[andy_m]

YouView allows streaming channels to be part of the epg, and allows recording of them. I am wondering if this is a way for the BBC to park three, but keep it running, and that in the long term it will be available to record again in this way.

Personally I think the way we consume tv is changing, but not towards online as quickly as some think-we're still in the middle of a full blown migration towards time shifting, with the pvr, rather than services such as iPlayer the driver. An awful lot of telly is still watched live. I think BBC three will die if it isn't able to return to an epg at some point in the future. Although the bbc's policy of platform neutrality might scupper that, of course.