BT Vision questions

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Who has this - what is good and bad about it?

If they show programmes from a particular channel (eg Nick Jnr), does that mean that they show all programmes from that channel?

Do they have Living TV programmes (America's Next Top Model)?

c'mon ladies, I know that there are some BT Vision users on MN.

I tried to get it but can't as our area has too slow broadband. Am going to go for FreeSAt instead.

We went from Sky to bt vision as we couldn't afford sky. I prefer it personally. They only have cbeebies, citv and cbbc as childrens channels. But they have a lot of stuff on demand - with more and more added all the time. We pay £18 per month and get the full package.

jrsqueak - the bt site says they have shows from nick jr and others here. Are you saying that this isn't true?

What about living tv - this could be a clincher!

No that is true if you pay for the on demand packages. On live tv so to speak you can only get the freeview tv channels that I put above. They don't show all the programmes from nick jr etc - it is what they choose to put in their on demand library but I have a 8yo, 4yo and 2 yo and are never stuck for things to watch. They don't have living tv as a channel but have recently put some living stuff on demand.
We find it much better to be able to select the program we want to watch, when we want to watch it, the box is a duel freeview recorder too so you can record anything off freeview.
We went for the Gold package which is basically nearly everything free.
There isn't a dedicated movie package as such, there are tons of movies but they are PPV, that being said, if you do rent a movie you get it for 24 hours. There is a picturebox subscription you get as part of a package, I think it works out at about a fiver a months and every friday they take 7 films off and load 7 on that stay for 4 weeks, essentially a film is available for 4 weeks at a time. The films aren't all new, there are some newer ones on there but we use that and as long as we watch a film a week we are happy.

The sports package is quite good, you get so many football games loaded on later in the night after games, also for a one off ten quid fee you get a free subscription to setanta, which even though it is a bit of a watered down setanta keeps the boys happy with the live football.

Hope this helps, let us know if you need more info.

Thanks jrs. I don't think that we'll switch at the moment. Dd (3) loves Super Why and Backyardigans as well as Dora and Peppa Pig, and we watch a fair bit of Living, so wouldn't want to lose any of those. We don't watch much sport, so not bothered about that at all.

Just checked for you CSWS Backyardigans is on every morning at 8.30 on TMF so could be recorded and Dora series is on Demand and Peppa pig is on every day too so could be recorded. Will check what stuff is on off living after school run.
When we swapped over from sky we went from sky+ to basic freeview at the beginning as a necessity and ds1 loved diego and dora so we just used to record the couple of episodes that were on TMF and he watched them and tbh he found other things to watch but like I say at the time financially we didn't have much choice but as finances got better we subscribed to the packages and we never have any complaints.
Sidetracking from this topic. You commented on one of my threads a couple of weeks back but when I went to reply the thread had gone. DS3 who wass born in October has a milk allergy the hv/gp think - you suggested me cutting out dairy in my diet - he doesn't seem that bad after most feeds but I only have milk on cereal and coffee occassionally. have tried not to eat a lot of cheese or yoghurts etc but last night he scratched and screamed at his face and kept pulling away from breast. Any help most appreciated.

Your thread is here jrs . I only used to have milk on cereal, but that was enough to make dd miserable around the clock, and ds (same age as yours) reacted to a tiny amount of milk in the coating of some nuts that I ate at Christmas. I really do advise going totally milk free for 2-3 weeks to establish whether this is the problem or not. That means checking the labels of everything that you plan to eat, and avoiding all forms of dairy (whey, casein, lactose etc, as well as yoghurt, cheese, butter). If it doesn't make any difference after 3 weeks (and don't give formula during this time either) then you can re-introduce, but if it is then you can make the decision as to whether to remain dairy free and bf (obv the best thing for a sensitive child) or to ask for a prescription for hypoallergenic formula.