For £5 per month, the BT Vision service will now offer PictureBox from Universal, which offers a choice of 28 films per month. BT Vision already offers a range of monthly subscription packages, and this new one should go live on 5th May. The PictureBox service is already available on TopUp Anytime (Freeview based) and Tiscali TV (cable based). BT promise the films will not have already aired on Free to Air TV channels, although they may have already featured on other premium services.

BT Vision uses a Freeview PVR box, but to get BT Vision you must already have a BT Home Hub (ie be a BT Broadband customer). However, the self-install version of the service includes 2 Powerline adaptors allowing you to use the power cables to connect the PVR with the Home Hub if they are in different rooms or different locations. A nice touch there, with someone thinking through the average UK house design…

En-Twyn, a London based company showed off this combined power socket / dual network socket at CeBIT. The network ports use the Powerline technology, so the only connections on the back of the socket are the standard power connectors. For those using Powerline networks, this looks very interesting – it saves wasting a power socket just for the network, and looks a lot neater. En-Twyn have said the network and power sockets can both be used at the same time. Right now, this is just a prototype, but one we hope gets put into production this year.

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