BT vision from BT TV offers a unique alternative

September 21st, 2009 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Press Releases

As hard as it may be to believe, not everyone adores television. For some it is a mere convenience or diversion and plays a simple and small role as part of their communications network. Indeed many people prefer to interact more directly with the world by means of their computer and broadband. For those people for whom 500 channels of digital TV and music are unneeded, BT TV offers a superb alternative. That choice, which coincidentally was announced at digitalchoices.co.uk, is BT vision.

BT Vision is the television arm of BT broadband. In fact subscribers to BT broadband receive the BT vision based package which includes Freeview at zero cost. As BT vision is aimed at selective digital TV viewers, specialized programming is all offered on a pay per play basis. To compare BT vision and other popular digital television alternatives such as those offered by Tiscali and Virgin TV, one should visit the Digital Choices site.

Aside from news and announcements pertaining to digital TV, Digital Choices also provides, at no charge to the public, unbiased reviews and comparisons of prices and service for the varied telecommunications products now most in demand throughout the United Kingdom. Also available free of charge at digitalchoices.co.uk is a helpful digital TV price and availability comparison tool that allows the user to find the best deal for television and broadband in any targeted UK area.

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Digital TV now reaches 90% of British Homes

September 1st, 2009 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Press Releases

Almost 23,000,000 households in the United Kingdom are now equipped with a DTV receiver. This figure being in sharp contrast to just 10 years before, when more than half of UK viewers received their television by means of analog signal.

Obviously the ongoing and almost complete changeover from analog to Digital TV has played a major role in this development. However, the greater cause is probably due to simple advances in electronics overall. Development of low cost high resolution wide screen televisions with built in digital tuning is one of the largest factors in digital TV growth. Most of the UK has abandoned the use of Freeview set top boxes in favor of hundred channel cable TV.

Suppliers such as Virgin TV rush to meet the growing demand with massive operations in place for the installation of fiber optic cable throughout the United Kingdom. Noted consumer protection resource Digital Choices points out that the inclusion of digital programming recorders as incentives for cable TV sign up has even further heightened demand. In contrast to the use of digital TV recorders many programming networks such as ITV now offer total on demand programming. It would seem that digital TV continues to make customized viewing the entertainment norm.

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BT TV and a program for people who don’t watch much television

August 21st, 2009 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Press Releases

For whatever reason there are some people who simply don’t watch a great deal of television. For these people BT TV offers a very unique service which we will refer to as pay as you go TV.

To qualify for BT Television you must contract for Broadband through BT. Your television service is based on Freeview with an additional rate of four pounds per month added to a very low broadband base package. Still, why pay for more than you need? With BT Vision you purchase specialty programs such as movies and sports events at a reasonable per viewing price. The interesting thing about this program is that you are actually not buying cable TV as a separate entity.

You’re purchasing your cable TV as an addendum to your broadband. What this says is that how you bundle your telecommunications packages can vastly affect the price you pay. To further understand package savings on Digital TV go to digitalchoices.co.uk. At the digital choices website you will find all manner of news and information relative to prices and service for digital TV.

You’ll also find a simple to use digital TV price comparison tool. Into this tool you enter your post code and select whether you are interested in straight TV packages or bundling of TV and broadband. BT Vision is certainly not a package for everyone and those who watch the prerequisite 8 hours of television daily are far more likely to opt for plans from Tiscali or Virgin. But for those whose lives are lived primarily without the assistance of a television or computer screen, BT Vision may be a perfect alternative

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Bundling telecommunications with Virgin TV

August 11th, 2009 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Press Releases

In order to receive a great deal for digital TV from Virgin Media you must combine that purchase with either home phone service or broadband connection, or as Virgin Media would no doubt prefer a package of all three. While many people have chosen to rely on mobile phone service entirely for their phone usage, far more people still prefer the consistency and reliability of home phone service.

As to broadband, one would think that a consumer looking for 50 plus premium television channels is also a regular Internet surfer. So when we consider the restriction placed by Virgin Media so as to qualify for their television service, it is likely not much of a restriction at all. That said we can consider various cable TV packages as offered by Virgin TV. Virgin TV offers three channel package options.

These are presented as one might buy a T shirt in medium, large, and extra large. The base price for a television package including the basic phone line is 11 pounds per month. Prices travel upward to 86 pounds per month for what is referred to as the Virgin Media VIP package.

As with Digital TV from other providers such as the BT Vision package, value largely depends upon your planned usage. However, if you have a household populated with all different age groups a Virgin TV extra large package is likely to be your immediate choice. For assistance in evaluating digital TV both with and without broadband please visit digitalchoices.co.uk.

