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Tiscali TV (formerly Homechoice)

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This page offers some details on Tiscali TV's digital TV service.


What is Tiscali TV?

Tiscali TV is a home digital TV service. Until March 2007, the service was known as Homechoice. Tiscali TV uses your existing phone line to deliver over 70 digital TV channels, movies on demand, and broadband Internet.

Rather than having to pay for digital TV, broadband and your phone company - you can get all of these services for a single low monthly fee.

Tiscali TV is only available in certain parts of the UK. These areas include:

  • London
  • Birmingham
  • Liverpool
  • Leicester
  • Wolverhampton
  • Salford
  • Stevenage
  • Milton Keynes
  • Warrington

To see if you're in a coverage area, go to tiscali.co.uk/tv

The company has announced plans for a UK-wide service in the future.

When you sign to Tiscali TV, you're supplied with a special decoder box with connect to your phone line and TV. Once connected, you then have access to digital TV, plus their other services.

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What does Tiscali TV offer?

  • Over 70 channels of digital TV
  • Over 1500 movies available on demand - you decide when you watch
  • On-demand TV that you can pause, rewind & fast forward
  • "Replay" - Access to recently-broadcast shows for a seven day period
  • Over 5000 music videos available
  • 20 digital radio channels
  • Broadband for your PC (up to 8Meg)
  • A telephone service with free calls to UK landlines

More details at tiscali.co.uk/tv

Tiscali TV Channels

Tiscali TV offers over 70 channels of digital TV, over 1500 on-demand movies, over 5000 music videos, hundreds of TV series, and a TV rewind service.

Digital TV channels include:

Sky One, Sky Two, Sky Three, Comedy Central, GOLD, the Sci-Fi channel, BBC Three, E4, More4, ITV2, ITV3, ITV4, Film4, Discovery, National Geographic, Chelsea TV, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, CBeebies, Sky Sports, Sky Movies, and more.

With Tiscali TV, as well as TV and movies, you can also get up to 8Mb broadband and free phone calls to UK landlines, offering savings over other Internet and phone providers.

 

How do I get Tiscali TV?

Take a look at tiscali.co.uk/tv to see if you're in their TV and Broadband coverage area.

When you order your account, you'll arrange an appointment for an engineer to call to get everything connected for you.

 

Tiscali TV+ PVR

You can now get a PVR (digital recorder) for use with Tiscali TV. The PVR can hold 50 hours of TV. It has the ability to record up to three things at once - a digital stream of TV-over-Internet, as well as two Freeview channels (if you connect the box to a TV aerial). Record TV-over-Internet onto the PVR and play back on your telly.

The PVR is available now for £50, on top of the month subscription. More at tiscali.co.uk/tv

 

Alternatives

Tiscali TV is not available in all parts of the UK. If you're looking for an Internet-based service that's available to a larger part of the UK - Take a look at BT Vision or Virgin Media.

For the widest choice of digital TV, check out Sky Digital - who are also offering free broadband.

 

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