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NOW CLOSED: YouView feedback thread: Non Testers: share the TV programme you'd love to rewind, watch again or pause for a chance to win a £100 JL voucher

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AnnMumsnet · 12/03/2013 10:59

Hello

This is the feedback thread for the 20 testers who have received a new YouView TV box and who are currently trying it out in their homes.

YouView say "YouView is a subscription-free television service which seamlessly combines live and catch-up television. The service offers over 70 free to air channels and radio stations via a TV aerial and also connects to any broadband service to bring catch-up and on demand programmes directly to your TV. The TV service, which launched in July 2012, is backed by BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, BT, TalkTalk and Arqiva"

The YouView box allows you to record, pause and rewind TV, as well as featuring BBC iPlayer, ITV Player, 4oD and Demand 5.

Testers: we'll be asking you to add feedback twice - we'd like your first impressions now and in a couple of weeks we will add some more questions.

So, in terms of your first impressions. please....
~ give your overall impression when it arrived
~ describe the set up: did you set up your YouView box yourself? If not, who did? How easy did you / your DH/DP etc find it to set up your YouView box?
~ tell us which TV is it on/ in which room
~ share what you/ your family think the first couple of times you used it - what was the best feature and what, if anything, have you struggled with

If you're not a tester, YouView would love to hear from you - for a chance to win a £100 John Lewis voucher please share on this thread the programme(s) you'd love to pause, record or watch again - this could be a programme that's on now, or something special from the last few years or even something from your childhood - the programme which is really special to you and/or your family. Maybe you were on TV as a child and would like to see it again or you want to relive an Olympic moment or even maybe you're a massive Corrie fan and want to never miss an episode! Please share this on the thread and you'll be entered into the prize draw.

thanks
MNHQ

Please note: The final questions have now been added to the thread on Tues 2 April at 11:30

OP posts:
helcrai · 09/04/2013 16:22

Not a tester. I would love to watch Tiswas all over again. Would take me back to my youth and show my kids what proper kids TV was all about! Non of this Cartoon rubbish that's on wall to wall now.

newfashionedmum · 09/04/2013 16:44

Not a tester

Would love to see the programmes my Mum and dad enjoyed and watched together before he died when I was very young, just to get a peek into their life together.

Tortington · 09/04/2013 16:58

not a tester

has to be west wing

nuff said

melodyangel · 09/04/2013 17:05

Not a tester

Yes yes yes to pause, rewind, re-watch old cookery programmes, some stuff you just need to be shown.

I would love to see old episodes of Dr Who on TV again.

Oh and old Christmas lectures - would be fab to re watch the ones that inspired me to give science another chance after hating it at school.

gunther73 · 09/04/2013 17:14

Any bbc 4 Scandi noir!

Particularly
The killing
Borgen

And
Breaking bad
Spooks
Charlie and Lola for the children
Pingu

Schmedz · 09/04/2013 17:21

Not a tester

I would dearly, DEARLY love to see the whole of China Beach again. It was on TV probably around 20+ years ago and starred Dana Delaney and Marg Helgenberger.

I studied the Vietnam war at school at this was a brilliant TV series.

Oddsod · 09/04/2013 17:29

I love, love, love episode 4 series 1 of The Office and can watch it ad infinitum. I know that Ricky Gervais has fallen out of favour with a lot of people but the staff training day where Brent undermines the management consultant has me in tears of laughter every time. I think the best part of it has to be when he's singing Freelove Freeway with the line "she's gone" and Gareth harmonises with "she's dead" and deadpan Brent replies "she's not dead" and continues singing.
Also the Gareth's reply about ultimate fantasies, a work related question, Gareth walks in halfway through and answers "two lesbians, sisters probably, and I'm watching". Sorry puerile I know but that's my humour.
Another favourite clip I can watch over and over is actually a film clip: Meet the Parents where Jewish Ben is tasked with saying Grace at the dinner table. Priceless.

MimsyBorogroves · 09/04/2013 17:45

I rarely watch TV, but I'd love to be able to access older things I've not seen before - thinking a lot about the 'Child of our Time' series, which I really wish I'd watched from the start, and never seem able to find.

