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Originally Posted by Chad
however I had a shot of the Youview box last week and was fairly impressed. It's not as good as TiVo but does offer many of the same key features. .
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I've seen a few posts on the DS forum and some aren't too impressed. Of the few complaints I can remember, there is no search feature for the linear channels and you can't add any padding to recordings (though I believe it has a dynamic EPG). You can't do any manual tuning and are limited to auto tune based on a postcode. The opinion seems to be that it's suitable for users who just want basic functionality, which was probably the aim. But I remember thinking how massively feature rich Tivo is in comparison.
Sky have the funds to devlop a new box; I suspect they're even doing it now. but the development cycle for youview and even the VM Tivo shows that it's not a piece of cake and There's not a lot of functionality that Tivo is missing anyway.