Homechoice £13 a month

This is an amazing deal www.homechoice.co.uk
If this service rolls out of London I'm having it


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"·.¸¸.·´¯`Underground Zero´¯`·.¸¸.·" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> This is an amazing deal www.homechoice.co.uk
> If this service rolls out of London I'm having it
>

£13.75 for 1st 3 months only, if ordered by 16th July

http://www.homechoice.co.uk/hc_packages.html

* Usual price for 512k £27.50, 1Mb £35.00, Half price for
first 3 months if ordered by 16th July. Pay-per-rental,
TV Bundle and Premium Package prices will apply.
Subject to terms and conditions, 12 month contract
and local availability. BT line required.

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> This is an amazing deal www.homechoice.co.uk
> If this service rolls out of London I'm having it
>


How does the TV work?
Looks like a Freeview/Topup TV STB to me.
The site says you have got to have ADSL available but doesn't seem to
mention that you've got to be in range of a DTT transmitter.

> How does the TV work?
> Looks like a Freeview/Topup TV STB to me.
> The site says you have got to have ADSL available but doesn't seem to
> mention that you've got to be in range of a DTT transmitter.

The TV service is provided via a BT phone line and has nothing to do with
DTT.

"Graham" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
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> How does the TV work?

Over ADSL it's REAL Video on demand not like the Sky Digi nonsense and Tivo.
All content is stored on Remote Content servers at the HC server centres and
you control what you want to watch and when based on the content they
supply.

> Looks like a Freeview/Topup TV STB to me.

Totally off the mark - look at their website for how it works.

> The site says you have got to have ADSL available but doesn't seem to
> mention that you've got to be in range of a DTT transmitter.
>
Why a DTT transmitter? ADSL doesn't require it so why would HC ;-)


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On 02 Jul 2004 in uk.telecom.broadband, "catherine" wrote:

>£13.75 for 1st 3 months only, if ordered by 16th July

>* Usual price for 512k £27.50, 1Mb £35.00, Half price for first 3
> months if ordered by 16th July. Pay-per-rental, TV Bundle and
> Premium Package prices will apply.

Thanks for the warning. It still looks fairly good value if one has no Sky
or Freeview and wants extra channels. I don't know how good the quality is
for services like Channel 5, but I already have a Freeview and Sky box (out
of contract, so pay them nothing). I'd certainly be tempted as they seem to
include some channels in their "Broadcast TV" line-up which need a sub with
Sky to be viewable (Discovery, E4, Paramount for starters). Peter M.

"poster" <us-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I don't know how good the quality is
> for services like Channel 5, but I already have a Freeview and Sky box
(out
> of contract, so pay them nothing). I'd certainly be tempted as they seem
to
> include some channels in their "Broadcast TV" line-up which need a sub
with
> Sky to be viewable (Discovery, E4, Paramount for starters). Peter M.

I have seen a couple of HomeChoice installations - this is from before they
launched their LLU service and were relying on BT VideoStream.. and I have
to say the quality of the TV/Video on Demand wasn't at all bad.

With LLU they have even more bandwidth to play with..

The only thing I would have liked to see improve was the time taken to
change between menu's etc to choose what you wanted to watch.. no doubt
partly contributable to the fact that they liked playing "hi quality" music
with each menu (with different music for each menu) so buffering that
sometimes took time.

Of course, the service is limited to SW/W/NW London at the moment - with a
"all London" rollout expected by the end of the year.

HomeChoice have never (yet) in 5 years offered a service outside the M25 -
perhaps their LLU solution is more viable than the BT VideoStream one
though.. I once worked out they could be losing up to £70/month a customer
on that...

Regards
Sunil

"Sunil Sood" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> HomeChoice have never (yet) in 5 years offered a service outside the M25 -
> perhaps their LLU solution is more viable than the BT VideoStream one
> though..

The wholesale price on Videostream was the problem Sunil the LLU option is
much more viable for them now.

I once worked out they could be losing up to £70/month a customer
> on that...

It was in fact costing considerably more than that per subscriber in the old
days and if they left the service you can work out roughly how long they'd
need to subscribe to re-coup that cost ;-)


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