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Originally Posted by danielf
I think the OP was just commenting on how well interactive works on a bog standard freeview box compared to VM's interactive offering?
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Yeah, I rather thought there might be a clue in the thread title...
Tonight I tried to use VM's interactive service for the Open golf coverage. After about a minute of "just loading, please wait", it went away - again. I'll need to reboot to get it back.
The recent BBC1 'Joseph' show had an interactive section, but only for satellite and Freeview viewers.
Does VM have a working red button interactive service?... No.
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Originally Posted by Solventcandy
it isnt better than VM by a long shot...
Does freeview have Ondemand?.... No
Does it @ the moment have a totally supported PVR service?... No
You cant really compare VM and Freeview, they are totally different platforms, it would be like comparing the £ and the $!!
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Of course you can compare them. They both aim to deliver a digital TV service, so compare them on that basis.
- My short experience suggests that Freeview is streets ahead of VM in interactive capability. I'm reliably informed that Sky's interactive is also much faster than VM's.
- Ondemand is so slow and unreliable that I rarely bother with it. By the time I've rebooted the box to get it working, and dragged through the pages of menus to try to stumble across something I might want to watch, I usually give up and find something else to do.
- Freeview does not have a 'totally supported' business model, or pricing structure. You can buy a PVR box of your own choice, and get on with it yourself.
VM is anything but cheap, and yet all their functionality seems dreadfully slow and highly unreliable. Why do I have to keep rebooting VM's digital TV box every time I want to use one of VM's digital TV functions?