YouView not ready enough?

[StewM]

Some details of why two systems running side by side here

[masona2]

And finally official confirmation Multicast will be fiber-only.

Good spot Stew. Have a star.

[StewM]

You are too kind.

[LesC]

I guess that confirms what we all suspected. I'm in the fortunate position to have Infinity 2 so guess sometime next year will be able to switch to a Youview box once the Sky Sports channels are available.

So does that mean that customers who currently have Sky Sports channels but don't have/can't get Infinity will lose out eventually as Vision boxes will be phased out??

[masona2]

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@LesC wrote:

I guess that confirms what we all suspected. I'm in the fortunate position to have Infinity 2 so guess sometime next year will be able to switch to a Youview box once the Sky Sports channels are available.

So does that mean that customers who currently have Sky Sports channels but don't have/can't get Infinity will lose out eventually as Vision boxes will be phased out??

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It looks that way Les. But as yet no one knows for sure until theres an announcement. And I don't expect one of those this side of Xmas. 

[zulu17]

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@LesC wrote:

I guess that confirms what we all suspected. I'm in the fortunate position to have Infinity 2 so guess sometime next year will be able to switch to a Youview box once the Sky Sports channels are available.

So does that mean that customers who currently have Sky Sports channels but don't have/can't get Infinity will lose out eventually as Vision boxes will be phased out??

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Perhaps the question you should ask first is it BT intention to offer Sky Sports as part of the Vison player package on Youview - will be interesting if they do will there be a price war between BT (Youview) Player and Now TV who at launch indicated that Sky Sports content would be available before the end of the year.

[masona2]

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@zulu17 wrote:

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@LesC wrote:

I guess that confirms what we all suspected. I'm in the fortunate position to have Infinity 2 so guess sometime next year will be able to switch to a Youview box once the Sky Sports channels are available.

So does that mean that customers who currently have Sky Sports channels but don't have/can't get Infinity will lose out eventually as Vision boxes will be phased out??

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Perhaps the question you should ask first is it BT intention to offer Sky Sports as part of the Vison player package on Youview - will be interesting if they do will there be a price war between BT (Youview) Player and Now TV who at launch indicated that Sky Sports content would be available before the end of the year.

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Zulu, thats actually not even up for debate. BT Vision (boxes) will eventually be phased out next year. Then its YouView all the way for BT. 

[jam2000]

if that is the case then bt can expect very few customers. what a shambles. yet another provider can offer them over dsl.

[jam2000]

well i will leave bt then and find my services elsewhere. which i am sure many others will do too.

[paul_c]

Having read the article they won't be discontinuing the current BTVision box until the middle of next year (assuming deadlines don't slip which of course never happens with BT ) Then they'll only be for new customers, no mention of existing cutomers having their boxes replaced so I reckon it while be a while yet before the current boxes become obselete but then of course I could be wrong