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Disney-owned ABC will soon be launching an On Demand TV service in the UK. This will be the first such service that ABC has launched outside of the US.
The ABC On Demand service will launch on the 15th of September 2010, offering content such as Desperate Housewives, Private Practice, Criminal Minds, Lost, Ugly Betty and Cougar Town.
Content will be available as part of the £6.99 a month “TV Pack”, or programmes can be purchased on a pay-to-view basis.
More on BT Vision: BT Vision content
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Placeholders for Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2 have been added to the Freeview channel lineup today, the 5th of July 2010.
The channels, currently labelled BT 1 and BT 2, are placeholders for the Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2 service to be offered by BT Vision from August 2010. They can be found on channels 41 and 42 respectively.
As a reminder, with BT Vision, you will be able to get Sky Sports from £6.99 a month, as part of their ongoing campaign to offer cheaper sports than Sky. Sports service ESPN is also on BT Vision (free on some packages)
For full information on BT Vision and Sky Sports, go to BT Vision’s Sports site.
If you’re after details of how BT Vision works, try our new 15 minute podcast review of BT Vision – Listen to our BT Vision Review
More on BT Vision at btvision.bt.com
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With the 2010/11 football season fast approaching, BT Vision has just announced pricing for their Sky Sports service.
Ofcom recently ruled that Sky has to offer their sports content to other TV services at reasonable prices, and this has allowed BT Vision to be able to offer the most popular sports packages at prices significantly lower than Sky’s.
If you’re happy to get your phone and Internet from BT, you could get Sky Sports from just £6.99 a month.
BT’s price announcement comes on the same day as Sky announced that Sky customers will now have to pay an extra £3 a month for the full sporting package – something that will make the BT Vision option all the more appealing to those looking to get footy at a lower price.
There’s another value offer to BT Vision customers – free ESPN when you sign up to a Vision pack (saving £10 a month).
OK – With Sky Sports on BT Vision, you won’t get Sky Sports in HD or the Sky Sports News (due to be removed from Freeview soon), but you will be able to watch all of the football action at lower costs than you’d pay to Sky, and you get access to hundreds of hours of on-demand TV, plus catch up TV from BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Five.
If you’ve discounted the BT Vision option in the past, now is definitely the time to take a fresh look, and we can help:
Our podcast team released a full 15 minute review of BT Vision on the 1st of July – Listen to our BT Vision Review
Also, check out the new BT Vision pricing for Sky Sports 1, Sky Sports 2 and ESPN at btvision.bt.com
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It looks like BT Vision and Top Up TV will be launching an enhanced sports service for the 2010/2010 football season. Good news for football fans not keen, or not able, to have a satellite dish.
Until now, Sky has clung on tightly to their crown jewels, their rights to the majority of the Premier League match coverage, but following a recent ruling by the regulators Ofcom, Sky’s been forced to make their Sports channels available to competitors at a more reasonable rate. Here’s what we know of the proposed offers:
BT Vision: It’s understood that BT Vision plans to offer Sky Sports 1 to subscribers of its on-demand TV service for £15 a month for the 2010/2011 football season. BT Vision customers can also subscribe to ESPN, for matches not covered by Sky. ESPN is currently free to BT Vision Value pack subscribers. More on BT Vision
Top Up TV: We understand that Top UP TV would like to offer both Sky Sports 1 and 2 for around £20 a month from later this year. More on Top Up TV.
We’ll update you as we get more information on the plans to bring Sky Sports to providers other than Sky.
Source: Guardian Online
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Prices for Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2 are set to fall following a ruling by UK TV regulator Ofcom.
Sky has enjoyed a virtual monopoly on sporting content for years, and have now been forced to reduce the wholesale price of their to premium sports channels, to allow other TV providers to offer the channels to their customers.
Sky customers currently pay around £35 a month for access to these Sky Sports packages (£17 for the basic service and an extra £18 a month for Sport).
One of Sky’s key rivals, BT Vision, has already announced plans to offer Sky Sports to its customers at a lower price than Sky, and we can expect Top Up TV to offer Sky Sports on their services. This could mean that UK customers will be able to get Sky Sports via a TV aerial before the 2010/11 football season starts.
BSkyB is not happy with the ruling, and will reportedly be appealing against the decision.
Expect upcoming announcements about cheaper Sky Sports packages in the near future.
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if you’re looking to hook yourself up to BT Vision for thousands of hours of on-demand TV and films on your telly, then you can get yourself a free BT Vision V+ Box until the 26th of March 2010.
In case you’re not familiar with BT Vision, this is a TV service that lets you watch thousands of hours of TV, films and kids shows, as well as sport from ESPN. Content is delivered over Broadband, and the box also lets you record, pause and rewind live TV. You can also watch catch-up TV from the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Five. See the review on our BT Vision pages
The free box offer is for those signing up to any of the BT Vision packages, and will save you £45.
To take advantage of the free BT Vision box, go to www.btvision.bt.com
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Our podcast lads have been hard at work again, and a new audio podcast has just been released.
Catch up on the latest with Freeview HD, the new BT Vision box, more HD channels, some Freesat updates, plus your latest email feedback.
