Will plusnet consider offering BT Vision?
Quote from: PeterLoftus I vote for Plusnets model value for money and good phone and broadband services with UK based support services.
However I think there must be customers who want good quality UK based customer service and YouView and video on demand. The two things should not be mutually exclusive nor Plusnet more technologically primitive just because it is BT of Yorkshire
BT will have got a huge discount on the Humax YouView boxes due to the number they will have purchased, so I'm not necessarily asking that we get them free but at least at a price that benefits from that substantial kind of discount and Plusnet being part of the BT Group. After all Plusnet seems to have got a very big discount indeed from Technicolor for clearing their warehouse of several hundred thousand otherwise redundant 582n wireless broadband routers.
So what I'm saying is that Plusnet does not need to give out YouView boxes to all its broadband customers as a blanket thing but should combine providing them at a low cost with a decent range of IPTV video services for those customers who want such services, whilst still having a cheaper plain vanilla version of its broadband service for those who don't.
Quote from: Chris Not to my knowledge? If we did I completely missed us running a customer trial on any TV service. Unless you mean this, which wasn't anything to do with Plusnet.
Sorry my mistake. I had misread that as being a specific YouView trial for Plusnet customers by Plusnet whereas clearly it was just a general trial of YouView across all ISPs by YouView before it was launched commercially by BT and TalkTalk.
Its good news to hear that something is now finally happening at Plusnet on the IPTV front. Also point taken that the technology may not actually be being completely reinvented for IPTV delivery compared to BT's system (even though rather distressingly that is the case for Plusnet's email systems with not very happy results at all for the current stability of its webmail platform) but even if it is their system it no doubt has to be made available on your servers and also appropriately rebranded (including possibly different content). And I am sure that I may very well say that and that you could not possibly comment in your position as a member of staff in advance of any official product launch.
Chris - if you need any extra volunteers for any PVR type trial, put my name down.
I run a mixture of MythTV, XBMC and TVHeadend on Linux servers etc and have done for years so have a pretty good background in this kind of thing
I run a mixture of MythTV, XBMC and TVHeadend on Linux servers etc and have done for years so have a pretty good background in this kind of thing
Quote from: Chris We're in the early stages of TV trials with staff. We are excited about the opportunities this will extend to our customers in the near future but as yet, have no fixed timings for a public launch.
What about a customer trial (rather than a public launch)? A number of people have expressed interest in a trial in this thread. Are there any plans for this?
I'll quite happily join the list of those interested.
Thanks Chris for letting us know there are trials in progress with Plusnet staff regarding the possible release of a TV service. Come on guys given Chris some slack here as he can't give you any more details until he's authorised from the Plusnet Management and no doubt he will as soon as he's allowed. Until then help him out with suggestions on what you would like on the service so they can do some future planing to try and give the customer what they request unlike other providers.
Our household like Sport (premier league football/rugby and boxing),newly released films and on demand services all in one box anything else we can get from the Freeview/Freesat eg main stream TV and Children's channels. We would prefer fewer quality channels than thousands of rubbish channels like Sky or a rehash of Freeview like BT
Just before I go can I mention that if you need any help with trials I'm always available to help out just ask space can be made available under TV any-time
Our household like Sport (premier league football/rugby and boxing),newly released films and on demand services all in one box anything else we can get from the Freeview/Freesat eg main stream TV and Children's channels. We would prefer fewer quality channels than thousands of rubbish channels like Sky or a rehash of Freeview like BT
Just before I go can I mention that if you need any help with trials I'm always available to help out just ask space can be made available under TV any-time