BT vision
get BT vision and receive a box that can pause and record live TV - for free.

You quickly realise that BT vision is basically Freeview.

and once you have left BT, the £200 recordable TV box now becomes useless, as it requires an activation signal from BT for it to work.

So i go to sell it on Ebay - and find they are going for pennies. The same spec box bought on the market goes for £250. So i found myself throwing it onto the tip along with its "advance wireless router" which also was unusable after I migrated away from them,

Waste of money in ever aspect.
(Dan dan dan They tik urh jerbs!!!, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 11:56, 4 replies)

No hacks?
I remember finding online, then doing a hardware hack on an old NTL box which prevented it calling home and reporting its location or whatever the fuck it was doing.
I used to watch free cable but lived in fear that somehow they'd catch me.
I shouldn't have worried of course, they were far too busy terrorising or failing their legit customers.
( Infidel , shit and wrong, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 13:13, closed)

what was the point? It was free view (for my box)
I did alot of looking around and found there wasnt a hack.

So i removed the hard drive, and binned the rest.

It looked brand spanking new.
(Dan dan dan They tik urh jerbs!!!, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 14:13, closed)

Oh yeah, free.
I'd forgotten about "free", that's a concept which terrifies North American business. It doesn't really happen here.
( Infidel , shit and wrong, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 15:02, closed)

When it first came out,
BTVision was a (very) cheap way of getting yourself a twin-tuner PVR (unless you were daft enough to have them install it for you - likewise, the homehub and the powerline adapters). That's why I got one, despite the dire warnings from the BT sales people that my broadband was too slow to support streaming (it was, but what the fuck did I care?).
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 28 Feb 2012, 20:01, closed)