{"id":42798,"date":"2025-08-14T08:23:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T07:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=42798"},"modified":"2025-08-18T13:33:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T12:33:35","slug":"ee-and-bt-uk-scrap-discovery-and-tnt-sports-content-from-old-tv-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/08\/ee-and-bt-uk-scrap-discovery-and-tnt-sports-content-from-old-tv-boxes.html","title":{"rendered":"Discovery+ App Access to be Removed from Some Older EE and BT UK TV Boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Customers of broadband ISPs EE<\/a> and BT<\/a> who also take their Pay TV (IPTV) service, specifically those that continue to use older TV boxes, have been informed that their devices will lose support for the Discovery+ streaming app entirely from 22nd September 2025. This also impacts TNT Sports on-demand content (i.e. catch-up content, extended coverage etc.).<\/p>\n

Subscribers to the Pay TV service that have one of the service’s more modern boxes (i.e. TV Box Pro, TV Box Mini, and the custom Apple TV 4K Box) are NOT impacted by this change, but everybody with older kit is. Just to be clear, this doesn’t impact your Discovery+ or TNT Sports subscriptions (access to the linear TV channels is unaffected), only the device support for the Discovery+ app, which also carries TNT Sport’s on-demand content.<\/p>\n

According to Cord Busters<\/a>, customers can resolve this by requesting a “free<\/em>” box upgrade from EE<\/a>, although the catch is that you’ll usually then be expected to re-contract to the service for another 24-month term and this will also result in the loss of your existing TV recordings. Alternatively, customers could simply use another device to access the Discovery+ App.<\/p>\n

Further details on the change, which is being led by Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), can be found on this BT help page<\/a>. The boxes affected are as follows – the BT<\/a>\/EE<\/a> Humax variant of the:<\/p>\n