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Originally Posted by mersey70
I must say it seems a mistake to launch a box that isn't fully functional but hopefully an upgrade will follow sooner rather than later. Not 'coming soon' as we often hear.
A pay VOD service is only as good as the content offered, you can have all the technology and fibre you like but you need something compelling to broadcast. They stuck with OD for years and finally realised it was linear HD that a lot of people also wanted, and to their credit they have come on leaps and bounds now.
Let's be clear though you don't need fibre for a decent OD service, I had BT Vision on a maximum 7mb ADSL2 line and it was faultless, ok no HD streaming but it was really good. I think the free YouView services are going to be huge and offer real competition in this financial climate so long as they can get the boxes sold at a resaonable price. Of course if you cannot get a decent line speed you are snookered, but a lot of people can.
I only really use catch up but maybe I am in the minority, however you don't see that many posts on here when OD is discussed about anything other than catch up though, do you?
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My daughter had BT vision ,but she was not impressed as there was so little content when she had it two years ago, she is now on VM. So again we comeback to content ,content,content, that is what the average customer wants.