NTL/Telewest is taking on BT and Sky by giving a free digital TV service to anyone taking its home phone service which starts from £11 per month.

Customers will get Sky One and high definition TV channels along with all of the channels available to Freeview. The deal will include the company's recently launched TV Drive. This is basically the same as the Sky personal video recorder (PVR) and holds up to 80 hours of TV as well as being able to burn programmes to DVD.

This will only be available to around 80 percent of customers in Telewest areas though, but NTL have said it hopes to get the PVR and TV on-demand services will be available to all its customers by the end of the year.