BT Vision

If you leave BT will vision still work as a PVR, not fussed about VOD?

Not as far as I know, it doesn't have the line profile on the server and doesn't serve anything up not even recordings.

When I plugged Vision into my Be line, it completely disabled the box including the Freeview.

I beleive it gets some of the EPG from the internet and talks to home, so as others have shown it looks to be locked to ISP currently. I think the Freeview side works but not no PVR

Thats a [censored] as I find it far superior as a PVR than SKY+. Lot easier to watch and record.

Thats right - it'll never work outside of BTs network - it gets its entire EPG from BT servers. Recordings are also scheduled remotely - so yes - it just becomes a freeview box with no programme info, EPG or PVR facilities.

Staying with BT now ?

Nope freeview wont work either as once it's unplugged it needs to connect to BT's servers for its bootstrap.

Rumours are they are working on a stand-alone Vision service but nothing has been announced yet.

It should have been here from the start but it appears to have been abandoned. They had a lot of problem getting it working without a connection to the Vision servers.

Not even that as the first time that it needs to reboot it will stop working.

Would VOD work in an area NOT covered by Freeview yet

Edited by deleted (Sat 12-Apr-08 19:19:05)

Nope, moving to BE or Sky. Not a heavy DL but I dont like restrictions when I want to do it. Much rather have usage limit than throthling

yes

however getting a vision box in an area not covered by freeview would be quite hard unless you were allready a vision customer and homemoved your kit to new address

Thanks Geordie

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