We're subscribers and I don't recall any significant issues. Certainly nothing outside of what you would see elsewhere. We've been using the Panasonic app and Chromecast.
Well that didnt last long, decided that the app is too clunky and that the content is not to my liking. Cancelled subscription.
Hi @weststone the current app is a work in progress, a first version if you like, and will be updated and improved over time as and when available. I'm also hoping BBC Sounds is a first version and that will be as well.
I'm now happy with the disagree icon, because its gone.
Well that didnt last long, decided that the app is too clunky and that the content is not to my liking. Cancelled subscription.
Hi @weststone the current app is a work in progress, a first version if you like, and will be updated and improved over time as and when available. I'm also hoping BBC Sounds is a first version and that will be as well.
Unfortunately you don't really get a second chance once you've lost a subscriber. Paying customers tend not to forget a bad experience, hence the Britbox hemorrhaging of customers. The cardinal sins of streaming is poor content and viewing experience which Britbox has successfully achieved. Obviously it hasn't got the deep pockets of Disney or Netflix but that doesn't excuse the current woeful offering. Stay safe 🌈
No Roy, I wasn't in any way. Thank you for asking. Simply coming your way soon like most things in life. We all need a bit of humour at the moment. Take care Roy. John
Can't wait for the day when Youview get rid of the dreaded darkened banner when using fast forward/rewind recordings.
No Roy, I wasn't in any way. Thank you for asking. Simply coming your way soon like most things in life. We all need a bit of humour at the moment. Take care Roy. John
Indeed so. Just a bit of hydrodigital forecasting, then? 🤞🚿 🔭😀
‘Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful’ Wm Morris
But note that Terry Pratchett didn’t invent resistentialism; Paul Jennings did, years before. Les choses sont contre nous....
(The author) "Claire works full time for NHS Digital, where she has trained hundreds of people in practical benefits management. Her sanctuary is a cottage in Snowdonia, from which she emerges each week to visit health and care organisations across the country, infecting them... "
Having used the YouView Britbox app a few times now (having used the Panasonic & Chromecast versions before), we've not seen any issues. It isn't super fast navigating, but perfectly acceptable.
How will/does Britbox work with the Youview search because on other platforms the content cant even be browsed without a login?
What a great question, so I performed a search for ASHES TO ASHES and 3 returns came back - the BBC iPlayer, the DRAMA channel and Netflix, but no Britbox. I am logged in. So I went into Britbox and performed a search. ASHES TO ASHES came up but when I tried to access it the app crashed.
I'm now happy with the disagree icon, because its gone.
We’ve just had the chance to do a back-to-back comparison between Britbox on YouView and a YouView recording of BBC4 HD, using episode 6 of Wolf Hall.
Our impression is that Britbox gave nothing away on picture quality, in both the candlelit scenes and the bright daylight ones, but that the sound from the YouView recording was much better; full surround 5.1 where the Britbox sound was stereo at best. Or maybe there’s a Britbox setting I missed...
But we had been disappointed with the PQ on White House Farm Murders; which we are now putting down to the source material.
Britbox is still glitchy, and clicks and stalls, and there were no subtitles for Wolf Hall, so it still has some way to go, but the PQ comparison is very encouraging.
A thing we don’t like, though, is that before a programme starts on Britbox, it puts up a whirly thing, but it doesn’t whirl. So we keep thinking it has got stuck. Either the whirly thing should whirl, or it shouldn’t look like a whirly thing, one or the other.
‘Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful’ Wm Morris
I tried it when it first came out, I could have lived with most of the content being available elsewhere or the poor streaming experience but the fact you can't even download stuff from it was the final nail in the coffin.
If it comes, it is likely to be a standalone app in the Google Android TV store, as not everyone uses YouView on these TVs, and the perception that YouView reserves certain apps to itself, however erroneous, is not a popular one.
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Paying customers tend not to forget a bad experience, hence the Britbox hemorrhaging of customers.
The cardinal sins of streaming is poor content and viewing experience which Britbox has successfully achieved.
Obviously it hasn't got the deep pockets of Disney or Netflix but that doesn't excuse the current woeful offering.
Stay safe 🌈
Stay safe 🌈
Take care. John L
And I do hope you aren’t breaching any NDAs there, @John L - can you point me to the public announcement?
Simply coming your way soon like most things in life.
We all need a bit of humour at the moment. Take care Roy. John
Got a link?
No, which is the whole point of a pay monthly, cancel when you want service. But lets just ignore that eh?
https://www.apm.org.uk/event-documents/bm220617-claire-dellar/
But note that Terry Pratchett didn’t invent resistentialism; Paul Jennings did, years before. Les choses sont contre nous....
(The author) "Claire works full time for NHS Digital, where she has trained hundreds of people in practical benefits management. Her sanctuary is a cottage in Snowdonia, from which she emerges each week to visit health and care organisations across the country, infecting them... "
What a great question, so I performed a search for ASHES TO ASHES and 3 returns came back - the BBC iPlayer, the DRAMA channel and Netflix, but no Britbox. I am logged in. So I went into Britbox and performed a search. ASHES TO ASHES came up but when I tried to access it the app crashed.
Our impression is that Britbox gave nothing away on picture quality, in both the candlelit scenes and the bright daylight ones, but that the sound from the YouView recording was much better; full surround 5.1 where the Britbox sound was stereo at best. Or maybe there’s a Britbox setting I missed...
But we had been disappointed with the PQ on White House Farm Murders; which we are now putting down to the source material.
Britbox is still glitchy, and clicks and stalls, and there were no subtitles for Wolf Hall, so it still has some way to go, but the PQ comparison is very encouraging.
I could have lived with most of the content being available elsewhere or the poor streaming experience but the fact you can't even download stuff from it was the final nail in the coffin.
But if you want to watch it on your Sony Android TV, have a shufti at this:-
https://www.britbox.co.uk/help
All welcome!
Err... that was a bad one. It was fun going through their pages and pages of T&C's though.