What's happening with this function. I just got my box and it's the first thing I noticed different from my old system. A major step backwards in my view.
What's happening with this function. I just got my box and it's the first thing I noticed different from my old system. A major step backwards in my view.
. . . is anyone listening though?? . . I like the Pre-Ch or Back function because I can't abide Ads and switch to BBC News in the break.
What's happening with this function. I just got my box and it's the first thing I noticed different from my old system. A major step backwards in my view.
Just punch in the channel number? And citing avoidance of advertising as a reason for change is unlikely to endear your suggestion to the powers that be!
What's happening with this function. I just got my box and it's the first thing I noticed different from my old system. A major step backwards in my view.
In my experience low priority development issues rarely to never get addressed. It'll be way down their list to fix.
What's happening with this function. I just got my box and it's the first thing I noticed different from my old system. A major step backwards in my view.
Punching in the channel number isn't a solution! It's a workaround.
What's happening with this function. I just got my box and it's the first thing I noticed different from my old system. A major step backwards in my view.
It is indeed a workaround, as I had hoped my question mark would have intimated.
Hi. We agree that this would be useful and we have looked at implementing it, but to do it properly we need to integrate the feature with the MHEG red button system that is provided by device manufacturers like Humax, because broadcasters such as BBC expect to be able to use the back button at certain times when watching a TV channel. It's in our backlog and hopefully it won't take too long, but we can't give you a date right now.
For heavens sake customers have been asking for this for years! Pull your fingers out!
Hi. We agree that this would be useful and we have looked at implementing it, but to do it properly we need to integrate the feature with the MHEG red button system that is provided by device manufacturers like Humax, because broadcasters such as BBC expect to be able to use the back button at certain times when watching a TV channel. It's in our backlog and hopefully it won't take too long, but we can't give you a date right now.
Agreed it's a good idea. I have Humax & Huawei boxes , both remotes would benefit from this.
What's happening with this function. I just got my box and it's the first thing I noticed different from my old system. A major step backwards in my view.
you view? if you cannot after years of discussing the back channel function and getting nowhere, could I suggest you employe the services of a recruitment head Hunter as the people who have cracked this work for your competition!
my remote has 48 buttons on it all anyone is asking is that you choose one for this function and then let us all know.
Youview's unbelievable slow response to this issue doesn't really show itself as a cutting edge technology provider.
What's happening with this function. I just got my box and it's the first thing I noticed different from my old system. A major step backwards in my view.
Rev Rev (are you very religious, or just watching the F1 Grand Prix?) - why single out just this issue?
‘Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful’ Wm Morris
What's happening with this function. I just got my box and it's the first thing I noticed different from my old system. A major step backwards in my view.
Hi Roy, I singled this back button issue out because in this thread it appears to have been an issue youview have been made aware of three years ago and it is still yet to be remedied.
I found this thread whilst looking online for a back channel function shortcut for youview.
Rev rev, bikes more than cars but well done to Hamilton's for his win on a typical British summers day
What's happening with this function. I just got my box and it's the first thing I noticed different from my old system. A major step backwards in my view.
Ah, I see. You will find, alas, that this is just one of over a hundred issues that have been raised for enhancements; a number have been addressed, but by no means the majority of what is very largely a list of entirely sensible and reasonable requests.
People seem to be peeling off from YouView though, not because of the size of the list or the number of items, but on a single issue basis when there is something they just can't live with, like the lack of padding, or of stretchyvision.
Or as here, the lack of a back button? Though the problem, as YouView express it, is not so much of choosing a button, but of knowing where they have come from, so they can go back there; unlike a web page, a YouView box is not stateless, and unlike a TV, it has a whole plethora of places it could have come from, rather than just an earlier-watched channel :-(
Nevertheless, it is devoutly to be hoped that providers of FreeView Play boxes are even now working steadily through Keith's list(s), giving themselves point after point of advantage over YouView :-)
‘Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful’ Wm Morris
What's happening with this function. I just got my box and it's the first thing I noticed different from my old system. A major step backwards in my view.
