Internet box with Connected TV: What are Bouygues and SFR offers are

Samsung televisions released on the market since 2019 are thus offering the deserved TV, thanks to simple applications to download. If you have a subscriber to SFR, Orange, Free or Bouygues Telecom, just download the TV application of your operator in the Samsung application store.

How to watch television by Internet without going through a TV box

With or without the help of its Internet access provider, several options exist so that you no longer clutters a TV box at your home.

Connected television offers many possibilities, including that of enjoying television channels without boxes. A practice which is spreading more and more, but which requires to meet some conditions.

If you have a recent Samsung TV, there is a good chance that you can do without a box to view your favorite channels. Indeed, by negotiating with SFR (subsidiary of Altice France, such as BFMTV), Samsung has just concluded its fourth partnership with a French Internet access provider to propose Depotéralized Television.

Via your operator

Samsung televisions released on the market since 2019 are thus offering the deserved TV, thanks to simple applications to download. If you have a subscriber to SFR, Orange, Free or Bouygues Telecom, just download the TV application of your operator in the Samsung application store.

Internet connection, by Wi-Fi or Ethernet cable, will be responsible for identifying your subscription to allow you to use the service. For the time being, Samsung is the only manufacturer to offer this option for the four operators.

Without going through an operator

Despite everything, other solutions exist to do without the TV decoder. Going through Google’s Chromecast, Apple TV housing, or the Amazon Fire TV Stick, for example. These devices, coupled with a smartphone or tablet, allow you to display their content on your TV, but also to have many additional applications.

Among them, we find Molotov or MyCanal, which can also be installed natively on many TV models. They allow access to live television content (or not), for a subscription. Molotov, however, offers a free offer, with 36 channels available. To access larger bouquets, you will have to pay 5.99 euros per month.

Internet box with Connected TV: What are Bouygues and SFR offers are ?

Box offers with Smart TV allow you to equip yourself with a connected TV at cost price. But the game is worth the candle ?

Yann Daoulas – Modified on 07/10/2023 at 3:28 p.m. Summary

1. After the packages with phones, the boxes with subsidized TV
2. Simplicity shock
3. Internet without Box TV: 100% Streaming with Bouygues
4. Connected TV with the SFR box: the decoder always of the game
5. Box with Smart TV: Is it interesting financially ?

Has the TV decoder lived ? You might think, with the new Internet offers launched by two operators. Their principle ? A connected TV or a video projector included in the subscription, at a very low price in cash: from 49 euros with the Bbox Smart TV offers from Bouygues Telecom, and from € 1 at SFR. The whole for a 24 -month commitment on its box subscription. A Rupture with the traditional model Internet boxes + TV decoder ? Yes at Bouygues Telecom, a little less at SFR, even if the two operators intend to simplify uses. But the consumer finds himself there ? Yes, and even rather twice than at Bouygues Telecom who makes Regularly promotions, as on the occasion of Black Friday.

After the packages with phones, the boxes with subsidized TV

These new internet offers with connected TV have been taking a model that has existed for years to buy a new smartphone. An appetizing price for the coveted terminal, which can descend up to 1 euro, but in return for a 24 -month commitment on a more expensive package. Music that consumers now know well. The operators are starting to play it in the universe of boxes, and the score is almost the same.

The Bbox Smart TV offer

Bouygues Telecom offers two new offers: the Bbox Must and the Bbox Ultym Smart TV, respectively at a price of € 41.99/month or € 50.99/month. As its name suggests, it is a Bbox must or ultym internet subscription, without TV decoder, but which allows you to buy a connected TV or a Samsung video projector at low cost.

Several models are offered. The Smart TV UHD 4K, the Smart TV Qled 4K, the Smart TV OLED, or the Samsung The Frame, in four screen dimensions: 108, 125, 138 and 163 cm, at the price, respectively of 49, 159, 229 or 199 euros (on promo) for the first model, 299, 349, 399 or 399 euros (on promo) for the second, 999 and 1499 for the third (on promo), and 499, 649, 799, 899 (on sale) For the fourth. It is also possible to have a video projector at the rate of 399 euros. Or several hundred euros in savings on cash regulations for these televisions, compared to their trade prices (from 449 to 1999 euros).

Good news for those who do not wish to pay a large sum of money at once: Bouygues Telecom allows its customers to adjust their new television in three times at no cost.

Small feature: BBOX Must Smart TV and Bbox Ultym Smart TV offers are reserved for customers eligible for Bouygues Telecom fiber.

The SFR box offer with Samsung or Hisense TV

The operator at the Red Carré offers a similar opportunity, but declined differently. It also allows you to buy a connected Samsung or HISENSE TV at a cash flow, from € 1 and up to € 499, in addition to the subscription to any SFR box offer, in fiber, ADSL or cable. Precision: the price of connected television evolves according to the box offer you choose. In addition, unlike Bouygues Telecom, SFR maintains Its TV decoder, which remains included with the subscription.

The formulas with SFR SFR Smart TV are accompanied by supplements: 10 euros per month more compared to its classic box offers. To which are added 8 euros per month for 24 months to spread the cost of purchase of the TV. We can also ignore this last monthly additional cost by choosing to adjust the entire television in cash. We detail this pricing in our guide dedicated to the SFR box offer with Smart TV Samsung.

SFR also offers a Samsung Freestyle video projector, € 199, with the same subscription conditions as for box offers with Smart TV.

