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Is it worth setting up the talktalk youview box?
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Cybi-Ping
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I've just been sent a free standard youview box from talktalk. After reading the set up guide I'm not sure if its worth the hassle. I have built in freeview receiver in my TV and use the PS3 for on demand. Am I going to get anything extra from the youview box?
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You don't get a standard youview box from TT you get an elcheapo box.
What hassle !!!!!!, just plug it up and off you go.
The USP of YV is the integrated backwards EPG.That gum you like is coming back in style.0 -
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For flips sake Cybi-Ping, they've just given you a free box. So plug it in. And its a plug and play device too.
Oh, and all the multi-award winning reviews have said its the dogs bollox. So whadda ya got to lose?0 -
A YouView box is a Freeview recorder, not just a viewer. You can even record two programmes at once if you want to.If it sticks, force it.
If it breaks, well it wasn't working right anyway.0 -
A YouView box is a Freeview recorder, not just a viewer. You can even record two programmes at once if you want to.
Not this one. Its a zapper box which can pause and play but not record. It's new. And cheap -
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/6126-talktalk-essentials-tv-now-available-to-order.html0 -
Connect the box OP or you will be exterminated, exterminated, exterminated!That gum you like is coming back in style.0
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Not this one. Its a zapper box which can pause and play but not record. It's new. And cheap -
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/6126-talktalk-essentials-tv-now-available-to-order.html
That's a bit rubbish then. Not even a proper YouView box.If it sticks, force it.
If it breaks, well it wasn't working right anyway.0 -
Not this one. Its a zapper box which can pause and play but not record. It's new. And cheap -
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/6126-talktalk-essentials-tv-now-available-to-order.htmlThat's a bit rubbish then. Not even a proper YouView box.
I take your point, but its introduction has actually been well recieved by the tech media. As at £7.50 a mth, for a calls package, broadband and TV box included (plus line rental), its a very cheap way to both watch TV and access free on demand content too.
After all, would you call the £10 Now TV box rubbish because it also doesn't contain a PVR? But of course thats for pay-for content, not free.
YouView killer? My !!!!.
Edit - I can't say !!!! on the forum? Oops...0
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