BT to announce there net TV this week

[dvtimes]

BT to announce there net TV this week

It will be interesting news. BT are to announce there launch of there new TV. I remember they were wanting to start there own TV even before cable TV was available, but they were not allowed due to competition laws. So this will not be something just rushed out. They have planed this for years.

This will be broadband TV.

They can easily dominate the market by offering all there customers cheap or even free boxes. After all they know who has broadband.

Now will this change the way we use broadband?

The question is, if broadband TV takes off, will people surf sites less, or will the broadband TV boxes allow you to view websites?

[Damian]

The question is, if broadband TV takes off, will people surf sites less, or will the broadband TV boxes allow you to view websites?

The box allows you to view websites.

According to the bloke here who has seen it.

[dvtimes]

The box allows you to view websites.

According to the bloke here who has seen it.Well its going to be interesting then what BT is going to anounce.

I wonder if they give it to peple free ig you use BT broadband?

[gawdi]

BT had this up and running 10 years ago.. the labs at martlesham developed it and tested it in a village in suffolk...
The government wouldnt let them do anything with it cause they didnt want to upset the stream of donations coming in from the then fledgeling cable companies who were spending a fortune digging up every pavement in the UK..
The hardware used at that time was basically apple macs which reconstructed a degraded signal which had come down the copper telephone line....
I think BT had invested a good few million quid before shelving the project.....
8Mb broadband is becomming common place now... next time bt upgrade their exchanges 100mb will be the norm....

[xcite-tv]

BT had this up and running 10 years ago.. the labs at martlesham developed it and tested it in a village in suffolk...
The government wouldnt let them do anything with it cause they didnt want to upset the stream of donations coming in from the then fledgeling cable companies who were spending a fortune digging up every pavement in the UK..
The hardware used at that time was basically apple macs which reconstructed a degraded signal which had come down the copper telephone line....
I think BT had invested a good few million quid before shelving the project.....
8Mb broadband is becomming common place now... next time bt upgrade their exchanges 100mb will be the norm....

We have been working with people in this market for 6 years
BT were having problems then and were talking about Army barrack instalations and all sorts Yes they had problems with copper cables and pulled out
But times have changed and technology now exists for a digital signal to be send via copper.

We worked with a company (and still do) who came up with a solution to convert digital signals down co-axial cabling..It was done for a new adult SKY channel which never materialised to sell the channel to such instalations

The technology is there and there are various claims as to who is doing what with it So it looks like it still the same as it was 4-5 years ago
lots of talk has to end somewhere.

It got so bad for us we used to play business speak bingo in meetings..
we made cards with business words on them and when we crossed them all out shouted "Bingo" and walked out

Thats why we are here now Ignoring every other market for adult but the web.. where we control our own destiny

[dvtimes]

As I say, BT do broadband, have a ton of broadband customers.

Its not going to be hard for them to get the boxes out to people.

In fact as somone said if you can get the internet on it, it will be a great selling point for those who do not have or do not want a pc.