* Posts by RedBadger

3 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Nov 2012

Freeview's rumoured '£100m YouView killer' is real – and it's yet another digital TV thing

RedBadger

Re: No

Absolutely right. I have a youview box. I'm not with talktalk or BT. Just bought it from a shop and plugged it in. No idea how anyone could think that the broadcasters have 'lost control of it'. As far as YouView is concerned, some of the UI is great. Some of it is a bit crap. Specifically it is horrendously slow. It's an under-powered bit of kit. It really struggles to respond if it is recording 2 programs.The EPG is very slow most of the time. No local EPG cache seems bizarre. The options it throws up if you try to watch a channel that you can't watch due to other recordings in progress make it far too easy to cancel one of the recordings in progress instead of 'doing nothing'. On the whole it is OK, but could have been so much better.

Brits' HSBC bank cards, net access goes TITSUP

RedBadger

Re: Bring back the cash economy!

£800 in 2p pieces? Really? I'd be amazed if they accepted that. If they did for you, you must have got them on a good day. Technically 2p pieces are only valid up to a payment amount of 20p. £1 coins are the lowest denomination you can pay an unlimited amount in. (http://www.royalmint.com/aboutus/policies-and-guidelines/legal-tender-guidelines)

Why do Smart TV UIs suck?

RedBadger

Topfield MyStuff EPG

Some of these companies that write their own EPGs should employ the blokes that wrote MyStuff for the Topfield PVR. It's fantastic. Best EPG ever.