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Virgin Cable TV and 4G communications

July 29th, 2009 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Press Releases

The world is rapidly moving towards what is called the fourth generation of global communication. While primarily a reference to mobile and home phone usage, 4G as it is called goes further than use in simple mobile phones. Indeed the combined use of Digital TV, broadband and home phone service has cleared a path for what will soon be one stop shopping for total home communications pricing. The speed of 4G communications may be a few years away but low priced bundling of Cable TV is here this very minute. Fabulous deals are available from Tiscali and Virgin TV.

These low prices are made possible by private fibre optics cable networks. On these networks signals for TV, home phone and broadband travel at almost the speed of light. In fact the only deterrent to actual speed of light communication is our ability to process the information we send. All of this equates to little for the average person in terms of convenience. It does however equate to substantial savings over the course of a single year for TV and broadband. Noted digital TV information website, Digital Choices reports that customers combining two or more communications services will on average save £30.00 pounds per month over the cost of these same services purchased separately.

To see for yourself the incredible savings available by bundling TV and other communications services got to digitalchoices.co.uk. On site you will find a TV price and service comparison tool that will allow you to check for the lowest prices and latest technology available to your home location.

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BT TV finds stiff competition from Virgin and Tiscali

July 16th, 2009 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Press Releases

The days when British Telecom could set a price for cable TV and command its payment are far behind us. Indeed, despite their vast financial resources BT TV is hard pressed to compete with rivals Tiscali and Virgin TV. The means by which Tiscali is able to offer packages of TV, Home Phone and Broadband for as little as £20.00 per month remains a mystery. How that little Italian company does it, we may never know. But Sir Richard Branson and Virgin TV’s methodology is as clear as Digital TV. Ever undaunted by a challenge, Virgin is steadfastly laying fibre optic cable across the UK. Fibre optics allow approximately 1000 times the flow of information per strand as does now obsolete BT copper cable. This allows Virgin TV to offer fabulous deals on TV, Broadband and phone.

BT has long promised a conversion to fibre optics on their end, even going so far as to sign a million new subscribers in 2005 on the strength of this promise. As yet that promise remains unfulfilled. Unfortunately lower priced services such as those offered by Tiscali and Virgin TV are only available in certain parts of the UK. Still that territory grows everyday and in all likelihood your street may be fibre optics ready. To find out if you can get a great deal on cable TV as well as broadband go to digitalchoices.co.uk. There you will find a most handy Cable TV and Broadband availability tool. Simply type in your postcode to learn which Digital TV companies now serve your location.

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Digital TV has entered a new era of choices

July 11th, 2009 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Press Releases

For those who don’t appreciate the value of intense competition, consider this. Thirty years ago TV in the UK was a government regulated medium with just a few channels and all of that sent by terrestrial airwaves. Programming was limited to that which could be accommodated by small budgets. Today British television quality is the standard for the world. We have hundreds of channels filled with exciting programmes from every country in the commonwealth and every corner of the world. All of these give the viewer a multitude of televised entertainment choices. With all of this fine programming to choose from including live sports, movies from America, and original UK shows, it only makes sense that we have choices in the area of how much TV we want to buy. Yes there is still free television and with a set top box, Digital TV in the form of Freeview is plenty of entertainment for some. But many people prefer a hundred channels to choose from and for that privilege they are willing to pay. This of course raises the questions, how much to pay, and to whom? We no longer pay a few quid a month for simple cable TV. Now we can very well pay a 100 pounds per month for 52″ wide screen home theatre. All of this is well and fine so long as we make sure we get exactly what we want for a completely fair price.

So not only do we choose from almost infinite programming, we also choose the company that sends it to us. To facilitate this choice we turn to digitalchoices.co.uk. Digital Choices offers a free onsite television cost comparison tool. All one need do is enter their postcode into a search box and click to receive an instant display of all the best deals from Virgin TV, BT TV, Tiscali and others. And all of the comparisons are location specific to your home.

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The closest thing to free line rental available

June 30th, 2009 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Press Releases

A very old expression from the 1920s goes, “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.” The UK equivalent today would be, “There’s no such thing as free line rental.” There are great deals to be had these days for home phone and broadband, but the base price of line rental, that is the cost to have a home phone connected to your door, remains fixed at around 11 pounds due every month. This is because British Telecom owns almost every metre of copper cable strung throughout Britain. We say “almost every” because Virgin Media has strung their own wire around the UK and is on their way to breaking that aspect of the BT landline monopoly. Still Virgin does not offer free line rental and neither company has the best deal on home phone service. Which UK phone company offers the best prices and services?

