Sky To BT

VisionMan

Colin_London wrote: »

Sounds like you are clear on your options. Talk Talk is becoming quite popular for its TV service, not least as they don't insist you take a fibre service to receive it. In the past they were well known for poor customer service but have been improving steadily and now rate better than BT. See this latest research from Ofcom:


http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/tv-research/Quality-Customer-Service-report-December-2013/Quality_of_service_report.pdf

Agree with Colins comments. TalkTalks YouView service has been very well recieved and they have improved their customer service too. But they don't yet have BT Sport.

Twisted_Cherry

Colin_London wrote: »

Yes - a BT Vision+ Box will receive BT Sports 1 & 2 in SD only via your TV aerial if you pay £10 (one-off) for a viewing card. This assumes you are receiving a main terrestrial transmitter and can also receive channels 4Music, ITV4 and Yesterday (which are on the same Mux).

Yes the BT Vision+ box has catch up TV and records. Needs to be connected to your router via a cable or using Powerline adapters for catch up TV and on-demand purchases.

Thank you. SD is fine, Dad's not too fussed about television in HD, in fact he's paying Sky for HD and always forget's to watch the channel in HD! Doh!!!

Router is located next to TV, so connection is no problem and we have a good TV aerial!

Thanks again for your help!

jessmist

I have been in touch with sky again tonight. All i could get was half price line rental for 6 months.
I am still unsure if i should switch to bt now or wait till March as i believe fibre is available sometime in March.

Colin_London

jessmist wrote: »

I have been in touch with sky again tonight. All i could get was half price line rental for 6 months.
I am still unsure if i should switch to bt now or wait till March as i believe fibre is available sometime in March.

If Fibre is that close then i'd wait for it. You can then get the better Youview box and order the range of channels you want from the full BT offering.

Note that if your phone line isn't presently with BT you may have to complete the telephone service switch first before you can order Infinity. I had to do this when moving from O2 to BT. So if you decide to go for the BT TV deal when Infinity becomes available in March then you might want to arrange to switch the telephone across in February.

jessmist

Thanks for the information.
I will check that out.

Colin_London

It's worth asking. It's required on a lot of cases due to the type of product you may be on from your present provider.

It was explained to me that the coordination between the phone line changes at the exchange and the work for Infinity in the cabinet often goes wrong (it's different people doing the work) so the fibre broadband engineers turn up before the phone line has switched.
So they have stopped taking orders for infinity if work is required to make moves at the exchange first.

All I did was order a telephone only service first, waited the two weeks or so for that to complete, and as soon as BTs systems showed it had completed I was allowed to place another order to upgrade to a phone + infinity package which took another couple of weeks. On your case it would be a phone + Infinity + BT TV order. Kept broadband from my old provider in the interim.

But as I say the process varies according to the provider you are currently with so you should check with BT about the best way to do it when you are closer to the time.

jessmist

Thanks for the information.
I will give bt a ring and see what they say. I am with sky at the moment llu broadband. I don't want to be without broadband so maybe I would have to transfer my line, calls and broadband over then in March upgrade fibre.

Niv

jessmist wrote: »

I have been in touch with sky again tonight. All i could get was half price line rental for 6 months.
I am still unsure if i should switch to bt now or wait till March as i believe fibre is available sometime in March.

If the HD channels you mainly watch are BBC1 and itv1 then these are available to me on my sky box on which I have never had a HD subscription (as well as a number of other HD channels tbh). If your main sticking point here is the HD channels and what you will get if you cancelled your HD sub, do that and see.

jessmist

Niv wrote: »

If the HD channels you mainly watch are BBC1 and itv1 then these are available to me on my sky box on which I have never had a HD subscription (as well as a number of other HD channels tbh). If your main sticking point here is the HD channels and what you will get if you cancelled your HD sub, do that and see.

Thanks for that. Sky told me if I cancelled the HD pack I wouldn't get any HD channels.Not even bbc1 .

MataNui

Its almost impossible to figure out what you get for what price with BT. The basics of it though are unless you have infinity you wont get anything more than freeview (oh, but they will give you a youview box). Most of the content packs are not available without infinity and none of the additional standard channels are. That also applies for BT sport which you can only get through the TV with infinity.