I see that there are several BT Vision + set top boxes for sale locally with built in freeview and a 500GB hard drive.
Do these boxes need any codes from BT to run ?
If not one might be worth £15 to use with my bedroom TV.
The ones I was looking at are the black ones, are the silver ones an earlier model ?
EDIT
Will the PVR work without the ethernet cable connected ? (ie just as a recorder/playback for freeview programmes)
BT Vision
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#2 Re: BT Vision
Try Google, apparently it's not free so I expect involves a licence and a monthly subscription.pre65 wrote:Do these boxes need any codes from BT to run ?
http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/p ... v/packages
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It seems they are next to useless unless you have a proper package from BT.Mike H wrote:Try Google, apparently it's not free so I expect involves a licence and a monthly subscription.pre65 wrote:Do these boxes need any codes from BT to run ?
http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/p ... v/packages
No wonder they are selling for so little.
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I would leave them alone Philip unless you can get one for next to nothing
I had one with a 320G hard drive when I stopped using it I removed the drive and managed to reformat it to NTFS but lost 100mb
However, I think BT now lock the drive as sky now do as I cant reformat the sky one
I had one with a 320G hard drive when I stopped using it I removed the drive and managed to reformat it to NTFS but lost 100mb
However, I think BT now lock the drive as sky now do as I cant reformat the sky one