LoveFilm, Netflix......................................
Unsurprisingly the "Lovefilm and Netflix?" thread continues to attract support. But I'm puzzled that no-one mentions the other providers.
The current Samsung smart TV range of apps includes LoveFilm, Netflix, Wuaki.tv, PictureBox, blinkbox, KnowHow Movies and Curzon Home Cinema.
TalkTalk subscribers can access PictureBox and TalkTalk Box Office (which is actually LoveFilm Box Office rebranded).
BT subscribers have BT Film.
All YouView users have NOW TV and Sky Store.
The off-forum grapevine last year suggested that YouView were confident about adding two new providers, one before Christmas and the other just after. The first part of that prediction was Sky Store but there's still no sign of the second.
It's hard to understand why the other providers have not joined YouView. I would have thought that in particular blinkbox and Wuaki would have been keen to expand their markets.
Would any conspiracy theorists care to comment?
The current Samsung smart TV range of apps includes LoveFilm, Netflix, Wuaki.tv, PictureBox, blinkbox, KnowHow Movies and Curzon Home Cinema.
TalkTalk subscribers can access PictureBox and TalkTalk Box Office (which is actually LoveFilm Box Office rebranded).
BT subscribers have BT Film.
All YouView users have NOW TV and Sky Store.
The off-forum grapevine last year suggested that YouView were confident about adding two new providers, one before Christmas and the other just after. The first part of that prediction was Sky Store but there's still no sign of the second.
It's hard to understand why the other providers have not joined YouView. I would have thought that in particular blinkbox and Wuaki would have been keen to expand their markets.
Would any conspiracy theorists care to comment?
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So far as our YV box is concerned, I seem to be the only user who is happy with it. It replaced a deceased Sony HDR, and was free from BT. I only expected it to record and offer the main 4 catch-up players, and it delivers those functions fine. Anything more is a plus :-)
Quite so. I own lots of products I am very happy with, but I rarely frequent their forums, except when I have a difficulty I want to resolve. And when I do, and somebody tells me how to solve the issue, I go away happy, until the next difficulty arises, though I might stick around for a while if I know stuff about the product so I can give back for what I was given.
That's how I got started on here, though I do seem to have stuck around; partly because my YouView box kept giving me grief, and partly because people were always turning up with problems I could help with.
Such people sometimes arrive discontented, but more often just in a spirit of inquiry, and those we can indeed send away happy.
Which leaves, as you observe, those with issues that YouView utterly decline to comment on, or where the answers that we or YouView do give do not suit the person with the inquiry.
People do usually find the issue they want (look at the number of year-old threads that get disinterred by a new posting on that topic), but perhaps not all the information that is there.
I did have a cunning plan for a rolling FAQ a la Keith's excellent summary postings, which might have helped here, but this new forum software, which inhibits editing very quickly, has put the kybosh on that :-(
However, I am finding myself at an increasing disadvantage these days. Since my YouView box is working almost impeccably, I'm not tangled up in BT or TalkTalk issues, I like my 4:3 in 16:9 with black bars, and I'm not waiting for value-added services like NetFlix, which I can get on about three other devices I own, I have very little either to be discontented about, or that I can help with any more.
I am, though, disappointed that YouView doesn't seem to have fulfilled its promise, even if it hasn't actually broken any of its promises; so I'm sticking around to see whether or not it really can make the late run into wonderland that Visionman is always hinting at.
Though I know what I think......
A comprehensive, informative online manual could do a lot to save users the trouble of having to come to the forum, one by one, looking for an answer. I agree the new forum software encourages new users to look for previously posted answers, and of course there's no way of knowing how many do find their answer and leave without posting. But the box has been out for a while now, and shouldn't (it seems to me) be still attracting so many FAQs.
Fix the bugs - explain the unexpected "features" and why they're not going to change - and generally offer better support - that's what I'd like to see from YouView.
Though I admit, my opinion isn't particularly relevant as I've now plumped for a Panasonic rather than another YouView. :-)
Or perhaps a girl. Apologies for the sexist assumption.
For which, thanks for the trigger :-)
It uses DivX technology - would this be a problem for YouView?
http://tinyurl.com/ow43w85
This is in Spain.
(just thought I'd mention it)
Is this just playing the game or is there maybe something in it....
BT will have to branch out and offer more services than just sports on TV to attract television’s other key audience, avid Netflix fans. Would BT be prepared to tie up with the on-demand giant to boost its TV output?
‘If we didn’t keep some surprises back, what would you be writing about later in the year?’ says Patterson.
That sounds like BT’s chief conjurer has just a few more rabbits waiting in the hat.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/markets/article-2655476/CITY-INTERVIEW-BT-boss-Gavin-Patterson-call...