Moving from Sky to BT TV

SAM81 · 4 Oct 2016 at 21:14

Currently with Sky, paying around £50 for basic everything, phone, TV and broadband.

Have the option for of moving over to BT for around £17 per month. That's for TV, phone and broadband and is inclusive of the line rental.

Thing is I cant find anywhere that tells me how the TV part of BT actually works... i.e does it run off your broadband or via the aerial on top of my house?

If its the broadband i'll have a problem as our line cannot get anything faster than 2mb. If it's the aerial, I'm pretty sure i'll need to get someone out as it doesn't appear to be connected.

Anyone got BT TV and can clarify for me?

RJC · 4 Oct 2016 at 21:21

The normal freeview channels operate over the tv Ariel, the premium channels are over broadband. My parents just changed from BT to Virgin.

The box they found very frustrating to use and would crash at least once a week.

SAM81 · 4 Oct 2016 at 21:25

RJC said:
The normal freeview channels operate over the tv Ariel, the premium channels are over broadband. My parents just changed from BT to Virgin.

The box they found very frustrating to use and would crash at least once a week.

I'm less worried about the TV experience, as long as it's comparable to freeview then it's fine.

So, looks like I need to get the aerial sorted first then. Thanks

bulletv1 · 5 Oct 2016 at 09:38

I had BT TV and moved to sky.
Works just as RJC said. I left due to my broadband line provided by bt kept cutting out or slowing down resulting in channels taking ages to load or just not recording. And also losing Fox and they allowed to me leave my contract early for free.
Not sure if they updated it but i found the EPG to be clunky on it.
But general viewing should be fine as long as your broadband is quick enough,

jpaul · 5 Oct 2016 at 10:34

which BT tv boxes had you had that were poor ?
seems you get either Humax DTR-T2100 500GB and humax is normally reliable - not clunky ?
they have their newer Ultra1TB DTR-T4000 too.

I am about to move to BT from plus-net, and already have a reliable freeview recorder (humax fox t2), but had thought that the additional sd channels (via broadband : better quality than sky) and Netflix access were attractive in the BT boxes, but, if even the basic freeeview capability&recording is poor I will re-think.

bulletv1 · 5 Oct 2016 at 11:00

jpaul said:
which BT tv boxes had you had that were poor ?
seems you get either Humax DTR-T2100 500GB and humax is normally reliable - not clunky ?
they have their newer Ultra1TB DTR-T4000 too.

I am about to move to BT from plus-net, and already have a reliable freeview recorder (humax fox t2), but had thought that the additional sd channels (via broadband : better quality than sky) and Netflix access were attractive in the BT boxes, but, if even the basic freeeview capability&recording is poor I will re-think.

I had the humax box. I liked the box but it was navigating the epg and menus which was slow and clunky. My boss also left his bt tv (also had sky) as the resolution on the picture was lower than sky's.