I'm a bit baffled at the moment. We've been with virgin for years and years so I've never really thought too hard about it. I'm not particularly technically savvy, so mostly I don't know what I'm talking about.
I am in a grand muddle. The basic question is, broadband, or broadband + TV.
The more sprawling one is below:
We are moving to a new home in the next week. Starting fresh. With BT.
We have our old Sony Bravia TV, which is a basic model, and which will go in the kitchen. We are becoming a 2 TV family :)
We have just bought a new smart TV (Sony Bravia 40'' KDL-40V4000 HD Ready LCD TV) which I haven't had time to even inspect yet. It has freeview built in, I know that.
I'm having an Ariel fitted as apparently we need that to watch freeview.
We have various 'external' sources of viewing ( now tv, netflix and amazon prime) as well as the freeview, so I was originally just going to just get fibre broadband.
However I don't think I can 'record' anything with the smart tv. So I wondered should I get Broadband + TV (YouView+ box) which would be attached to the old TV in the kitchen.
To add to the mix, we were going to get CCTV - which needs a DVR.
Is a BT YouView+ Smart 500GB Freeview HD Digital TV Recorder the same as a DVR or is that a completely separate entity?
Would it be wiser to just get just broadband from BT, and get something like the youview+ box separately? (ts £5 extra a month for them to provide it, but obviously that's ongoing)
Like I said, I don't know what to do.