied into BT's overpriced and poor quality broadband product.

2010

People would rather pay £200/300 or even worse "rent" a Youview box, when all you really have to do is go to PoundWorld and buy a HDMI cable, connect it to your laptop and tv then you can get all the I-players including Utube for nowt.

CharlieRabbit01

2010 wrote: »

People would rather pay £200/300 or even worse "rent" a Youview box, when all you really have to do is go to PoundWorld and buy a HDMI cable, connect it to your laptop and tv then you can get all the I-players including Utube for nowt.

This is what I don't get about you view.

As far as I can see, I'm either paying up front for a box or paying a subscription for a service that I can get free exactly how you describe above.