BT TV

Cheetah Designs · 11 May 2015 at 07:33

I want to be able to watch all the premier league games that are on TV. I can't get Sky or Virgin so as far as I understand, I have to look at BT.

Can anyone tell me how BT TV works? Virgin comes over cable, Sky through the dish...how does BT TV work?

Am I right in saying that I only need to get Sky Sports 1 as an extra. I have had a look back through the TV listings and I can only see the english games on Sky Sports 1?

darknite · 11 May 2015 at 07:58

BT TV is part TV aerial and part broadband. Can only get some channels with BT Infinity fibre. To be honest i'm not impressed with it over Virgin I had previously or friends sky boxes.

glenimp617 · 11 May 2015 at 08:00

you can only get the extra channels if your exchange is multicast enabled

AsLan · 11 May 2015 at 10:55

The BT sport part is via the aerial if you have the bt tv package. Otherwise it's on line

Cheetah Designs · 13 May 2015 at 21:03

Is it only Sky Sports 1 I need for premier league?

picnic · 13 May 2015 at 22:40

Sky and BT both show premier league footy, premiership rugby is on BT only.

Cheetah Designs · 14 May 2015 at 07:35

Sorry, what I meant was....BT offer both Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2....I have the option to just get Sky Sports 1, will that cover all the premier league games that sky air?

Dsteviedee · 14 May 2015 at 13:59

Yes Sky use Sky1 For Premier League matches, but Champions League channels vary.

Jae-So · 14 May 2015 at 19:15

BT sport is always via the Internet. BT TV is basically Freeview + broadband channels. I had it was okay when it worked, but it rarely worked. BT let me out of my contract early because they were that **** basically. I'd skip them

picnic · 15 May 2015 at 08:09

BT Sport can be received via a satellite dish, it's not Internet only.

Cheetah Designs · 15 May 2015 at 08:22

So the reason I can't get Virgin or Sky is because I am in a leashold flat...so I won't be able to get a dish for sky either.

So if I have understood correctly, I need to have decent internet otherwise its not worth bothering....

BT reports I can get 70Mbps, should be enough right?

koooowweeee · 15 May 2015 at 08:29

5Does it say in the lease agrement you can't have sky or Virgin?

I do maintenance at a block of flats and they can have whatever they want. The dish can be removed and the holes in the wall can be patched up if that's the issue?

70mbps is way enough. I'm on 50 and it's totally fine. But as always faster is better :-D

cyclops12 · 15 May 2015 at 09:44

Jae-So said:
BT sport is always via the Internet. BT TV is basically Freeview + broadband channels. I had it was okay when it worked, but it rarely worked. BT let me out of my contract early because they were that **** basically. I'd skip them

You've always been able to get BT sport via BT TV, you just need to have Infinity.

With normal BT broadband you can only view it online.

Jae-So · 16 May 2015 at 04:56

picnic said:
BT Sport can be received via a satellite dish, it's not Internet only.

Yes, you are right sorry, forgot about satellite.

cyclops12 said:
You've always been able to get BT sport via BT TV, you just need to have Infinity.

With normal BT broadband you can only view it online.

You still get it on your TV through the router/ broadband, that's what I meant. The channels are not through the aerial so if your broadband connection went down so would the channels. Mine was down constantly.

cyclops12 · 16 May 2015 at 18:46

Jae-So said:
You still get it on your TV through the router/ broadband, that's what I meant. The channels are not through the aerial so if your broadband connection went down so would the channels. Mine was down constantly.

Ahh sorry I mistook what you meant

AsLan · 16 May 2015 at 23:39

BT sport is through a standard aerial. You need to take either a standard broadband or an infinity connection though. As far as I am aware champions league is moving to BT next season, don't know if it's all games or just some.

picnic · 17 May 2015 at 09:05

Can you really get BT Sport through the aerial? The BT site says

There are 3 ways to watch

On the Sky Digital Satellite Platform
If you have a Sky box and an active Sky viewing card (whether or not you have a Sky subscription) you can easily take BT Sport from us. You don't need to be a BT customer - but if you have our broadband, it's free. And it's only available direct from BT.

On BT TV with BT Infinity or BT Broadband
Get live sport in your living room with a BT TV and broadband package.

On the BT Sport App or on btsport.com
You can watch the action on your PC or Mac, or on your smartphone or tablet using the BT Sport App. You need a BT ID to access the BT Sport App and watch online. If you don't have a BT ID yet, you can create one now.

No mention of aerials anywhere. The 2nd option I'm sure is the multicast one, i.e. through your Internet connection.

Jae-So · 17 May 2015 at 21:25

I really don't think you can. When I had the BT youview box the channel was still supplied through my broadband connection.

AsLan · 18 May 2015 at 15:19

My mistake. It was originally available via aerial, but it looks like they've removed that option for new customers last year. I would imagine that even for customers who could still get it via aerial that it dissapear eventually.