![]() ![]() We'd really like to see more 4K channels in BT's overall offering too, especially given the asking price. Speaking of HD, Netflix and Amazon Prime Video offer an increasing amount of content in 4K and HDR (high dynamic range), some even with Dolby Atmos sound (the BT TV box is capable of passing Atmos). Even expired content remains, but that can serve as a reminder to seek it from elsewhere, should you wish. Everything is arranged in big cards, so it's easy to see on a visual basis what's what. It's MyTV that has the most use: this is where you can easily find your recordings, just watched shows and scheduled recordings. The first two are self explanatory, the final two are automatically curated last-chance and popular watches from various sources, like a best-of reel. There's a Home button - the big blue one with a house on it on the remote - that brings up tabs for Guide, Apps, MyTV, BT Player, TV Shows, and Films. In terms of collating content, BT already does also do some of the heavy lifting for you. It's easy to adjust the list at any future point too. Whether that's discontinued ones - such as all the Disney channels - or just content that you know you'll never care for. While we originally though that YouView's layout wasn't customisable - the SD and HD double-ups of channels eat into a lot of space - a quick tap of the yellow button on the controller allows you to hide channels that you'll never want to see. But you can also skip backwards, by up to a week, and select programmes to jump into that you missed - the system just fires up the relevant app (some of which, such as All 4, lack HD quality still - which is a shame - so we'd advise recording for that added quality). It's easy to skip forward and set reminders and recordings, as we said. YouView, the underlying system of the BT TV box - although it's not printed front and centre like it once was - is a decent collator. The layout of all this content is well handled too. We'd like the box to include Wi-Fi as an option too. So if you don't have a multimedia panel to link your TV to your hub/router at a decent speed then you'll either need to trail cables around the house or get a decent powerline adapter - but the latter solution will almost certainly mean a dip in speed as a result. That's a lot of time, though, so long as you don't intend on series recording 15 shows in your first week that you'll never get around to watching. Anything in 4K uses up four times the equivalent space of HD. That 500GB is, realistically, 125 hours of HD recording. Whether anyone would ever need that is up for question, but family homes can become busy places, we suppose. Again, Sky has the upper hand here: it matches the same with its base Q box, but the 2TB Sky Q box can record up to six channels whilst you watch a seventh. You can record up to two shows at once whilst watching live TV, if you try and ask more of the box then it'll request you stop one of your recordings. However, the number of streams you can record at once is, of course, limited. No channel is off limits, so if you want to record a Sky Cinema title in HD then go for it - it'll just use up space on your box's 500GB (a little on the small side Sky Q is twice that at its most basic, at 1TB). So if you've got 4K or HD footie, you can record it as so. Perhaps best of all is that you can pick through the electronic programme guide and record whatever you want live, or in the future, in its native quality. BT TV 4K UHD box has built-in 500GB storage.Record any channel you wish in its native quality.TV Shows & Films collate trends and popular content.BT MyTV collates recordings and favourites into easy access.Those who don't have an active investment in sports, however, can go simpler in building their own alternatives: a Freeview signal, for free, paired with a Netflix subscription (circca £7.99pm), will get you plenty of high-end entertainment without the long-term subscription.īut if you want the full-fat ability to record all your shows, navigate through everything in an effective all-in-one programme guide, and access channels that are out of reach for even Netflix and Amazon, then BT TV is undoubtedly one of the premiere services in the UK. This, we think, is the real reason that many will commit - and once there you'll never want to leave. Sports is the key player, with access to all of Sky Sports HD and BT Sports HD available in the top BT VIP package, meaning you'll never miss any typical Premier League broadcast, F1 race, golf championship, or plenty more besides. It's more or less in line with Sky in that regard, except you avoid the need for a dish on the side of your house, but the BT box is smaller in capacity (500GB vs 1TB or 2TB), and the contract is also longer (24 vs 18 months).īut you do get access to a lot of great content. There's no getting around the fact that BT TV's ongoing cost isn't small.
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