BT Sport - available from Nov 5th

[Oldjim]

I just received this notification http://community.plus.net/blog/2013/10/25/bt-sport-comes-to-plusnet/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_mediu...
Personally it has no interest for me but I am sure some of you will want it

[AndyH]

It's free to watch this weekend 25-27 Oct on the Sky platform (and probably FreeSat too if you manually add it) if anyone is interested in seeing what it is like.
The free hours are:
Friday – 6pm – 4am
Saturday – 11.30am – 4am
Sunday – 11.30am – 6am

[NorthEasterner]

How do you manually add BT sport to freest?

[Strat]

I don't believe you can.
On my Humax Foxsat-HDR I can switch to 'non-freesat mode' and scan all available channels from the satellite my dish is aimed at but in 'Freesat mode' I am restricted to the Freesat channels.
http://www.lyngsat.com/Eutelsat-28A-and-Astra-1N-2A-2F.html

[MisterW]

Correct , you need a Sky Viewing card.

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As we’ve covered already you’ll need a Sky digital Satellite receiver, apart from this all you’ll need is your Sky viewing card number.

[Strat]

£25 from Sky.

[hg144]

Anybody know how to volunteer for the Youview Trial

[pjmarsh]

hg144, that was the bit that interested me as well!
Phil

[Oldjim]

There will be a separate announcement about that in due course - until then you can't

[jelv]

The YouView part of this announcement is only part that is remotely interesting to me. Do we have any idea what the likely costs will be?

[PowerLee]

I can already get BT Sport free as part of my Virgin tv package, a lot of people are going to be disappointed after all the hype made about BT Sport  :-X
Shame it's also locked down to customers with a Sky viewing card, be more of an announcement if smart TV's & pvr's could get connected to BT Sport via Plusnet.

[w23]

Quote from: jelv

The YouView part of this announcement is only part that is remotely interesting to me.

Two different things all together really.  I've no particular interest in sport so I would have missed the tiny mention of You View in the BT Sport announcement.

[jelv]

Given they are two totally different things I'm surprised we've been told we must discuss them in the same topic - but there you go!

[Oldjim]

It just keeps things tidy
What does surprise me is the apparent lack of interest/comment on the BT Sport bit and I have to admit I have no idea what You View is  :-[

[jelv]

Quote from: Oldjim

I have to admit I have no idea what You View is  :-[

Well that explains why you thought it appropriate to restrict us to one topic! I suggest you go to http://www.youview.com/ and find out what it's about!
The range of content on BT Sport looks pretty pathetic and you can only get it from Plusnet if you have a Sky receiver. Well sorry, if you have to have Sky doesn't that somewhat negate the point of BT Sport? That's what make that announcement a non-event.
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Quote from: Oldjim

It just keeps things tidy

Normally, when people go off topic and start discussing something totally different you split topics - so the more I think about this the more perverse it seems!