News - Mobile operator EE launches set top box

[HEXUS]

Offers 70 Freeview channels, catch-up and on demand services.

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[Roobubba]

"Interested folk are asked to surrender their emails to be notified about availability."

Hahaha this is so true. I switched from Orange to giffgaff about 10 months ago, then to 3 when giffgaff utterly screwed over their customers a couple of months ago. I STILL get texts from EE, it's really annoying!

[cheesemp]

Sounds like the sort of functionality that youview are aiming for however with BT/talk talk now calling the shots i'm not sure it'll ever make it... Seem more interested in locking it down than sharing content (for example no netflix/now tv entertainment/amazon prime due to a silly rule that all TV content must be 'broadcast' for it to appear despite ignoring this rule for films...)

[kingpotnoodle]

It's the sharing feature that grabs my attention, Windows Media Extenders were an amazing idea and I would be buying in instantly if YouView could share recordings and features around to my other TVs (App or client box, whatever) and to tablets via an app.

[Percy1983]

These are feature I have on my HTPC, but it certainly wasn't an out of box experience to setup.

I have 6 HD tuners (4xT2 and 2,S2) and can share them with media extenders (got a 360 in the bedroom for this alone), other PCs, andriod phones/tablets my windows phone etc. I am not limited to any number of devices which is nice but am limited to 8 streams or 6 muxs.

As said it took a lot of setup so if this work out of the box it might be worth it for my parents (currently youview).

[OilSheikh]

Am I the only one who does not watch live TV ? There's so much junk.

[Percy1983]

Am I the only one who does not watch live TV ? There's so much junk.

Much less junk if you don't bother with sky.

[aceuk]

Netgem (the company that makes the EE TV box) should sell it to end users so they don't have to sign up to EE Broadband.

[MrComputerSaint]

Bah, loads of channels with nothing on.

[mikerr]

Am I the only one who does not watch live TV ? There's so much junk.

Not watched live TV since I got a TiVo 15 years ago !