Kingston Interactive Television KIT Review

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Hull Joe's Review of Kingston Interactive Television KIT

29th Jun 2004

Overall Rating

3.5 stars
  • Value for money
    2.5 stars
  • Customer Service
    1.5 stars
  • Time Service Used
    Less than a Week
  • Features
    5 stars
Good Points

KIT is 5 years ahead of any thing like it anywhere in the world. It is the only fully integrated broadband TV service using ADSL. The BBCi content is amazing and was awarde both BAFTA and Royal Television awards. Video-on-demand integrated with broadcast streamed video and internet browsing not to mention instantaneous on screen messaging and email. IP delivered Video quality is excellent when compared to WMP or Real. It has 4.5Mb/s for broadcast and 2Mb/s for VoD with instantaneous trick play control. It is a marvel of technological innovation and only now are the likes of BT and France Telecom launching similar services.


Bad Points

Content is poor - the exception is the BBCi stuff. TV channels are a miss mash of Sky and others and limited to a total of 50. The satellite option is better. I wish they would offer Freeview and dump Sky!!. VoD content is also poor although now managed by blockbuster and the web based content has not changed for about 36 months! It is totally out of date! Set-top box has also had its day with much better boxes available now. The ADSL modem is seperate and today a wireless router would be better connecting PC and TV at the same time.


General Comments

The underlying technology of the Kingston Interactive Television KIT is fantastic and I'm just waiting for someone with the imagination of the original pioneers (all gone now due to cost cutting!!!) to knock KIT back into shape.

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