Originally Posted by RichGW:
“Thanks but I'd already done that. I can get the remote to control the tv but I want to force the volume control to always control the tv volume rather than the youview box volume. At the moment it only controls the tv volume if you press tv first.”
You're not the first person to say that. I read a review the other day and the reviewer complained about this exact thing and put it down as a negative.
Originally Posted by wwwebber:
“Not standard on any of my devices. If you want sky features then there's only one place you should be looking.”
What are you referring to as a 'Sky feature'? After all the time they took to get YouView into the shops, the least they could have done was make the user experience the best available. The OP isn't the first person to mention things like recordings being awkward to access and the order of how programmes are stored etc. These things aren't 'Sky features' they're just YouView fails at the moment because they should have had all these things nailed by now instead of just rushing it out in time for the Olympics.
I think it'll be a fantastic service in the future but right now it's not worth £299 and it's not worth entering into a brand new landline & broadband contract just to access free catch-up that's readily available anyway. Also don't think anybody in their right mind would pay for channels that they can't record (especially when they're being delivered by a service making a massive deal about on-demand and watching on your own schedule!). Maybe when they've ironed out the little issues and added a range of apps and services to sit alongside then it will start to look really interesting. For the time being though, my Sky box is staying put!