Originally Posted by ashjf:
“YouView IMO will be massive, why? Not only because BBC, ITV, C4, Channel5, Arqiva, BT Vision & TalkTalk are behind it but think what can be done with advertising & selling it.
On screen voice/text:
BBC: Available on iPlayer, now available on YouView.
ITV: Available on ITV Player, now on YouView.
C4: As above (4od)
Five: As above (Demand Five)
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Then people find out that a You View box will cost them at least £200 and that it may or may not work on their broadband.
i am not sure if the BBC would be allow to say that it is available on You view as that will be advertising a commercial platform.
five and 4 have enough problems getting people to use their on demand service as it is and ITV for that matter. If the You view version is as bad as the one on the PS3 then the future don't look good.
On the PS3, both ITV and 4Od is awful, yet the BBC does a pretty decent job,
Bt was behind BT vision and look how that have gone?
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“Then:
SeeSaw: Get SeaSaw on your TV with YouView.”
Most people have no idea what Seesaw is, again if they are going onto you View and want to catch the people, they got to do a better job than they do at the moment.
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“BT Vision: Free YouView box with BT Broadband
TalkTalk: As above (TalkTalk broadband)”
No doubt, but you will pay for it, no doubt with very long contracts, BT already got 24 month contracts, I know Talk Talk have answered theirs to 12 months, but if they are going to give a box away that can be used on any network, I bet you they will up the contract again.
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“Freeview: YouView ads on their site. Plus I would hope that they will make a service where Freeview channels couls be streamed in poor signal areas.
Other services on YouView: Now available on YouView.”
By then apart from the odd few, there will be no poor signal areas and if people have got poor signal then they will go for Dsat, either freesat or Sky.
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The YouView name will be everywhere & people will learn that they can have free and/or pay tv & my guess would be pay tv will be on pay per view or 30 day contracts (except BT & TalkTalk that would have their content on a min of 12 months).”
12 months? you got to be kidding it will go up to at least 18, maybe 24 months, they are not going to give you a box for nothing and then allow you to leave after 12 months.
but if people have already paid £200 for a PVr six months, twelve months before, what makes you think they are going to dig in their pocket to grab another couple of hundred quid just to get a box that may have content online?
The T.v we have at the moment is not that great, will it not be more of the same thing on You View?
I don't see it happening myself, I still think they miss the boat and looking at different sites on the net, I am not the only one who think so, experts in the field also have said so.
We will see, but I know one thing, if I pay out for a new box in the next 2-3 months, which I am thinking of doing, but not 100% yet, I am not going to buy another for a few years.
Originally Posted by finbaar:
“Well said ashjf - I don't think people realise the potential of YouView and think it must come out now. What would be a disaster is for it to come out and be unreliable and get bad publicity. They must get it right.”
i understand what you say and I myself have had my fair share of unreliable PVR's, including the Hitachi which is a Vestal clone, it is not that good. But the technology is not new, Top up T.V have got a pretty reliable box now, ok so it took them a while, but it is stable.
If the technology of You view was all brand new I would say fine, but it is not, the only new thing is the online service, but that have been done in other countries.
I think that they may launch it in 2012, Bt and Talk will grab a load, the odd person will buy one and that is the way it will stay, nothing new will happen to it and we will get the same junk as we do now.
I would love to be proved wrong, but I don't think I will be