It's grid-view is clearly laid out and we like the thumbnail view of what you're currently watching, as it means that you can keep watching while you set up recordings or work out what to watch next.
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Live TV is likely to be one of the areas you want to access first, and the YouView EPG is still one of the best.
It now just feels a lot quicker to move around, accessing all of the box's features. In particular, we noticed the animations, such as the menu sliding up from the bottom of the screen where a lot smoother. I am assuming that the BT box had some sort of by-pass that the TT box doesn't. When it's plugged in the screen just stays black.
If it isn't plugged in I get the usual 'weak signal' message. With the TalkTalk YouView box this no longer works. One of the benefits of the new box is that the interface is now a lot smoother and slicker. This involved having another TV cable coming out of the YouView box and plugging into the TV (Samsung). All the while, the current programme plays in the background full-screen, so you don't have to stop watching. This then lets you choose what you want to do, including selecting on-demand, the TV guide, recordings and BT Vision. A dedicated YouView button brings up the main menu, which slides into view from the bottom of the screen. We've said it before, but the YouView interface is one of the best out there. After a few minutes of set-up you're ready to go. All you have to do is let the box search for TV stations, then enter your postcode, so that the listing can be customised by your location. That's no bad thing, as it's extremely simple to use. Powering the box up for the first time will be immediately familiar to anyone who's used YouView before, as the interface is standardised across all products. If your router isn't near the BT YouView box, you'll need to invest in a pair of HomePlug powerline adaptors instead. It's disappointing that there's still no Wi-Fi, or even the option of Wi-Fi through a USB dongle. You have to use the Ethernet port, as the YouView+ box has to be connected to the internet. If you want to hook the box up to an external amp, you can use the stereo phono or optical and coaxial S/PDIF outputs.
There are also legacy ports for older TVs, including SCART and composite out. Round the back are the same range of connectors you'd expect to find on a modern PVR: Ethernet, HDMI and an aerial input for the dual tuners (there's a pass through, so you can still hook up your TV's tuner, too). Newcomers to BT will get the box for free, but they need to pay an activation fee of £35 for Infinity, as well as a Home Hub delivery. It's not just smaller, as the processor has been upgraded, while noise has been reduced. Then you’ll have to subscribe to the BT Entertainment Ultra HD package, yours for £15 per month, on top of the standard £17.99 a month line rental, £44 engineer installation fee, and £50 for the box. This is largely down to miniaturisation of parts and BT opting to use a 2.5in laptop hard disk, rather than a 3.5in desktop drive. In fact, it looks a lot more like a plain set-top box rather than a hard disk recorder. The first thing that's evident is that this box is a lot smaller than the old one. Manufactured by Humax, the second generation BT YouView box is completely customised for BT. See all of the best BT TV package deals deals on uSwitch This time around, with its brand-new YouView box, BT is back with its own custom box. For example, there was no way to directly access BT's unique content from the remote control. While that proved useful to get a first generation service out, the lack of customisation proved to be a slight detriment. It made sense at the time, as this was the best set-top box available and, thanks to the way YouView works, didn't need any customisation to work with Vision: you just plugged it in to BT Broadband and the box discovered the extra services available to it. We had the chance to explore the new YouView platform at the company's headquarters and there's definitely more snap, even running on the old Humax DTR-T2000 box.When BT first switched its Vision TV service to YouView, it launched with the Humax DTR-T1000. The MyTV section, which collates all your recordings, now uses thumbnails, rather than just presenting a list of titles as it currently does, so it's quicker to scan through and find what you're looking for, with less reading.Īll this makes things feel lighter and more modern, and much more dynamic than the previous YouView experience. The new system is more visual than the old: the settings menu is no longer a list spread across pages, instead each area is represented with an icon so it's easier to find what you're looking for, be that audio options or parental controls. That means can you can access Netflix, for example, by hitting the YouView button and scrolling across in the bottom ribbon, without the full-screen takeover of the current and past system which moves you through several pages.
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