Simplicity shock

We will then come back to the tariff aspect, but the novelty of these internet offers with connected TV deserves that we dwell on it. In particular that unveiled by Bouygues Telecom. The operator explains that he decided to “Cross a course” and of “Change completely model”. Because its new Bbox Smart TV offer is aimed at “make disappear” Purely and simply the TV decoder. How to watch television live or replay then ? Directly via application B.Operator TV+. The latter will be pre-installed on the Tizen operating system of the most recent Samsung televisions, with whom Bouygues Telecom has established a “Exclusive partnership”.

First objective of this commercial innovation: meeting consumer expectations, argues Benoît Torlotting, director of operations for consumer and Bouygues companies. And quote a recent study by the Idate Institute that they wish “More simplicity and fluidity in installation and use” of their TV box, as well as a reduced size. The operator responds by pushing logic to the end: outright elimination and simple decoder.

The key: space saving, and connections reduced to a minimum since there is only the internet modem to install, before connecting its connected TV via a cable or Wi-Fi. In terms of use too, the removal of the TV box promises to make life easier for the user, which only needs a remote control to access its programs. Welcome simplification at a time when many consumers are increasingly difficult to perceive the interest of the decoder of their operator, when they can go directly through their Smart TV.

Internet without Box TV: 100% Streaming with Bouygues

This solution has already been chosen by many consumers contenting themselves with an internet offer without Box TV, and a connected TV for their entertainment on large screens. In particular via the applications of the most popular streaming services pre-installed on smart TV: Netflix, YouTube, OCS, Mycanal, Disney+, BeIN Sports, RMC Sport. And possibly Molotov (or mycanal) for those who wish to continue to watch the live TV or replay. Besides, at the moment, Bouygues Telecom is offering Six months of subscription offered to Prime and Universal+ on the Bbox Must and six months of subscription offered to Prime, Disney+ and Universal+ with the Bbox Ultym.

And there are more of them than we think. Despite the explosion of SVOD uses, Netflix and others have not yet grown live TV, watched in almost 90% of households, recalls Bouygues on the faith of a mediammetry study. Reason why the operator will continue to provide theAccess to the TV service, but deported directly to the TV via a new Application B.TV+. This will be more extensive than the current B.TV for smartphones and mobiles, since it will give access to some 150 free channels, including fifteen in replay, and 83 paid. On the quality side, the service will be offered in HD and in definition 1080p to the maximum.

On the other hand, by abandoning the decoder, Bouygues Telecom also renounces control of its TV flows to devote the 100% OTT model. That is to say the Diffusion of contents fully streaming. This can cause disturbances in the event of a strong crowd when the program is broadcast in IPTV via the operator’s decoder allows it to guarantee the quality of service even in the event of a strong crowd. Phenomena that remain quite exceptional, but always frustrating for viewers.

Despite these – relative – disadvantages, the OTT on connected TV has a future – it was also one of the conclusions of a study published last year by the CSA . The quality of streaming service improves day by day and seems to validate the approach of Bouygues Telecom.

Connected TV with the SFR box: the decoder always of the game

Make a cross on the decoder: a radical choice that sfr did not wish to make. The Red Carré operator continues to offer his house TV reception equipment in addition to the connected TV included in his new offers. The bouquet of channels remains delivered by the TV box, not via a streaming application. We can regret it, compared to the bouygues telecom offer which goes to the end in the simplification of uses and the reduction of equipment and size.

Maintaining the decoder, however, allows SFR to keep control of its TV flows to guarantee the user experience. This also allows him to ensure 4K compatibility for programs disseminated in this standard. While, as we have seen, Bouygues Telecom remains at the moment at HD via the B application.TV+ installed on Samsung TV. Note that this distinction only applies to “classic” television channels: Netflix, Disney+ and other SVOD services are in all cases available in 4K on Samsung TV, via their dedicated application.

Another advantage of maintaining the TV decoder in SFR box offers with connected TV: this allows it to offer a recording service. Up to 300 hours of programs on a digital hard drive, that is to say dematerialized. An option offered when it usually costs 5 euros per month. The operator even doubles the bet by offering, on request, the multi-TV. Usually, billed 3 euros per month, this option allows you to watch your programs on another housing television thanks to a second decoder.

Box with Smart TV: Is it interesting financially ?

But for the consumer budget, their offers are worth the candle ? Let us first be interested in details of Bbox Smart TV offers. These are therefore displayed at 41.99 or 50.99 euros per month, with 24-month commitment:

If we opt for the 108 cm TV at 49 euros with the Bbox Must Smart TV offer, that makes a budget of 1.033 euros for two years of subscription. Let us compare the operation with the purchase of the same TV (recommended price: 449 euros) plus two years of Bbox Must subscription: the invoice then amounts to 1.240 euros. The Bbox Must Smart TV offer is much cheaper, with Over 200 € in savings, what is starting to do.

Now with regard to the SFR box offer with Smart TV Samsung, the calculation is a little more complex. It all depends on the internet subscription chosen, as illustrated below:

If we base ourselves on the premium fiber fiber offer with the Smart TV at 1 euro in cash, we will actually have to add to this unbeatable price the sum of 433 euros. That is to say 1 € for purchase, 192 euros that can be paid in 24 monthly payments of 8 euros or at once when subscribing to the offer, plus the 240 euros corresponding to the additional cost applied to Subscriptions proper. If we summarize:

• SFR Premium subscription + Purchase of TV only: 816 + 400: 1.216 euros over two years
• SFR Power Premium + Smart TV Samsung subscription included: 1200 + 193 = 1393 euros over two years

Compared to the recommended price of the TV (400 euros), this is equivalent to an additional cost of 177 euros if it is bought with a premium fiber box .

From a financial point of view, therefore, Box offers with Smart TV are financially interesting at Bouygues Telecom, less at SFR where they are more expensive and simply allow you to spread payment of its new TV or its video projector over 24 months.