More info about You view here There is also a link in the article to a PDF file if you can be bothered to read it.

i see that the minimum hard drive is a 320Gb in which 30GB will be reseved for material pushed to the device by content providers. 320Gb is a bit rubbish to be honest if, certainly with HD. minimum should be 500Gb, hard drives will be even cheaper by then.

I don't like the idea of 30Gb being held back so content providers can shove their stuff onto it, that will be like Sky anytime.

If they are going for a TVoIP system then that is what it should be, not a push TV system.

Saying that by the time this box is launched there wiull be so many different ways of getting T.V online that I think it will just fail to take off anyway.

Having Talk Talk on board will stop me ever having anything to do with the platform and I am certainly not going to have a box that have content pushed to it.

The spec says it will save on network usage, guess if there is a popular programme or the user has set up a seres, they can download it over night, so the box will know to find the programme on the hard drive, rather than stream it on the internet to save congestion
Might also help for HD content where streaming might be problematic!

We will see. No doubt at some point it will be used to chuck adverts at people and push content that people are not interested in.

Needs to be DLNA certified! PLEASE!

I presume that will be left up to the manufacture. It is a good idea mind you

We have the specs & know/think we know who/what will launch on YouView, so what do you think will or hope will launch?

These I guess will:
- BBC iPlayer
- ITV/STV/UTV Player
- 4OD
- Demand 5
- BT Vision services
- TalkTalk TV services
- SeaSaw

Also interested:
- Local TV services
- Government Services
- LoveFilm
- Sky Player

These I think could be good to add:
- Qriocity
- Picturebox
- TVCatchUp (doubt this will though)

What do you think?

Not worth guessing what will be on you View, the whole system could fail for a start.


If it does take off , then yes no doubt it will have the main channels on demand service, mind you that depends how much you view will charge them.

I did not Talk Talk had a t.v service as such? I know they pinched Tiscali t.V service, but I don't think many people used it.


Oh yes the so called local T.v that the government wants us to have, I don't see the point myself, because no doubt ours will be stuck in with Brum, so it will all be about Brum and nothing at all about us.


I had a look at lovefilm on the PS3, they gave me 2 hours free and the quality was ok, but content was pretty poor, they wanted me to update my subscription so I can get films Online, I don't think that is going to happen. they gave up now. if they allow people to rent a video online without subscribing to there main service then they may do ok.

i think Seesaw is a total waste of time, well it is via computer anyway, it will have to be a lot better on YouView.

for You View to be any good, we need a better broadband system and it will be years for some people to get that, if they get it at all.