Sure, I don't have a TV licence so I never watch "live" (as it's being broadcast) TV online

In reply to a post by pcoventry76:

I don't see the problem with talktalk. I've tried a few times to swtich my folks across their deal does seem okay and my folks's exchange is TT LLU or BT adsl.

They get 6mbps now. But when I had a flat in 2011 I got 13mbps from Be over LLU and I was further away than they are from their exchange so they could well get double too.

There's also a very good chance not a lot of people are on it and even if the whole exchange was that would only be 1000 people.

The problem with TalkTalk is they don't have BT Sport.

Ok, they have Sky Sports, but it's £30/Month. Plus I think their Youview box isnt as good as the Humax model offered by BT

I had thought the BT TV via ADSL2+ option was only open to Sky Sports subscribers who formerly received via their TV aerials. If they happened to be connected to an exchange that has been upgraded to multicast (but for whatever reason could not get or didn't want Infinity) they were being given the option to keep getting Sky Sports via ADSL2+.

As they are high spending customers you can perhaps understand why BT went out of their way to retain them. But similarly as they already had BT Vision boxes you can see that BT may have only tested the service with BT Vision boxes.

Upgrade of the L2 switches for multicast at an exchange generally happens in parallel with the introduction of FTTC. So, apart from a few cabinets that haven't been upgraded, it's perhaps understandable that BT want to encourage new BT TV customers onto Infinity connections rather than spending time ensuring Youview boxes work with BT TV over ADSL2+.