Kingston Interactive Television KIT

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.

My sister got it all for free ,since my father works for them ,and we all hate it very slow to many wires ,modem box to big/always flashing light on the modem ,i suspose it ok for the free channels ,get sky or freeview instead more better

This Interactive Television service started a little flakily, however it just gets better and better every day. I'm constantly surprised by the new services they keep quiet adding.

I really like this service from the Kingston Interactive Television Kit and Pace DSL4000 box. The best point is not having to return movies when it's raining :) I can also watch things when I want, much of the content is on demand. The EPG is excellent compared to any other I've ever seen. The BBC interactive feature is vastly superior to terrestrial digital tv.

This is one of the first areas to have ADSL service installed- this is TV, internet etc. down the telephone line.

First- the box takes a lot of time to start up, and if you ever turn it off with the remote, you can't turn it back on without resetting it. Menus appear very slowly considering the bandwidth available.

I can only really compare the TV service with conventional terrestrial TV.

TV picture quality is absolutely abysmal- blurred, flickering and washed-out colours, compression artefacts such as pixellation. Widescreen signalling is not properly implemented- BBC programs broadcast in widescreen do not look right. Sound is a lot worse compared to terrestrial analog. The whole TV service smacks of using a very poor quality set-top box. It seems to hang/crash from time to time. I often turn over to the channel to find a black screen. The box is so flimsy, it feels like it it is made of paper. They have been promising Video on demand for months now, it still hasn't turned up.

It's good to see smaller, innovative companies like KIT/Kingston Communications trying to push things on, but they are badly letting themselves down with a poor product. I would happily drop-kick the box into the River Humber. When I get to the end of the contract, I will definitely ditch this.