Here at Radio & Telly, we’re seeing increasing interest in the YouView TV offering – the service that combines Freeview, a hard-disc recorder, and extra content on your TV via Broadband. YouView’s available to buy on the high-street, or you can get a free box from BT or TalkTalk If you’re keen to get hold [...]

BT Vision users, or those with new YouView boxes from BT, are in for a bunch of new channels “soon” Various announcements over the last few weeks have show that BT has been putting in a lot of legwork to increase the number of TV channels available to its customers. The recent deals aren’t just [...]

BT has today launched its YouView TV service. We take a look at what’s on offer: The Service The YouView service combines Freeview with a large library of on-demand content. With BT, you’ll get the Humax DVR-T1000 YouView box (normally £299) for free, subject to a £6.95 delivery charge and a £49 activation fee. You’ll [...]

Show number 80 of the FrequencyCast podcast, has been released today. FrequencyCast is produced by the Radio and Telly team and covers the latest news on all things TV and radio related, as well as news from the tech world. In show number 80, we look at the following topics: News and listener comments on [...]

Finally, YouView boxes are now available, but at £299, we’re not sure how many folk will be dashing out this weekend to buy one. The first box to be released is the Humax DTR-T1000, and here’s what it offers: Humax DTR-T1000 Humax DTR-T1000 is a combined Freeview receiver, HDD recorder and Internet TV box. As [...]

Broadband provider TalkTalk is set to re-enter the digital TV market, offer a combined Freeview plus Internet TV service. After having suspended its last TV service (originally Tiscali TV) to new customers last year, TalkTalk has unwrapped details of the new offering. As one of the partners of the YouView project, they will be offering [...]

Launch plans for the combined Freeview and Internet service YouView have been announced today, Wednesday the 4th of July 2012.   What will YouView offer? The new box will let you watch and record the existing Freeview channels, and let you access catch-up TV over Internet from BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. Sound [...]

YouView, the much-delayed Freeview plus Internet service, has acquired the services of Lord Alan Sugar. Lord Sugar becomes the non-executive chairman of the venture, replacing Kip Meek. The YouView service, which was due to launch in 2010 is now aiming for a 2012 launch (in time for the Olympics). The project is a joint venture between [...]

YouView, formerly known as Project Canvas, is reportedly set to be delayed until 2012. The service that combines Freeview (for live TV), with on-demand content over the Internet, was originally set to launch in 2010, but was pushed back to a predicted launch of “mid 2011″. According to various online sites, its been hit by [...]