BT HUMAX YOUVIEW BOX REVIEW TV
BT HUMAX YOUVIEW BOX REVIEW FREE

It may be two years overdue, but the YouView experience was worth waiting for. It may not perfect, but YouView really is a strong proposition. The user interface is fast and intuitive, image quality top notch, and the way IPTV services have been wrapped into the mix beguiling. What we actually have here is a kick-ass PVR, with immaculate Catch-up integration, which should be of interest to everyone.Įxpensive it may be, but with scope for expansion Lord Sugar's new toy is one to hire not fire.

BT HUMAX YOUVIEW BOX REVIEW TV

YouView: VerdictĪccording the marketeers, YouView is on a mission to bring a connected TV experience to the great unwashed - but this box is wasted on such tech numpties. Streaming proves buffer-free (although this is dependant on your broadband speed, a minimum of 3 Mbps is recommended) rather cleverly a small partition on the hard drive is reserve to cache streams in order to provide a smoother viewing experience. YouView: Picture Qualityīoth broadcast TV and recorded image quality are excellent, the latter transparent to source.

More services are promised, including Sky's Now TV PPV offering. What's more, if you've BT or TalkTalk then you'll be able to access even more content. There are over 70 TV and radio channels to choose from, including HD options such as BBC One HD and there's also a library of on demand content. While Smart Freeview recorders already offer BBC iPlayer alongside sundry other services, this is the only platform to pony up Players from the BBC, Five, Channel 4 and ITV. YouView: Contentīlending broadband with linear telly might seem an invitation to calamity, but YouView's diligence seems to have paid off – the interface works beautifully. The latter isn't for media playback, but a Humax Wi-Fi dongle. At the time of writing, BT had not announced its YouView pricing. It made sense at the time, as this was the best set-top box available and, thanks to the way YouView works, didnt need any customisation to work with Vision: you just plugged it in to BT Broadband and the box discovered the extra services available.

BT HUMAX YOUVIEW BOX REVIEW FREE

There’s a similar one due from Huawei, which TalkTalk will use for its IPTV service and supply free to subscribers paying at least £24 a month for its phone and broadband. When BT first switched its Vision TV service to YouView, it launched with the Humax DTR-T1000. That translates to 250 hours of HD recordings, or 600 hours of standard definition. This unit has 1TB of storage, which we’re told is good for 60 hours of UHD content. It’s a set-top box with a built-in hard disk, which lets you record broadcast programming.

In addition to HDMI and aerial loopthrough, there's a retro pairing of Scart and AV phono outputs, an optical digital audio output, Ethernet and USB. Made by Humax, the DTR-T1000 is the first piece of YouView hardware. Essentially, the hardware is the same as every Humax YouView box we’ve reviewed. In other respects, this YouView debutant functions just like any other PVR, recording digital TV to a 500GB hard drive beneath the hood. But for a non-subscription option it's still undeniably cutting edge. Today not so much, it's already available on the VirginMedia TiVo service.

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