The BBC Trust has given go ahead full approval for project canvas. Project Canvas is a unique TV collaboration between BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Five, and telecommunications companies BT and TalkTalk. It seems that project canvas has created a division right down the middle of the entire list of United Kingdom cable TV providers.
While the aforementioned channels and providers are steeply in favor of the free television services offered through project canvas, massive multi channel digital TV providers such as Virgin Media and the satellite TV provider Sky oppose the entire concept of project canvas as being falsely competitive due to a government interference. Project canvas allows for on demand television viewing from the BBC iplayer and almost all of the Freeview channels.
As noted on helpful consumer advice website digitalchoices.co.uk the initial one time price of the project canvas set top box will begin at 200 pounds and as such will price the system out of reach for the majority of UK consumers. It is hoped that mass production of the project canvas set top box will quickly lower the price to the 50 pound range and it is expected that at that time TV packages from the other major United Kingdom providers will be lowered in price due to the increased competition. Another probability is that BT vision and other major UK television providers will subsidize the project canvas on demand boxes as an incentive for their total Home Communications packaging contracts.
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