YouView only integrates catchup services into the EPG, so you can see a forward and backward range of dates. If you choose something from catchup, you see the catchup service.
The youview service is more than just a backward EPG.
Not counting the evolving versions there were 3 different types of youview service types: Recorder, Viewer, and TV.
Yes each of them do include a 7 day backward PEG, but all of them had other features availably as part of its youview service.
You could probably do that with the EE/BT TV Box Pro.
From my location the EE/BT TV Box Pro refuses to tune into the best transmitter that is available to it, and instead tunes into a mix, and not necessarily the strongest signal for each multiplex. There is no manual fine tuning to get it to do something sensible.
Not all devices with freely can make use of an aerial.
I'm only just learning about Freely, but my very little knowledge, leads me to believe that Youview and Freely are virtually the same!
Watch live TV via aerial (or via Internet if not a transmitted service). Recording only available via an aerial, catchup via internet.
Have I missed something?
The only youview box that includes regular channels that can be watched and recorded via the internet is the EE/BT TV Box Pro.
It allows a choice between aerial mode and internet mode. The two cannot be mixed to fill each other's channel gaps.
The EE/TV box will not show any channels at all when in internet mode unless you have BT/EE broadband and a BT/EE TV subscription.
In internet mode, as you would be using BT/EE infrastructure, even the normal free channels need a BT/EE TV subscription. You will need a multicast capable router, which EE will supply as part of the subscription. If you want to use your own router, I'm told that some routers do not support multicast.
There is also an EE TV Edge box which only has internet mode and does not include any recording ability. Its regular channels still need a BT/EE subscription and broadband.
Recording only available via an aerial, catchup via internet.
With the EE/BT Pro Box, EE/BT broadband, and any of their TV subscriptions, recording is possible in both internet and aerial mode. Without both EE/BT broadband and a subscription, only aerial recording is possible. Internet recordings will not play if you switch to aerial mode. If you make aerial recordings and then switch to internet mode, those aerial recordings are not guaranteed to play when in internet mode.
Some drawbacks of using the Pro Box recording feature when in internet mode are:
- adverts cannot be skipped on ITV channels;
- BBC channels are not really recorded. They superficially look as though they have recorded but when you play them they are really streamed. They have the same availability as the same programme on iPlayer;
- only two channels can be recorded at the same time in internet mode, but 4 can be recorded simultaneously in aerial mode.
With freely there is no recording from an aerial.
Humax do have a box that includes freely and also includes a separate EPG for recording from an aerial. The numbering between the two EPGs for the equivalent channels are not all the same.
