BT Vision PVR to offer replay TV service

[The News Bot]

BT will offer its V-Box PVR free of charge to subscribers to its Total Broadband package. The telecoms giant has also confirmed that the Freeview ready personal video recorder will offer a Replay TV service, designed to allow viewers to catch up with a selection of broadcast TV programmes from the previous [...]
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[mr gadget]

Originally Posted by R Thomson

BT will offer its V-Box PVR free of charge to subscribers to its Total Broadband package. The telecoms giant has also confirmed that the Freeview ready personal video recorder will offer a Replay TV service, designed to allow viewers to catch up with a selection of broadcast TV programmes from the previous [...]
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Apparantly the box is also HD ready. It will be interesting to see if they braodcast HD content straight away, such as football, or it maybe just they are future - proofing themselves.
Lets hope that when / if they do, it will be cheaper than Sky

[spiderman78]

Originally Posted by mr gadget

Apparantly the box is also HD ready. It will be interesting to see if they braodcast HD content straight away, such as football, or it maybe just they are future - proofing themselves.
Lets hope that when / if they do, it will be cheaper than Sky

HD element is only future proofing for now.

[mrgrill]

Does anyone know what type of content you will get with this service (specifics and not just sport, films etc). I know you get the 40 FV channels, and paid for downloads such as films, music etc. But how does this compare to Sky. I have sky already and watch shows such as Lost, 24, BSG on Skyone. Will this BT Vision box offer shows like these for downloads? I imagine not.

Unless it can better sky+ for range of content, I'll probably pass. I am intrigued about this though.

[Papua]

Looking at the website you have to use BT as your broadband ISP to be able to use this service. So for those that don't want to be tied into BT with their broadband then it's not available.