The Search facility is excellent, allowing you find content from both the EPG and On Demand Players. Still, it’s a very handy feature that allows you to use the EPG as kind of a time-travelling Radio Times.Īll menus are got at from the blue Youview button on the remote control from where 5 options – Search/MyView/Guide/On Demand/Settings – are presented. YouView were actually forced to drop their claims that this a unique feature after Virgin contested that TiVo offers that and, following that, Freesat now does so through the Freetime feature. One of the near USP’s of the YouView platform is the ability to scroll back through the schedules in order to access programmes already broadcast on those channels with On-Demand players available through the platform. Some brands will offer a fuller control suite but you’ll need to experiment with which button does what to find out as they’re not always logically aligned, in terms of naming and functionality. The colour coding of the Record (red) and YouView (blue) buttons also helps and it can also act as simple controller for most brands of TV giving you volume and power commands, at the minimum. The remote control is also identical to previous versions and presents an ergonomic design that curves in at the middle making it very comfortable to handle. The platform largely differentiates itself from Freeview on the back of its superior IPTV functionality so having to run it wired is an unnecessary obstacle for the box to fulfil its potential. Why on earth Humax has yet to provide a YouView box with WiFi built-in is a total mystery. There is also a LAN port for accessing the range on On-Demand players. Round the back is another mostly superfluous USB input, a SCART socket, a digital audio out, a composite video connection paired with L/R stereo jacks and a hard power button.
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