BT Vision to offer ITV catch-up service, box gets firmware update to help it cope
Subscribers to BT Vision’s basic Pay TV package will soon be able to view ITV’s on-demand service, alongside VOD programming from the BBC, C4 and others.
BT's V-box will allow instant access to popular ITV 1, 2, 3 and 4 shows up to 8 days following their transmission. A selection of archive shows will also be made available.
Marc Watson, director of content and business development at BT Consumer, proclaims the addition of the ITV catch-up service makes ‘BT Vision the best of any (VOD) platform in the UK.’
However, the BT PVR's On-demand service hasn't quite lived up to the hype. This week, the telecoms giant has released a major firmware update for the V-box in an effort to improve the performance of its On-Demand technology; the service has been plagued by ‘currently unavailable’ messages when programme selections are made by viewers.
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BT Firmware Upgrade Disaster
Anonymous - 21 November 2008 - 1:59amThe firmware 19th Nov 2008 upgrade has turned thousands of BT Vision boxes into bricks. Technically, they've messed up something called DHCP discover/offer, such that boxes can nolonger connect to BT. This is the *end* for BT Vision, 100,000's of boxes will need to be returned, or need to be binned!
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Anonymous - 21 November 2008 - 4:56pmTo the previous poster
Thousands of bricks and not one post on the BTVision forum about it, amazing!!
http://www.beta.bt.com/bta/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=7&start=0
Don't be such an idiot!
Anonymous - 22 November 2008 - 10:29amDon't be such an idiot! There isn't one single reported case of a BTVision box being bricked. Do you take pleasure in trolling?
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Anonymous - 25 November 2008 - 6:24pmThe software upgrade on the 19th wasn't a firmware upgrade to the STB it was a server upgrade. The boxes haven't been bricked.