They say the channels are good and worth watching, but with the basic package (now £16.pm inclusing phone line) YOU GET 35 channels, mostly crap with a few worth watching. The only really good one is sky one.
But, a friend of mine, instead of cable tv has freeview with top up tv. (
www.topuptv.com)
Top up tv is where you pay £7.99 p.m and get another 10 channels, + the normal freeview ones. these extra channels are-
UK Gold TCM (Movies) , UK Style Discovery Channel ,
Discovery Real Time ,
UK Food, Cartoon Network ,(Kids) ,
Boomerang (Kids) ,
Bloomberg (Financial) ,
British Eurosport.
This means in total you get about 80 channels including DAB and the rubbish (shopping) channels.
If you were to only count the channels worth watching, you get about 40 really good channels-more than the telewest 35.
Plus there is no contract. You just get a viewing card and slot into a compatible freeviewe box, and as long as you have good digital reception in your area, it works fine.
Of course, you could just have freeview which is also pretty good.
So overall, unless you want to pay for a more expensive telewest tv package (supreme) which is good value, then get freeview and top up tv as its better value than the basic package.