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Lucy Gill
London
Principal Consultant at ExperienceLab
Interests: User experience of TV UIs, Smart TVs, TV on web, IPTV, red button services,
User experience in mobile, smart phone UI, touchscreen UI,
web UI, telecommunications, UX benchmarking
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Good comment and largely I agree. Bundling a powerline solution with the box (as BT Vision does) would be the best solution and much more reliable than WiFi. That's how I have my Smart TV set-up and it works well.
However, one extra consideration is the rising number of '2nd screen' apps. E.g. apps that let you control your TV from your mobile/tablet or Zeebox type apps that adds services based on what you're viewing. I can see this sort of solution being really important in future (even is YouView was not initially designed to support such things).
Whilst having powerline for your YouView box should not rule this out if there is WiFi on the same network in the same room, it does add a layer of complexity.
YouView - finally nearly here, but will it be worth the wait?
So the news we’ve all (well maybe not all) been waiting for – the internet TV service YouView is finally going to appear in the shops at the end of the month, if Lord Sugar is to be believed. I meet this news with mixed feelings. On the one hand, I can’t help feeling that it may have slightly...
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