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Question What are my alternatives to Sky for Premiership Football, and what’s best? Submitted online Our Answer This is a tricky one to answer, as it comes down to exactly what you’re looking for from your TV service. At a high level, your choices are: BT Vision Freeview (with Top Up TV) Virgin Media We’re…
Question I have a Sky dish at the moment and I want to change to BT Vision, but I don’t have an aerial. Can I use my Sky dish to receive signal for it? submitted online by Kelly J Our Answer No. Freeview and BT Vision get live TV channels using a TV aerial, not…
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Question I have a BT Vision box and due to needing to save money, I have had to cancel my broadband subscription. I was wondering if its possible to still use the bt vision box I have still got a few programs on I would like to watch before the broadband is cancelled. Submitted online…
Question I have a old BT Vision box. Can I connect it to my new BT Home Hub without setting up an account? Submitted online by Jeremy Our Answer Whether you have the older grey BT Vision+ box, or the second generation black BT Vision+ box, changing to a new BT Home Hub shouldn’t be…
Question Can I use a BT Vision box from a netgear router from Plusnet Submitted online Our Answer No. To get BT Vision, and to use the Vision+ box, you need to be on one of the BT Total Broadband packages. The box needs a connection over the BT network back to the BT Vision…
Question Is MTV available on BT Vision? (Submitted online by John) Our Answer The MTV channel is not available on the BT Vision platform. Although the MTV channel itself isn’t available, some of the on-demand content available on BT Vision comes from MTV, including various MTV documentary series. Also, BT Vision has loads of on-demand…
Question I’m going to get BT Vision and use it in my bedroom where the BT Home Hub is. Will I be able to disconnect it from my tv and lend it to my son in the next bedroom so he can watch anything on it if he wants to? We already have a hole…
Question I’d like to know if I can add kids channels to my BT Vision subscription which will give my daughter the same content as Sky. I’m in the process of cancelling Sky and switching to BT Vision and my daughter informs me that the BT Vision On Demand content for Hannah Montana, Jonas Bros,…
Question I’m thinking of leaving Sky. Will there be more channels available when we switch over to digital in 2012? Also asked: “Are there more new Freeview channels coming to the UK?” (Gordon M) Our Answer We’re not expecting that a new batch of channels will be coming to Freeview once the digital switchover has…
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Question Can you record 2 programmes at the same time on BT Vision, i.e. 2 programmes on at 9pm? (Question submitted online) Our Reply Yes, you can record two channels at once with BT Vision. The BT Vision+ recorder is a twin-tuner device, meaning that it has two Freeview receivers. It can record two different…
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