When will EE bring TTTV to their TV Platform?

[RKernohan]

My Mother has recently moved her TV , Broadband and Telecom services to EE. The system was installed yesterday and last night she went looking for her favourite Free to Air TV channel, TPTV (Talking Pictures TV). This popular TV channel specializes in broadcasting popular films and TV shows from the 1950’s 60’s, 70’s and a few from the 80’s. The content is extremely popular amongst those in their late 50’s and upwards and provides a great way for some people to reminisce on older times with some great TV shows from yesteryear. 

I contacted TPTV for their advice, they mentioned that they would welcome EE to start broadcasting their TV channel anytime .

How do we encourage EE to start broadcasting Taking Pictures TV? 

Rodney Kernohan 

[th2024]

Sadly not many new tv channels have been added and any plans on future developments are rarely announced until confirmed. 

Down to EE to negotiate I’m afraid. 

[Phil9000 · Accepted solution]

Consumers have been mentioned this pretty much since EE launched the “Freeview over broadband” option to receive free to air channels. Over the last 18 months or so of this been mentioned little seems to have happened.

[graybag]

Completely agree,Rodney

        I'm sure for many older Viewers (like myself)  the lack of Talking Pictures TV is the biggest drawback of EETV.

            I assume that you are aware that if you connect her Home TV Aerial to the EETV Box that Talking Pictures will appear in the TV Guide (and be Recordable)?

     Otherwise,if she can link her Internet to the TV she could go to the Talking Pictures Website and views lots of Content that way.

       Let's hope this becomes available soon.

     Graham

[stereohaven]

A nice half way house for internet only households would be making the TPTV Encore app available.

[XRaySpeX]

TPTV Encore doesn't catch-up current programmes but just shows a selection of classic old films & TV shows.

[Midnight_Voice]

@RKernohan @graybag 

Once a Box Pro has been set up in IP Mode, it requires a Factory Reset in Settings, before it can be set up in Aerial Mode. 

Just plugging an aerial in will not suffice.  

But plug the aerial in before doing the Factory Reset, so the box detects it on the restart.

[graybag]

@Midnight_Voice

       Yes,I've just had to do the opposite,which is to come out of TV Aerial Mode and revert to IP Mode only.Reason is that my Aerial has developed a "Glitch" and I'm only receiving a few Freeview TV Channels from it.This is also why I have currently lost Talking Pictures (except via the Webpage).It wasn't until I lost the Aerial Channels that I realised that ALL Freeview Channels come from the TV Aerial when connected and ONLY those populate the TV Channel Guide on my EETV Box Pro (whereas I had,naively perhaps,thought that the IP Freeview Channels would continue to be viewable,along with my BIG SPORT ones).

        Although I know this is now old-fashioned,I must say how much I miss not being able to Record 4 TV Channels simultaneously  and,of course,having to "sit through" a lot of Adverts.Besides that,it seems as if there is no point in actually "Recording" from TV Guide when all it does on some Channels is take you to,for instance,BBC IPlayer to view them - is there any advantage in doing this or could I just go straight to the App myself?

     Graham

[Midnight_Voice]

@graybag 

It sounds worth your while to get an aerial fitter in to unglitch your broadcast channels and restore the service you had before.

But yes, the channels below 300 are either IP or Aerial, with no mix’n’match allowed.

  It is just the BBC iPlayer that does the pretend recording trick; the only customer advantage I can see to it is that it does remind you of something that you meant to watch. And you might as well go along with the pretence at playback time, as it takes you there, and lets you delete the ‘recording’ when you have finished.

But other than that, no difference.