![]() Yet more? The universal search feature will bring up options on catch-up or on-demand and show you future episodes which you can set to record. Again, you can scroll back in time for up to seven days and watch something you might’ve missed, or forward to set reminders and recordings. That guide also gets a dedicated button on the remote, and again it’s really slick: fast, easy to read and filter, and with just the right amount of info. Want another option? The dedicated YouView button on the remote will bring up a similar panel, which as well as again showing you what you’re watching will let you jump straight into the various on-demand apps, your recordings or the full TV guide. And, if any of these shows are available on catch-up, you can jump straight into them.Įverything’s beautifully laid out – you get thumbnails of every show, whereas on Virgin it’s all just text – and it’s every bit as fast as if you were browsing Netflix on a phone or tablet. You can scroll forward on this to see what’s coming up later on the channel, or back to see what’ve you’ve missed. For instance, press OK while watching and a semi-translucent info panel will slide into view along the bottom. ![]() YouView is a really well thought out platform, and typically gives you several routes to what you might want to watch. The first thing to note is how easy it is to get to the good stuff. In use, the BT YouView+ Ultra HD box is a really smooth operator. As a result, you’ll need to hook up a TV aerial to the box in order to get the likes of BBC and C4, while connecting the Ethernet port to your BT Hub will let you access the ‘premium’ channels and on-demand content.īT YouView+ Ultra HD box software: YouView wins the day Rather than give you all of the channels over your broadband connection or satellite, as those rival services do, you get half of them via your Freeview aerial. You’ll need most of these, too, because the Youview+ Ultra HD box does things a little differently from Sky Q and Virgin’s V6. Round the back you get HDMI, Ethernet, SPDIF for audio output and ports for aerial in and out. On top you get a few buttons – Standby, Record, YouView, Back and OK – but I can’t see anyone using them unless they lose the remote and find themselves marooned on Animal Planet two minutes before the start of the Champions League Final. Overall it’s nicer than the Virgin V6, but not quite up there with Sky Q. The black plastic it’s made from looks a little cheap and sat next to a PS4 or Xbox One S it’ll appear distinctly last-gen. That’s not something that you’d especially want to do, as it’s fairly unobtrusive in its looks, but don’t expect it to give you any wow moments either.
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