Has Anyone Got BT TV?

chris.tarry85 · 17 Jan 2017 at 10:28

Just taken a look on the BT website (already have infinity) and get get the UHD 4K box and the "Total Entertainment" pack for £10 a month.

Whilst this doesn't include the "premium" channels, it does include a lot of stuff that either we (Nat Geo etc.) or the kids (Disney) would watch.

It also includes the BT Sport channels.

The reviews of the box also seem pretty good?

In my mind £120 for a year is not noticeably more than a decent freeview recorder would cost? So this seems worth a punt.

Has anyone got any first hand experience?

Thanks

chris.tarry85 · 17 Jan 2017 at 11:29

hood1971 said:
I had BT youview box a couple of years ago and found it very slow and the UI clunky compared to Virgin and Sky boxes. Left them as they were in the continual dispute with Sky, which meant that you could not get Sky sports on their box. I think this has been resolved now.

Thanks, I've seen some awful reviews for the earlier boxes, but the newer ones seem to have improved.

The box in question is this one:
http://www.techradar.com/reviews/audio-visual/digital-tv-receivers/bt-ultra-hd-youview-box-1301334/review

chris.tarry85 · 20 Jan 2017 at 21:59

So close yet so far

"We're really sorry but you can't get our Ultra HD TV package because your estimated broadband speed doesn't support Ultra HD. However, you can choose one of our other great TV packages below"

chris.tarry85 · 23 Jan 2017 at 08:35

james.miller said:
You need infinity 2 for ultraHD

I've had BT tv for 11 months now. When i ordered, i told them i wanted the ultraHD box - it was £1 a month more and had double the storage. I didnt care about the UHD content and I didnt care that you needed infinity 2 (which i cant get, i can only have infinity 1) but they would not budge at all.

tbh i'm not staying with BT. It was a mistake to move away from sky despite the cost saving. the box isnt as good. the hd reception relies on my internet (which is poor) and direction my arial points in (which changes with a slight breeze). At least with sky I only had poor internet to contend with but even that was more stable with sky than it has been with BT. BT routers are just shocking but that's another discussion.

Speed is literally just under the 44mbps requirement - but as you say they won't budge even though I have told them I don't have a 4k TV so won't use the UHD channel.

The ridiculous thing is that this package is the only way to get the "non freeview" channels - Nat Geo etc. in HD. So BT are effectively saying that because of my speed restriction they don't want to sell me a package at all!

Oh well, their loss!

chris.tarry85 · 10 Feb 2017 at 12:51

Well, the plan to get a cheap freeview PVR worked even better than expected.

The day after my box was arrived, I got my BT price increase notification so phoned them to try and negotiate a deal.

They were unwilling to budge on anything, so agreed to let me cancel everything (incl TV.) without any charges.

I'm therefore moving my broadband elsewhere, and have managed to get the PVR for something like £6 (just over 1/2 a months TV subscription)

chris.tarry85 · 10 Feb 2017 at 16:06

varkanoid;30490569 said:
Surprised they didnt ask for the box back as you only just got it. My email arrived today notifying of the price rise. If it wasnt for the TV I'd probably look elsewhere for my broadband too although I`m still considering dropping to Infinity 1 which would save me about £4 for not much less speed.

There is a specific clause in their terms which says you dont have to give anything back if you leave because of a price rise.