Silly(?) question

Having a discussion with the wife. I don't think they do but do BT
supply a television service? I know they do ADSL and telephony
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soup wrote:
Having a discussion with the wife. I don't think they do but do BT
supply a television service? I know they do ADSL and telephony

Not a silly question at all - Google for BTvision.

The actual launch date is anyone's guess.

Cheers,
David.

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soup wrote:
Having a discussion with the wife. I don't think they do but do BT
supply a television service? I know they do ADSL and telephony

Not a silly question at all - Google for BTvision.

And all based on Microsoft's MSTV technology. Boy, are the MS-haters going
to rant about that!

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Having a discussion with the wife. I don't think they do but do BT
supply a television service? I know they do ADSL and telephony
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And historically before the Communications Act 2003, there was some law
prohibiting BT, formerly the GPO incumbent from entering the local loop
broadcast market.

It's ancient history now, but that's why they hadn't in the past.

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Having a discussion with the wife. I don't think they do but do BT
supply a television service? I know they do ADSL and telephony
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And historically before the Communications Act 2003, there was some law
prohibiting BT, formerly the GPO incumbent from entering the local loop
broadcast market.

It's ancient history now, but that's why they hadn't in the past.



As I recall, it wasn't a law as such, rather OFTEL said they couldn't do it
because they had the competitive advantage (i.e. all their cables already in
the street) over the new cable companies, who still had the massive
challenge of laying their cables before the could provide any sort of
service at all. It was OFTEL's way of driving down the market to the lowest
common denominator, in the belief that cheap would be good. We now know, of
course, that cheap is far from good and as a result service standards have
dropped for everybody. Well done OFTEL.

Chas

Not a silly question at all - Google for BTvision.

But be aware that it isn't a "normal" broadcast service with the same
channel choice as satellite and terrestrial.

Thack

soup wrote:
Having a discussion with the wife. I don't think they do but do BT
supply a television service? I know they do ADSL and telephony

Thanks all, somehow I don't think this BTvision was what she had in mind
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When I left BT in 1998 they were experimenting with Video on Demand over
DSL which was to offer a choice of films & other entertainment. They had
a small scale pilot running at Martlesham village but were having big
problems with the server farm, even for a fairly small scale trial &
were also, at that time, grappling with making the menus & navigation
system auto update when they updated the content. The idea was that it
was not "broadcasting" because punters took what they wanted when they
wanted it.

It seemed to me that it would be very difficult to scale this up for
large take-up & it would require server farms in nearly every exchange &
massive bandwidth to make it all work.


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soup wrote:
Having a discussion with the wife. I don't think they do but do BT
supply a television service? I know they do ADSL and telephony

Thanks all, somehow I don't think this BTvision was what she had in mind
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Keith Bailey wrote:
When I left BT in 1998 they were experimenting with Video on Demand over
DSL which was to offer a choice of films & other entertainment. They had
a small scale pilot running at Martlesham village but were having big
problems with the server farm, even for a fairly small scale trial &
were also, at that time, grappling with making the menus & navigation
system auto update when they updated the content. The idea was that it
was not "broadcasting" because punters took what they wanted when they
wanted it.

It seemed to me that it would be very difficult to scale this up for
large take-up & it would require server farms in nearly every exchange &
massive bandwidth to make it all work.

VoD has been deployed commercially in London for about five years...

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

I remember the results from the Martlesham Heath trial - BT were
surprised that significant numbers of people were quite happy to _pay_
to watch Eastenders a day early! Mind you, it was probably slightly
more worth watching back then, and I think it was only "virtual" cash
in the trial.

Cheers,
David.