'Free; 160Gb PVR for BT broadband customers (it really costs £33)

Wibbly_wobbler

if you already have BT broadband, and want to get rid of your VHS, you can get a 160Gb HDD recorder with a freeview tuner free from BT.

You need to sign up for a further 12/18 months (depending on your original T&Cs.

You can sign up for a regular monthly subscription (£4 for Setanta e.g.) which is fine if you like things like that. There's also a 'watch again' monthly subscription for £3.

You can also sign up instead for a 'pay per view' option. This is free, you jsut pay if you watch programmes.

There is a £60 'connection' fee for the PVR, but this is waived until Sept 1st if you sign up for 1 month of fixed subscription. No doubt in September they're waive it until Oct and so on.

There's an additional connection fee to connect your homehub to the PVR (i.e. plugging in a network cable to connect the two). There's no way around this I could see.

So, you already have broadband. You order the BT Vision which gets you the free PVR. You sign up for the £3 'watch again' monthly subscription, and pay the ripoff £30 homehub connection charge.

Then, after the first few weeks, you go online and switch your subscription to the 'pay-per-view' option which is thereafter free (and they commit to it being eternally free).

At the moment, they say the PVR won't work if you cancel the BT broadband, but the website states that they will be doing a software upgrade during 2007 that will free it up, so it will become a stand-alone PVR. Obviously you'll have committed to a 12/18month minimum contract, so they aren't really losing out by doing that.

Seems a good deal to me, I am not going to pay for Sky or Virgin, I already have BT broadband (and intent to keep it), so £33 for a 160Gb PVR seems like a good deal to me.

blackrat62

The 'box' seems to have twin tuners too - an excellent deal & great post

stpandp

Just to add you will also get a free usb wifi dongle for your computer, as the homehub box has to be located next to the TV

ChemicalBrother_2

Is this available to new BT Broadband customers as well as renewels?

I ask as I've just had a cold call hard sell that's fairly generous with the freebie hardware (even if the cost of the service is near enough what I'm already paying). If I could get this thrown in as well... (wait just saw 1st of Sept - I won't have made up my mind by then anyways!)

Browntoa

yes, just sign up for BTVision....haggle if they say they want to charge

Wickedkitten

The £30 connection charge is probably more for activating the service on their end, rather than plugging it into the homehub. Also, depending on where you live, it may be a few weeks before they can actually come out and install it because apparently there is a very high demand for it. We live in the North East, ordered it on the 10th of August, and it's getting installed on Monday.

squidworth

I assume this is about BT vision...

if so just to add that a lot of people wont be able to get this, I tried last month and got turned down because my BT broadband speed dipped below 2M once or twice the previous month...

When using BT Vision it nabs at least 1.6M of bandwidth at the home hub (modem) so can also affect yer internet speed

derek

TGM

stpandp wrote: »

Just to add you will also get a free usb wifi dongle for your computer, as the homehub box has to be located next to the TV

Just got my installed, I was given the USB dongle, cos he said the hub has to go next to the TV.

Well, its not quite true, its because the installers dont carry ethernet leads more than a couple of metres long

Just buy a nice long one off ebay, put your hub back where it was. Then you can either sell the dongle, or use it on a laptop or summit.:T

TGM

stpandp wrote: »

Just to add you will also get a free usb wifi dongle for your computer, as the homehub box has to be located next to the TV

Just got my installed, I was given the USB dongle, cos he said the hub has to go next to the TV.

Well, its not quite true, its because the installers dont carry ethernet leads more than a couple of metres long

Just buy a nice long one off ebay, put your hub back where it was. Then you can either sell the dongle, or use it on a laptop or summit.:T