Barry, thanks for the welcome ..... very much appreciated.
Just writing some early thought for those that have yet to buy or for anyone else interested. I've had the box for an hour or so - so it really is just first impressions.
My first impressions are being extremely thankful for the ability to record these channels. I have read somewhere or other that you can record more than the stated channels dending on the multiplexes involved. At the moment I have started to programme in many recording and they have yet to alert me to conflicts or too many stations so I'm hoping that the way it deal with the conflicts is to alert rather than accdept the booking butb then simply not do it and give a retrpospective error instead.
My current or previous way of working is by having to BT Youview boxes working together. The RC remains the same code so that when I switch one on the other switches off and I found that this has been a great way of recording and viewing programmes. I have recoded the RC on the new box to a different channel and I think I may use the new box purely as a sort of bulk recorder and the BT Youview box as the box I watch live and also a spontaneous recorder.
I've been fortunate to be a beta tester for Youview from the start and benefited from that over the years with several boxes and new releases ... and the one thing I will say is that I find this new box feels very slow and clanky in comparison - and that is dissapointing - to the Youview boxes I have been using. And the players and apps feel extremely slow for example when compared to an Amazon Fire TV box. It's a shame that they haven't included more processing power. I can see me resorting to the Amazon box forthe players as well as all my Kodi "unmentionable" apps.
There are still functions I'm perplexed that Freeview and Youview don't include. For example when wanting to record a programme but having too much already being recorded I want to be able to hit a colour button on a programme and for it to show me when the programme is being re-broadcast later so I can record it later.
Anyway ..... just some first impressions from a newby and here is hoping for no nasty surprises.
Jeff
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