Listen online or download the update from www.frequencycast.co.uk/update.html. Or, if you have an iPod or iPhone, get us from the FrequencyCast Podcast page on iTunes.
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BT Vision has updated its BT Vision V+ set-top box
The new-style box now comes in shiny black, to match the BT Home Hub.
So, what’s new with this new box? Sadly, it doesn’t offer any new whizzy functionality. Some were expecting the new Vision box to support DVB-T2 (needed for Freeview HD), but this one doesn’t. What is does offer is a slight re-design, a new colour, and some changes to the components to make the box a reported 12% more energy efficient. In 2008, BT announced that Motorola would replace Philips as manufacturer of the Vision boxes, so this new box may by a Motorola – we can’t confirm that at this stage.
The new BT Vision V+ box is available for free until January 15th 2010 to new customers and so customers can pick up signing up to any of the BT Vision viewing packs. Full details of the BT Vision offer on BT Vision’s site.
The new-style box is not available to existing BT Vision customers.
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As of today, ESPN is available on BT Vision. If you’re a football fan, you’ll be aware that Setanta Sports went into administration in June 2009, and ESPN acquired the rights to the English and Scottish Premier League matches previously owned by Setanta.
ESPN now has a UK sports channel to cover the Premier League matches, plus other sporting events. ESPN’s UK sports channel went live on Sky and Virgin on the 3rd of August and is now also available on BT Vision.
BT Vision customers will get ESPN at no extra cost if they subscribe to any one of the Vision packages (Bronze, Silver, Gold). This applies to new and existing customers.
If you don’t yet have BT Vision, BT’s also running on online exclusive deal – if you sign up to a BT phone, TV or Broadband package, you’ll get 3 months of free broadband. Include a BT Vision package for inclusive ESPN. More details: productsandservices.bt.com
Coverage of the Barclays Premier League starts from Saturday the 15th of August 2009 with Everton vs Arsenal. Then there’s the West Ham vs Tottenham Hotspurs match the following Sunday – both exclusively live on ESPN.
Top-Up TV customers can also get ESPN – for a monthly subscription of £9.99 a month. New customers signing to Top Up TV will get the first month for free, then it’s £9.99 a month.
Latest info, prices and links: radioandtelly.co.uk/channels/espn.html
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BT’s announced that they’ll be bringing High Definition Video on Demand to their BT Vision TV service by the end of Summer 2008.
Existing BT Vision set-top boxes are being updated throughout August 2008 to a new version of software, 1.2.14642.551, which supports the HD service as well as fixing a number of minor bugs.
Due to the amount of data needed for High Definition, you won’t be able to watch HD content streamed over your Broadband connection – instead, you select HD content from the on-screen list, and its downloaded onto the BT Vision box’s drive.
Pricing: Blockbuster movies will cost £4.95 each, with older films being priced from £2.95.
More on BT Vision on our Vision Expored page, or at btvision.bt.com
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News in of prices for the BT Vision Sports service, due to start in August 2007…
For the 2007/08 football season, there’ll be 46 live Barclays Premier League games carried on BT Vision. There’ll also be access to 242 same-day Premier League matches, which will be available hours after kick-off (from 10pm). In addition, there will be 60 live Clydesdale Bank Premier League games, 125 games from the Football League and Carling Cup, live US PGA Tour golf and access to BT Vision’s library of classic sport.
There are four pricing options, as follows:
BT Vision Standard Sports (£4 a month): 242 Premier League games shown a few hours after kick off (from 10pm). 125 matches from the Coca-Cola Football League and Carling Cup. Plus access to a library of classic sport
Setanta Sports (£9.99 a month): Setanta Sports. Including 46 live Premier League games and live US PGA Tour golf.
Total Sports (£12 a month): Both Standard and Setanta packages
Pay Per View: You can watch individual Premier League games for £1.99 per game
With BT Vision Sport, there’s no annual subscription fee. Pay on-demand per game, or subscribe on a monthly basis.
The BT Vision set-top box is currently free, as long as you’re a BT Total Broadband subscriber
More details at www.radioandtelly.co.uk/btvision.html
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Today (4th December 2006), details of the BT Vision home TV service have finally been released.
BT Vision provides you with a special set-top box, called a V-Box that connects to the BT Home Hub and BT Total Broadband, to offer the following:
There’s no subscription for BT Vision, and all you pay for is the one-off installation/connection fee. You do need a BT Total Broadband account. For the downloadable content, you can pay in two ways:
The BT Vision V-box (worth £199) is being supplied FREE to
BT Total Broadband customers. There’s a connection fee of £30, and as the installation requires an engineer’s visit, there’s an installation fee of £60 – including V-Box, Home Hub and PC/laptop adapter setup.
More details: Sign up to BT Total Broadband , BT Vision information, our BT Vision Mailing List.
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Announcements continue to come thick and fast regarding the new TV and video-on-demand service from BT – BT Vision. Still billed for “Autumn 2006″, this combines Freeview TV, and TV/film content downloaded over BT Broadband. Most recent addition to the lineup, is Disney / Buena Vista TV, with their huge range of TV and films.
BT Vision is set to be a very exciting offering. More on our BT Vision page
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