BT YOUVIEW TV UNLIMITED CHANNELS TVLike the new BT TV box, you do have the option of pausing and rewinding live TV. Like the hardware that comes with the BT TV Starter Pack, the TalkTalk Essentials TV box is what’s known as a ‘zapper’ in TV industry-speak – it doesn’t have a hard drive so you can’t record programmes. BT YOUVIEW TV UNLIMITED CHANNELS PLUSThis works out at £31.99/month at the standard rate.Īs BT Infinity 1 only comes with a 20GB usage cap, you might want to consider Unlimited BT Infinity 1, which costs £23/month plus £16.99/month for line rental (£39.99/month in total).īT TV Starter plus standard BT Broadband comes with a one-off activation fee of £35 plus a £6.95 delivery charge for the BT Home Hub 5 wireless router, if you choose to take it. The cheapest Infinity service, Infinity 1, costs £15/month plus £16.99/month line rental. If you want things like get BT Sport in HD or take the HD Extra bundle, you’ll need a BT Infinity subscription. If you don’t choose to pay for 12 months of rental up front (£169.90) the total monthly cost works out at £24.49/month. At the time of writing, the cheapest BT Broadband deal will set you back £7.50/month plus £16.99/month for line rental. You’ll need to take a BT Broadband subscription in order to get BT TV. The BT TV Starter Pack costs nothing for the first 18 months but costs £5/month thereafter. BT YOUVIEW TV UNLIMITED CHANNELS FULLYou can also add Sky Movies for £16/month but note that if you’ve not got a BT Infinity subscription, you’ll only be able to access Sky Movies on-demand content – you can’t get the full set of channels if you’ve got an standard ADSL broadband service.īT is also currently selling a bundle which includes BT Infinity 1 (up to 38Mbps, 20GB download cap) Netflix and the BT TV Starter Pack for a discounted price. Netflix can also be added on to any BT TV bundle for an extra £5.99/month. BT Box Office lets you watch movies from £3.50 per film. Other channel bundles including Kids (including Cartoon Network, Disney Channel, Nickelodeon) and BT Music, a music video karaoke service can be added to the BT Starter Pack for an extra £3/month each. BT Infinity is also needed if you want to take the HD Extra bolt-on (£3/month) which gives you access to 13 channels in high definition, including Comedy Central HD, MTV HD and Fox HD. If you want to take the channels in HD you’ll also have to have a BT Infinity FTTC ( Fibre to the Cabinet)-based service. You’ve got the option of getting all of the BT Sport channels in HD for an extra £3/month with the BT TV Starter Pack. You also get access to three BT Sport channels – BT Sport 1, BT Sport 2 and ESPN – for no extra cost. Due to rights issues, not everything will be available on catch-up, so you won’t be able to watch absolutely everything you’ve missed.įor those moments when you want to be able to pause TV if the phone’s ringing (or you want to skip through the adverts) there’s a time buffer, which lets you pause standard definition TV for up to 30 minutes and HD TV for up to 14 minutes.īT-branded YouView boxes also give you access to BBC Connected Red Button and Netflix, which is currently unavailable on TalkTalk’s Huawei-made hardware. With all that catch-up firepower at your disposal you should be able to watch most missed shows. There’s no hard drive, unlike the box which comes with the BT TV Essentials deals, so you can’t record programmes. Like all YouView devices, this gives you access to all of the same channels you’d get on Freeview HD plus streamlined access to BBC iPlayer, ITV Player, 4oD ( soon to be renamed All 4) Demand Five as well as catch-up content from Dave, Really, Yesterday, Quest, STV (in Scotland only) milkshake! and S4C. Battle of the bargain – BT Starter Pack vs TalkTalk Essentials BT TV Starter: What you getīT’s Starter Pack comes with a new type of YouView box, the DB T2200. More to the point, how does it compare to Essentials TV, TalkTalk’s rival budget TV service? Let’s take a closer look. How does that new driveless YouView box measure up and is not being able to record stuff actually that big a deal when you’ve got a comprehensive catch-up suite at your fingertips? BT YOUVIEW TV UNLIMITED CHANNELS FREEBT’s latest TV service might be free – at least for the first 18 months – but what do you get with the new TV Starter?
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