Oh, and 'Heartbreak High', which I was never allowed to watch and so taped when I was around 17. I've not seen Hal of the episodes, and I wish I could. The DVDs are bloody expensive.

Hummymummy · 09/04/2013 17:49

Mary, Mungo and Midge - my favourite childhood programme. Brings back memories of watching with my mum as a little child.

TheTempest · 09/04/2013 17:59

My ultimate tv programme is Doctor Who and if I could rewind so that I can watch them all for the first time, that'd be lovely! In terms of from my childhood/teenagehood, it would have to be Cold Feet. The first programme that ever touched me.

mummytime · 09/04/2013 18:05

Not a tester.

DH and I would love to be able to watch "The boys from the Bush" again, it was an Anglo-Aussi production and was repeated once or twice but has now totally disappeared. I never hear about QPR without thinking of it.

I love Nordic Noir too.

DinoSnores · 09/04/2013 18:22

If I had one, I'd be rewinding Broadchurch back and forth. The folk on the threads here have spotted so many more clues that I have!

BadMissM · 09/04/2013 18:28

Not a tester....

I would like to pause, rewind, and showe again some of the fantastic kids programmes from my childhood, and share them with my kids....

Things like 'The Tomorrow People', 'The Changes', old Dr Who episodes, some fantastic Jackanory episodes... 'The Herbs', 'Hector's House', 'Bagpuss'.....

TheSkiingGardener · 09/04/2013 18:48

Oh it's got to be Wizbit! Childrens programme of my youth. I still wander round singing "ha ha this a way, ha ha that a way, ha ha this a way, my oh my". It's not something that inspires confidence from other people it has to be said!

Dixiebell · 09/04/2013 19:18

Knightmare! I used to dream of being on it. Or Funhouse with Pat Sharp. And of course West Wing, woukd love to rewatch the 7 seasons for the tenth time.

BackforGood · 09/04/2013 19:45

I'm not a tester.
I'd love to see some of the Epic series from when I was young - like Roots, or Holacaust. In fact, I think all teens should have to watch Holacaust at some time in their lives.

serendipity1980 · 09/04/2013 20:04

I'd like to watch Bagpuss again, I used to love it and I think my children would too!

MakeTeaNotWar · 09/04/2013 20:29

I don't know how much I'd enjoy it now but I'd love to watch Grange Hill again from start to finish, used to rush home from school to watch it

Dawnywoo · 09/04/2013 20:30

Not a tester.

Flintstones
Pipkins
Magic Roundabout
G Force
Hong Kong Phooey
Charlie Brown

Hopezibah · 09/04/2013 20:51

Not a tester - but just to say I'm also really enjoying The mimic at the moment!

Maggietess · 09/04/2013 21:14

Father Ted...over and over and over again...it's always funny!

"Now again Dougal these toy cows are small, the ones in the field are far away...small...far away..."

Cracks me up every time!

Salmon8 · 09/04/2013 21:37

Hi I would definitely pause rewatch and rewind Miranda as its the best programme ever. If you are ever having a bad day just to be able to watch it on tap would make any day bright again. I think it should be prescribed for people with stress so they can laugh their socks off.

Grey24 · 09/04/2013 22:31

I would love to go back to being 9 years old and watching Blakes 7 for the first time, so that I could pause it when my little sister came in protesting at bedtime and so I could not miss the final episode when I was forced to play in a school concert against my will! No-one understood how important that programme was to me (why would they) and no-one I knew at that time even had a video recorder, never mind pause and rewind/rewatch services. I would have felt so much happier going in to play my violin at the concert if I thought I could have caught up on Blakes 7 the next evening... sigh! Sounds so stupid I know, but I loved it. Thank goodness I have modern Doctor Who available now and with DVD recording...

GoingGoingGoth · 09/04/2013 22:32

Not a tester- but would love to watch Black Books (again & again & again)

StainlessSteelCat · 09/04/2013 22:53

Not a tester - but I would love to rewatch: Twin Peaks, Babylon 5, The Killing (any of them).I know they are all on DVD, but that's not quite the same as having to be in front of the TV once a week. So many great drama series (of so many genres ...) and even now when I can record them I want to have a weekly session :)