This absolutely depends on where in the UK you live. Depending on this you may be able to save up to 50% on your cost for phone, TV and broadband. To discover the best deal for your city, visit Homephonechoices.co.uk. There you will find reviews and price comparisons for all communications services available in the United Kingdom. At Home Phone Choices you will find a handy Home Phone Price Comparison tool that will display all of the most competitive deals for phone service in your city and on your street. You will also find complete instructions on how to change providers and save quite a few pounds every month.

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A replacement for BT landline technology is on the way

June 21st, 2009 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Press Releases

One has to give Sir Richard Branson and Virgin Media credit. No one else in the last one hundred years has had the courage to directly compete with British telecom in the area of line rental. For those unaware, most of our TV, Internet connection and Telephone service reaches our homes via a copper line carrying signals directly to our favorite appliance. Virgin TV has been actively running new, fibre optic cable all over Britain for the last decade. Mind you this was not so much to compete with BT landline business but so as to garner market share in the combined home phone and broadband area. And while BT has promised us all high speed fibre optic connections for over five years now only Virgin has been laying the superior infrastructure that light speed communications requires. And for all of this, neither of these two industry giants offers the best deal on TV, home phone, broadband combinations. That first place award goes to the Post Office and its Post Office Home Phone Service. As discovered in the award winning consumer assistance website Home Phone Choices, the best deal currently available in the UK for home phone and broadband in a package is from the Post Office. A complete comparison showing facts and figures can be found at Homephonechoices.co.uk. Bear in mind that this area is extremely competitive so you will want to avail yourself of the entire Home Phone Choices resource to do a price check and service comparison for your location.

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The best deals for cable TV service studied in depth

June 18th, 2009 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Press Releases

Many telecom providers around the UK are quietly trying to capitalise on the low cost of doing business over the internet by luring customers online with deals that are not available elsewhere. As found on consumer assistance website Digitalchoices.co.uk, British Telecom give its customers who sign up online a far superior pricing package for broadband that includes a free Wi-Fi router. Walk into a BT store and ask for this and you will be deemed quite mad. In fact every cable TV provider in the UK offers bargains for those who sign up online.

Eliminating one on one customer service saves them a great deal of money, making these internet deals possible. Digital Choices has taken their time to lay out all of the latest offers and promotions from Britain’s TV providers and has built onto their web site a Post Code activated TV price comparison tool. This allows one to instant view all the best and lowest prices for TV packages found in their location. Prices for digital TV packages can vary greatly in the UK dependent upon the degree of competition in your area.

Areas where Virgin Media TV have already installed new fibre optics cable can expect to receive many more digital TV channels at a substantially reduced price. You may be able to cut your bill for digital TV in half just by taking advantage of a great deal found at Digitalchoices.co.uk.

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DIGITALCHOICES.CO.UK ASKS ARE YOU READY FOR KICK OFF THIS SUMMER? – Digital TV

June 18th, 2009 by writer | No Comments | Filed in Press Releases

As the weather heats up so too does the summer schedule for sports fanatics – World Cup qualifiers, Lions Tour, Ashes Test Matches… the list is almost endless when it comes to the must see events of the summer sport season.

The choice of channels and providers can be daunting, not to mention the potential cost of catching every sports event on TV but, with the help of this guide, and by following our 5 top tips, it’s clear that there is something for level of sports fan and every size of budget.

Michael Phillips of comparison service DigitalChoices.co.uk says:

1. Something for nothing
“If you really don’t want to spend anything on your sports viewing then Freeview/Freesat is the only way to go. You can still tune in to Wimbledon, F1 and the FA Cup and Freesat customers with the right set top box can also enjoy high definition (HD). It’s simple to set up and it’s free – and it really doesn’t get cheaper than that.”

2. The minimum spend
“If you are an existing BT broadband customer or if you live in a Freeview area and you want a sample of live sports coverage for a minimum outlay then opting for BT Vision with free Setanta Sports 1* or Setanta Freeview is a sensible choice. Setanta Sports offers live Barclays Premiership games; 2010 away World Cup qualifiers; and some serious live golf coverage with the PGA.”

3. Middle of the road
“For the sports fan that wants something more but who doesn’t wants to spend over £40 per month for their sporting fix, then subscribing to Sky Sports through Virgin Media is a good solution. Sky Sports covers over 60% of live Premier League matches as well as The Ashes, the US Open golf and the Lions Tour.”

