Recording (Downloading) on-demand/catchup content.
This would be a killer feature to allow on-demand/catchup content to be downloaded to the Youview box as though it was being recorded from the live broadcast DTT EPG.
This would help people with slower connections (and open up Youview to people with less than 3Mbps speeds) and also be a useful feature so you could set programs downloading to watch later. It would also help save peoples precious usage limits to allow on-demand to be watched more than once for one broadband usage of the download (rather than multiple times if you watched it via on-demand as it is).
The recordings could be date stamped and conform with broadcasters viewing rights with them timing out to be deleted when they are removed from the applicable broadcasters catchup page, much like the download function of the PC version of the BBC iPlayer.
I know this might not be easy to implement at a technical level (or even possible) as well as respecting Digital Rights Management as mentioned above but would be a very usefull feature I believe.
This would help people with slower connections (and open up Youview to people with less than 3Mbps speeds) and also be a useful feature so you could set programs downloading to watch later. It would also help save peoples precious usage limits to allow on-demand to be watched more than once for one broadband usage of the download (rather than multiple times if you watched it via on-demand as it is).
The recordings could be date stamped and conform with broadcasters viewing rights with them timing out to be deleted when they are removed from the applicable broadcasters catchup page, much like the download function of the PC version of the BBC iPlayer.
I know this might not be easy to implement at a technical level (or even possible) as well as respecting Digital Rights Management as mentioned above but would be a very usefull feature I believe.
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As someone on fast broadband it wouldn't do much for me but I know many people who are on <5mb and would prefer to download overnight rather than stream.
Having one buffer underrun during a film really upsets the experience.
If Sky kit can do it, it should very definitely be on the YV's list of things to do.
Taliska
I'm looking forward to when they will allow you to watch the programme coming up before it has been broadcast. You could make a killing on the horses. :-)
Another important reason is that people that have slow ADSL can't watch catch-up as it can't push the bits quickly enough down the pipe to keep the video flowing nicely. Allowing recording of catch-up would help these somewhat disadvantaged people to take advantage of the YV box. More sales for YV and more happier rural dwellers - those exact people who are more likely to have problems receiving the FreeView channels properly.
Hope that explains.
Taliska
Youview must catch up here!
Generally I find it perfectly usable, despite being under the minimum. BBC iplayer does drop out though at peak times. Oddly though, NowTV never drops out.
If your referring to recording on demand content, this is something that YouView cannot implement without the approval of the content providers and broadcasters.
As for Apple TV, it's a tiny, niche service and is set to remain so. Support, or lac thereof, for AirPlay will have precisely no measurable impact on C4.
YouView costs a lot less than an Apple TV & IPad combo, £240 retail for YV versus £99 for the Apple TV and at least £269 for an iPad mini.
And YV make it very clear a min 3mbps speed is necessary, that's no different from needing an HD TV to view HD content, everything has a minimum spec.