13 Facts About BT Vision

The BT Vision service was, after August 2013, solely used to broadcast Sky Sports, as well as BT Sport for non-Infinity customers.

The ban was designed to protect the new smaller telecommunications companies and the small cable television networks in the United Kingdom as it was felt that BT had an unfair advantage because its pre-privatisation monopoly meant that its equipment was already installed in virtually every home and business in the country.

BT Vision was launched on 5 December 2006, competing with Sky, Virgin Media and TalkTalk Plus TV .

BT Vision was the second IPTV television platform in the UK, after Homechoice TV.

BT Vision have the right to offer on demand coverage of 125 matches each season from the Football League and League Cup.

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BT Vision made a deal with American sports TV company ESPN for carriage of its new channel which replaced Setanta on DTT.

BT Vision customers were able to watch many of the top shows, up to seven days after transmission on-demand and watch library programmes on-demand.

From late May 2008, BT Vision discontinued free access to BBC TV replay, instead requiring Vision users to take out a monthly subscription.

On 9 August 2013, the 18 extra linear channels from BT Vision were successfully added to the BT YouView EPG and ready for streaming.

BT Vision+ is a set-top box, similar to Sky+ and V+, that enables 100 hours of television programmes to be recorded while watching other live programmes.

Original silver BT Vision+ box is a Toshiba HDTV9719 running Saorview software for the IPTV signals.

BT Vision Filmclub was available for free with TV Unlimited, and is not available for TV Essential.

On 24 January 2014 BT ceased to sell BT Sport via DTT, and subsequently ceased provision of BT Sport 2 via DTT on 1 January 2015.