Roy, I agree that the lack of a "Back" button to previous channel is very useful and available on many other systems. You say "it has a whole plethora of places it could have come from, rather than just an earlier-watched channel", and yes this is so that the Back button has many uses in YouView; but as it is, the "Back" button is IGNORED in the context when a previous channel is normally desirable - that is when you are watching a channel and not in any YouView method where "Back" has another valid use. So as a professional programmer myself, I know that the implementation should be quite simple in this case where the "Back" button has nothing else to do, other than select the previous channel. I hope that YouView will respond to this and other issues because in my opinion it has more going for it than against.
What's happening with this function. I just got my box and it's the first thing I noticed different from my old system. A major step backwards in my view.
Quite; but as a professional programmer myself, I have learned not to have high expectations of the code written by other, and even not to try to extrapolate myself into the middle of even good stuff.
Though there is no truth in the rumours that the space probe currently about to do a flyby of Pluto was actually a Mir replenishment mission programmed at YouView Towers :-)
‘Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful’ Wm Morris
What's happening with this function. I just got my box and it's the first thing I noticed different from my old system. A major step backwards in my view.
Know what you mean but I would be worried if they didn't have a programmer who could sort something out for this in less than half a day, it would be worth it just to stop this thread. It's definitely not rocket science.
What's happening with this function. I just got my box and it's the first thing I noticed different from my old system. A major step backwards in my view.
You are making the mistake that is all too common on this forum, Geoff. Applying common sense and logic to the situation. A cursory glance at the history of posts on this forum demonstrates only too clearly that that sort of thinking does not apply as far as YouView is concerned.
Hi. We agree that this would be useful and we have looked at implementing it, but to do it properly we need to integrate the feature with the MHEG red button system that is provided by device manufacturers like Humax, because broadcasters such as BBC expect to be able to use the back button at certain times when watching a TV channel. It's in our backlog and hopefully it won't take too long, but we can't give you a date right now.
"It won't take too long"... er, that was 3 years ago!
Hi. We agree that this would be useful and we have looked at implementing it, but to do it properly we need to integrate the feature with the MHEG red button system that is provided by device manufacturers like Humax, because broadcasters such as BBC expect to be able to use the back button at certain times when watching a TV channel. It's in our backlog and hopefully it won't take too long, but we can't give you a date right now.
There's a long procrastination stage to be gone through first, but YouView haven't got around to that yet :-)
‘Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful’ Wm Morris
Hi. We agree that this would be useful and we have looked at implementing it, but to do it properly we need to integrate the feature with the MHEG red button system that is provided by device manufacturers like Humax, because broadcasters such as BBC expect to be able to use the back button at certain times when watching a TV channel. It's in our backlog and hopefully it won't take too long, but we can't give you a date right now.
Not long now though, I hope.
Might this be easier in HTML5, by any chance?
‘Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful’ Wm Morris
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my remote has 48 buttons on it all anyone is asking is that you choose one for this function and then let us all know.
Youview's unbelievable slow response to this issue doesn't really show itself as a cutting edge technology provider.
I found this thread whilst looking online for a back channel function shortcut for youview.
Rev rev, bikes more than cars but well done to Hamilton's for his win on a typical British summers day
ATB Rev
https://community.youview.com/youview...
People seem to be peeling off from YouView though, not because of the size of the list or the number of items, but on a single issue basis when there is something they just can't live with, like the lack of padding, or of stretchyvision.
Or as here, the lack of a back button? Though the problem, as YouView express it, is not so much of choosing a button, but of knowing where they have come from, so they can go back there; unlike a web page, a YouView box is not stateless, and unlike a TV, it has a whole plethora of places it could have come from, rather than just an earlier-watched channel :-(
Nevertheless, it is devoutly to be hoped that providers of FreeView Play boxes are even now working steadily through Keith's list(s), giving themselves point after point of advantage over YouView :-)
I hope that YouView will respond to this and other issues because in my opinion it has more going for it than against.
Though there is no truth in the rumours that the space probe currently about to do a flyby of Pluto was actually a Mir replenishment mission programmed at YouView Towers :-)
It's definitely not rocket science.
Might this be easier in HTML5, by any chance?