Sony is the only TV brand to offer YouView on a TV. The retail version of YouView also boasts self-explanatory Discover and Watchlist functions. This integrates all key mainstream catch-up TV services (BBC iPlayer, ITVHub, Demand 5, All4) to simplify playback.Ī universal search function helps to discover content across linear channels, catch-up and on-demand players.
The platform itself is built around a programme guide that both looks ahead seven days, and rolls back. In total, there are currently more than three million YouView devices in use.
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It’s available as a tuner app for Sony’s connected 4K Android TVs, too. It’s also on retail PVR set-top boxes from Humax. YouView is now the OS behind the BT TV, TalkTalk and Plusnet set-top boxes. YouView is available on PVRs and receivers, the Humax DTR-T2000 (available in 500GB or 1TB drive versions) being the most recent, as well as subscription TV services from BT, TalkTalk and Plusnet. YouView may have been conceived as a universal TV platform for tomorrow, but things didn’t play out quite as planned. But its eventual arrival created a new template for TV as we know it now. It had suffered countless delays when under development as Project Canvas. Lord Sugar, brought in to “steer the ship,” described the YouView launch as “a great moment in British television.” The project cost a whopping £70m to develop, with £10m coming directly from the licence fee purse. Launched under the chairmanship of Lord Alan Sugar, YouView was backed enthusiastically by the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, Arqiva, BT and TalkTalk. It was the first to integrate terrestrial TV with IP-delivered channels and catch-up content, a prescient innovation when the core technical specification was published in 2011. YouView is the granddaddy of advanced TV platforms.
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