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

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.

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.

More on BT Vision

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: 3 Months free Broadband offer

Coverage of the Barclays Premier League starts from Saturday the 15th of August 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