YouView & FreeView/FreeSat Merger
My long held hopes are of YouView doing satellite as well as over the air.
The FreeSat/FreeView merger gives them this opportunity to adjust their backend software & prepare a hybrid box of aerial/Sat inputs a decent processor with WiFi internet with apps & an SSD or HDD with storage.
The FreeSat/FreeView merger gives them this opportunity to adjust their backend software & prepare a hybrid box of aerial/Sat inputs a decent processor with WiFi internet with apps & an SSD or HDD with storage.
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As various people have pointed out on other threads there's not much to be gained by receiving both Freesat and Freeview broadcast services.
Are you in a bad DTT signal area so rely on Freesat but like the YouView box features? If so maybe ask Freesat to make a better box or support IP services like Now(TV)?
Do you regularly move between houses with different Freesat/view setups and want to take a box with you? Maybe have a look at Roy's remote access setup which he's described a few times.
Or is this about the YouView on Sony app on your TV? That isn't magically going to get better because two companies in the same industry are merging. That's very much between YouView and Sony, not Freeview/sat.
I haven’t used the Slingbox for a while now, and they will be shutting up shop pretty soon, so going that route isn’t really an option any more.
We’ve now got 2 TVs with Freeview and Freesat, but nobody seems to make a PVR with both.
And if anybody ever did, it wouldn’t be YouView, who don’t even have their own box on the market any more.
I’m also a bit bemused that @DJHB1980 thinks that anything very much has changed by dint of Freeview and Freesat being managed by the same company now. If there are new and advantageous commercial terms, I haven’t heard anything about them. And the current arrangements don’t seem to be a barrier to the Freeview plus Freesat TVs, like the ones we have now.
But what is the bitter complaint against the new Humax Aura? No Freesat? Hardly. No Netflix. A streaming service. Time to wake up and smell the coffee; and it won’t be YouView flavoured, and nor Freesat either.
I do agree the sales of smart TVs have been on the increase.
There is now not as many PVRs on sale in the like of Argos as there used to me say a few years ago.
The likes of Ruko as well as Amazon Fire TV devices have also seen there sales increase over the last or so.
Even my sister moved her T2000 Youview retail box to her bedroom when she got her 2019 Samsung 4k smart TV and I got her a 1gb USB stick to put in the back for her TV and so far she's only used that for time shift. So she can pause live TV and fast forward some of the ads.
She's like me and well over half the monthly TV viewing is now streaming via free ones as well as the main payed for ones.
if the kit is already there as in dual tuners of both the aerial & satellite what is the limitations orb the difficulties you may come up against.
Remind me again - where are the satellite tuners on a YouView box?
& any new PVR could easily have both sets of inputs.
I'm genuinely not trying to be an *** about it, what's the actual benefit beyond "one (expensive) box to rule them all"?
This - maybe it would be easier to get and channels you're missing down the network connection most TVs and boxes already have rather than paying more to add an extra tuner that we've not yet found the reason to have?
Place a freeview box on top of a freesat box then glue the remotes together and bliss your dreams come true.
Maybe start a cottage industry selling them on amazon for the eagerly awaiting masses.
You could even pitch it on dragons den calling it the tuna combo (if subway don't object )
Can't believe no one has actually thought of this brilliant answer to the question that no one's asked.
Then not only have you got all the functionality you desire, you even have it on a device with a built-in screen.
Why would anybody want a ‘blind’ box, compared with that? 😛
https://www.world-of-satellite.co.uk/satellite-and-terrestrial/digital-receivers/multi-tuners-and-combo-receivers/vu-plus-duo-4k-se
It took another update today. The UI now looks very similar to Google TV, although it's not quite the same, and the specific functions for refining recommendations are removed.
Now I just need 'now' (previously known as nowTV) and the Netflix on it
Youview boxes are relatively inexpensive devices. The cost of adding a dual satellite tuner would be a significantly bigger proportion of the production cost than it would be for a TV.
I apologise if I’ve frustrated anyone.
internet Apps FreeView & FreeSat with a harmonised EPG and delivery system. Maybe someone will do it but it seems it won’t be YouView.
maybe i think like this because I had a BluRay/VCR combo, with a hard drive PVR which did everything backwards and forwards.
I just love the 1 device solutions & know they work and it can be done.
I'm convinced people only use freesat as they can't get a decent terrestrial single and not out of preference and it brings absolutely nothing to the freeview table.
Really don't see why you hanker for such a pointless addition.
I’ve connected and enabled our Freesat because we can’t get COM7, which carries BBC4 in HD, and which I am rather partial to.
But it’s a complete bugger to swap our LG TVs from Freeview to Freesat, (though I am still trying to figure out how my wife did it by accident once, as she couldn’t possibly have taken the only, long-winded, route I know).
But even then, the only reason I can do it is that both terrestrial and satellite signal are pumped into our house from a central server, down the thinnest yellow piece of fibre optic you ever saw, and then surface in every room, thanks to the hi tech overkill you can see in this camera shot (there’s a Philips Hue hub and a Hive hub to the left of the BT router, but they are almost whited out):-
which we have extended ourselves (or at least my wife has, under my mild direction as to topography, but the neatness, cable routing and labelling, which I could never hope to emulate, are all down to her).
Or else we would probably not have bothered.
But it does reveal the other principal reason people have Freesat; they have a satellite dish, probably ex-Sky, and they don’t want to shell out for a terrestrial aerial, and this leads them to Freesat.
But you would have to be in a pretty unusual situation to want a PVR that would record both Freeview and Freesat; you’d need a dish and an aerial, or a setup like we have. Plus a situation like we have, where we can get most Freeview and Freesat channels, but are forced onto Freesat for BBC4 HD, and might like to record it.