BT Vision - How is it better than the others?

mrscruffy

I've seen the adverts and glossy brochures but still fail to see what is the benefit of BT Vision?

As far as I can work out, all you get is a Freeview PVR (albeit web-enabled) which you could easily purchase elsewhere for the same cost as your £90 installation fee without the bother of a 12/18 month broadband contract with BT.

As far as accessing their on-demand services, with classic films starting from as little as £9.99, that's not going to compete with my local DVD rental store or places like CD-Wow.

Am I missing a trick? Although if there were to offer to waive the £90 I might be tempted to sign a new broadband contract with BT if only for a shiny PVR.

DanRogl

£9.99 sounds alot, their site says Films start from £1.99 which is about inline with virgin (the only other on-demand provider i think?) plus they do a back cataloge of shows, for 59p per ep or a monthly price of £9.

allanmc

Hi,

Just ordered BT Vision via 0800 917 7610.

As I have recently signed up for BT Option 3 Broadband they are installing the BT Vision box for FREE!!!

Don't know if it is available free to option 1 or 2 customers. Didn't think to ask. Too excited at saving the £90 that I was ready to pay. I only called them as I was having problems with their website; lucky me. No word of free kit on the website, so best to call 0800 917 7610.

Yes, there are cheaper broadband services available, but the thrown in evening and weekend internet phone calls, internet phone, wireless router, Norton PC security software, parental controls, 2Gb online vault for backing up files, Yahoo Launchcast+ (great if you like music and have a decent set of speakers on your PC) and now a decent Freeview rival to the excellent Sky+. This little lot will cost £383 (inc £30 Quidco cashback) over the initial 18 month contract for people transferring their broadband to BT. Compare this with my existing Sky+ and Metronet broadband services at £914 for the same 18 month period. The free Sky broadband is not an option for me, and to be honest, it wouldn't be any cheaper anyway.

I will be very sad to see my Sky+ go, but we only watch channels that we get on Freeview, and it is, therefore, an expensive toy.

I plan to sell my Sky+ box and old wireless router, and that will offset the savings even further.

Please note that you will, hopefully, get another cashback if you are a BT shareholder: £30 for Option 1 and £50 for Option 2 and 3. Order via Quidco and claim your rebate at http://www.btshareholder.onlinerebates.com/

Only downside for us is that there isn't a lot of choice on the free service for my 11 year old daughter. I'm afraid that's life, when there is approx £580 to be saved.

oliverp_2

:rolleyes: Just asked if they would do the installation for free. The answer was no.

lemontart

ah thats interesting i have just renewed contract on bt total broadband 3 for 12 months and got new cheaper rate of £24.99 instead of the £26.99 I was paying which is good news.

will call them re installation of vision but want to watch and use in 2 rooms so need an rf cable what ever that is apparently

allanmc

An RF cable is simply the standard co-axial cable (cylindrical connector with a central pin) that your TV aerial uses. I think this can also be known as a UHF lead. The best way to connect your TVs and BT Vision box would be to use the scart connection to feed the TV beside your vision box, assuming your TV has a scart socket, and use the RF output on the box to feed your remote TV. You could also connect cable this to an amplifier if you were feeding multiple TVs and the signal was poor.