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We're fed up with Sky and are looking to move to something without a subscription, its not worth the price for our little usage. What are good freeview style boxes worth having? Decent UI with recording / pausing is desirable.
 
Youview is great, we went with bt for broadband, phone and tv and after cash back it works out that they are paying us 48 quid this year and at the end of it we have a 200 quid humax box that will function perfectly without a contract!
 
talk talk are giving free youview boxes away with a cheap tv/phone/broadband package I think. was 7.50 a month last time I looked. might be a couple of pounds more now. You can probably get a big pile of cashback through topcashback as well.
 
Do you need a subscription to activate stuff like BT sports/sky now? I'd quite like to buy one off the shelf without subscription.
 
I have a Youview box. It's part of my BT vision subscription. The box is great when it works. Every so often though it throws a wobbler and I need to reset it. Also it can be clunky at times. I'll make a selection, then nothing, so I'll press again and then it does both functions at once and I have to back track. Annoying. Apart from those little things though, good box.
 
Sliver said:
I have a Youview box. It's part of my BT vision subscription. The box is great when it works. Every so often though it throws a wobbler and I need to reset it. Also it can be clunky at times. I'll make a selection, then nothing, so I'll press again and then it does both functions at once and I have to back track. Annoying. Apart from those little things though, good box.
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Ours was like that until a few months ago and then suddenly it became complete rock solid, not sure if it got a firmware update but it was a huge difference. It also seems better when connected to the Internet, it works without a network connection but seemed more laggy.

The new small youview box is meant to be much nippier.
 
Minstadave said:
Ours was like that until a few months ago and then suddenly it became complete rock solid, not sure if it got a firmware update but it was a huge difference. It also seems better when connected to the Internet, it works without a network connection but seemed more laggy.

The new small youview box is meant to be much nippier.
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Thanks for the info. I'll look into getting the new box when my subscription is up for renewal in a few months.
 
Thanks all, just placed the order for you view via BT, have infinity with them so just a small activation charge and then no monthly cost As I've gone for the most basic package. Will be cancelling sky, also selected the option for them to fit a new antenna. We're in a new build which has coax throughout but never connected so will be much tidier cabling wise than the sky install we (Coax tacked to skirting board).

Very tempted to get amazon fire TV, as I have prime account.

Think the Mrs also pays for Netflix so will cancel that and have it put onto the bt account.

£155 to bt, £79 to amazon and after 4 months it will have paid for itself by cancelling our sky subscription.
 
I think the free box is the smaller YouView box that can only buffer live TV. Double-check what you've ordered.
 
Caged said:
I think the free box is the smaller YouView box that can only buffer live TV. Double-check what you've ordered.
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Hell of a shout - what I've ordered allows for "pause and rewind" but not record.

The £5 a month deal allows to record TV. I'll give them a buz and get them to change the package to allow recording.

Thanks!
 
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