4. In at the deep end
“Virgin Media’s TV Size: XL with Sky Sports Collection and free Setanta Sports offers unbeatable value, ensuring you never miss a live sporting event on TV. This package will give you every live Barclays Premiership game and all the rugby, cricket, tennis and golf you could wish for. From motor sports fans to pugilists, everything is covered.”

5. High Definition spectaculars
“The latest must-have for sport on TV is High Definition (HD), providing a truly immersive, visually stunning experience. Sky’s Sky+ HD service brings all the content of Setanta and Sky Sports to your arm chair but in HD format.”

Michael continues:
“Consumers may be tightening their belts this year but that is no reason to miss out on the sporting fun this summer. The range of choice for the stay at home sports fan can be daunting at first glance but by asking yourself a few simple questions and using a reputable comparison service like DigitalChoices.co.uk you can quickly find something to match your sporting interests and budget.”

Top tips for choosing the right TV sports package:

1. Check the TV schedule – with sporting events now spread across various channels it’s worth doing some homework as to which sports, events and specific fixtures are featured on which channels before you sign up. Do your research and don’t assume that any one channel will have all that you need.

2. Check contract length – some channels and providers to sign up to a full 12 month contract for their sports channels. For example, Sky whilst customers have to commit to 12 months for the basic TV service they can then switch in and out of specific channel packs from month to month.

3. Consider bundling up – if you are thinking about signing up to a TV package from Virgin Media or Sky then you should consider taking your broadband and home phone services from them as well. Both providers offer significant discounts for customers bundling these three services together.

4. Don’t be afraid to haggle – if you already subscribe to a sports TV package and are reviewing your options, give your provider the opportunity to try and keep you as a customer. Special offers and competitive rates are usually only for new customers but existing customers can call up and ask for the same benefits – it’s possible your provider will bend on the issue in a bid to keep you from switching.

5. Compare your current package against our best buys below:

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Find the right option for you in cable or digital TV

June 15th, 2009 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Press Releases

Considering purchasing a package for TV and broadband? Perhaps you might even bundle this together with home phone service? As broadband becomes more integrated into our list of essential needs many people are discovering that they can actually receive digital TV for free when packaged with services like broadband. Or you may be of a generation for whom computers are better left to the area of science fiction and you prefer to watch terrestrial TV and as the analog signals die off one by one will concede only to buying a set-top box and now watching free Telly that is suddenly crystal clear.

This is fine either way and it is certainly everyone’s choice as to whether they wish to pay for a hundred channels or exclusively watch BBC1 on Freeview. The key to this is that it’s a choice and to make that decision wisely you may wish to visit Digitalchoices.co.uk. At Digital Choices you will find marvelous explanations of all the latest TV news. If you need to choose between Freeview and Topup TV you will be able to decide easily after reading up on the two at Digital Choices. Which cable TV provider has the most channels per pound in your city? At Digital Choices you can type your Post Code into a TV company comparison tool and find out straightaway who serves your street best.

Choosing the best TV provider depends on many factors such as how much you watch TV, whether your interest is primarily sports or drama or who has the lowest price for TV plus broadband. The best way to weigh all of these factors at once is to take a look at the reviews and comparisons furnished free at Digitalchoices.co.uk. You can compare the deals from various providers, including Virgin Media, BT TV and other top companies.

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Smart comparison of home phone and broadband service

June 12th, 2009 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Press Releases

Why would anyone want to go through the bother of changing home phone providers? Isn’t it true that most of the companies offering line rental and call plans are all priced within a pound of each other?

Yes, this is absolutely true. On the surface it would seem that switching home phone companies is not likely to save you much. But there are conditions under which you might not only save around £20.00 per month but may very well receive far superior services in the bargain. The key to saving money on your home phone is to bundle your service with other needed or desired communications comforts, like those would be both TV and Broadband service. So if we factor in Line Charges, Monthly Call Charges, Amount of Broadband speed we want and Number of TV channels we end up with countless options for better deals. And to be truthful they are a bit too much to calculate. With this difficulty acknowledged we turn to our friends at Consumer Choices website Homephonechoices.co.uk. At Home Phone Choices you can approach saving money on all of these services from two directions.

The first is a simple Home Phone service calculator. Simply type in your Post Code and learn who has the lowest prices for Phone service to your home. Or you can browse the categories and pages of Homephonechoices.co.uk and compare the various components of service offered. Many people prefer Post Office Home Phone service for the simple reason that you can pay your bill in any Post Office location. Home Phone and Broadband are both included in one price of just over 20 pounds. At that price it is almost like getting free line rental. The key to all of this is to visit Home Phone Choices and see for yourself how easy it is to nearly cut your Home Phone bill in half.

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