NOW CLOSED YouView feedback thread: non testers: chance to win your own box – worth £199 – please share the TV programme your family Will Not Miss

[AnnMumsnet]

This is the feedback thread for the 15 testers who are trying on demand TV service YouView in their homes with their shiny new Humax DTR-T2000 set-top box worth £199.

Non testers: YouView are also offering you the chance to win a YouView+ set-top box giving you the opportunity to enjoy seamless live, on demand and catch-up television.

They say “YouView is an on demand TV service with over 70 live digital channels. It seamlessly combines seven day catch-up on BBC iPlayer, ITV Player, 4oD and Demand 5 with a library of on demand TV programmes and films. A range of quality content is available via on demand players including UKTV, Sky Store, Now TV, milkshake!, S4C and STV. YouView is offered as part of broadband subscription bundles from TalkTalk and BT. It is also available to buy subscription-free from major retailers and electrical stores”.

For more information visit: //www.youview.com

For a chance to win one please share on this thread the one programme your family make a point of watching together – be it X Factor, Strictly or Doctor Who, please share on this thread and you’ll be entered into a prize draw to win your own box! See T&CS here

Testers – please share on this thread your responses to the following questions from YouView

1 Did you set up your YouView box yourself? If not, who did?
2 How easy did you find it to set up your YouView box?
3 How long did it take you to understand how to use YouView?
4 Has your child/children used YouView? How long did it take them to understand it and get used to it?
5 Which programmes have you most enjoyed watching on YouView so far?
6 Which of the services have you most enjoyed so far?
7 Who in your family has used your YouView box the most?
8 What have you found YouView most useful for so far? Catching up on shows you've missed/ entertaining the kids/finding something to watch to pass time/ watching TV live/ listening to the radio/ search functionality / scrolling back 7 days on the programme guide / using the on demand players or the record functionality?
9 Have you used NOW TV or Sky Store to watch films?
10 Did you try out the free YouView remote record app?

And feel free to add any additional comments.

Please also add a review here

Thanks
MNHQ

[madeofkent]

Another non-tester - Dr. Who. Even if we can't make it on a Saturday night, we record it and all watch it together on Sunday evening. I think the only other one we all watched together once the DCs got older was Merlin, I do miss that.

[pigsinmud]

Non tester - Dr Who and Strictly.

[wellington1975]

non-tester

The Apprentice on now. Homeland when it returns.

[Dinesaur]

1 Did you set up your YouView box yourself? If not, who did?

Me and DH did it. He plugged it all in and I tuned in the channels.

2 How easy did you find it to set up your YouView box?

Very easy.

3 How long did it take you to understand how to use YouView?

Still getting used to it as we're still running Sky as well.

4 Has your child/children used YouView? How long did it take them to understand it and get used to it?

Dd is 18 months and lives pressing the buttons on the remote as they click. She's managed to turn it on and off a few times!

5 Which programmes have you most enjoyed watching on YouView so far?

Peppa pig and Ben and holly for dd, bake off for me.

6 Which of the services have you most enjoyed so far?

The i players, especially milkshake with all the peppa and ben and holly episodes.

7 Who in your family has used your YouView box the most?

Me.

8 What have you found YouView most useful for so far? Catching up on shows you've missed/ entertaining the kids/finding something to watch to pass time/ watching TV live/ listening to the radio/ search functionality / scrolling back 7 days on the programme guide / using the on demand players or the record functionality?

Entertaining dd using the on demand players.

9 Have you used NOW TV or Sky Store to watch films?

Not yet but when sky is gone I think we will subscribe to NowTv as it looks good. Will be starting the free trial once our sky contract ends.

10 Did you try out the free YouView remote record app?

Yes, DH put it on the iPad so we can set things to record.

[whojamaflip]

Non tester here

Family viewing is Strictly - dh, me, ds1, dd1, ds2 and dd2.

And we never miss country file on Sundays.

After school viewing is Horrible histories on DVD.

[marymanc]

No tester- My children and I love Strictly Come Dancing. We all share a bowl of popcorn and sit down watching it..and sing or dance too.

[alphacole1811]

Non-tester...the favourite in our household is The Big Bang Theory! Sheldon and Co. and their interactions are funny!

[WalkingThePlank]

Non tester here.

Its really difficult to find a programme everyone likes but our favourite are Celebrity Pointless followed by Strictly. I am regretting introducing the children to Strictly as I can't hear a word of it!

[TheDailyWail]

Non tester - Strictly Come Dancing for us

[Bintheredunthat]

Non Tester here - Gogglebox - it's one of the few programmes which me, DH and two teens can all happily watch together.
Mind you teens are also on their phones whilst 'watching tv' :-)

[ProfYaffle]

For the people who got a YouView box, what's the deal with the cable they said was needed to connect the box to the router? Have you literally had to trail a cable from one to the other? Just wondering because our router is nowhere near the TV.

As a non-tester, the only show we all watch together is Dr Who. Other than that we split into individual faction, me and dd1 watch Corrie together, me and both dds Monumental Mysteries, the dds together The Simpsons etc etc.

[Cherryjellybean]

Non tester
My daughter likes to catch up on topsy and tim and me and dh have started watching our girl together. She's only 3 so there's not many program's we would all enjoy as a family, just films :)

[Tiptops]

Non-tester: we all love watching Educating the East End together

[WonderlandBride]

We love to watch Under the dome. It's the only thing we make a point of watching together... Usually with a pizza!

[WonderlandBride]

Non tester: We love to watch Under the dome. It's the only thing we make a point of watching together... Usually with a pizza!

[bakingtins]

Non tester - we all (except DH) love Strictly.

[rupert23]

my son is loving the old on the buses programmes and i am watching it too.

[StillNoFuckingEyeDeer]

Non tester.
DH & I always watch Homeland & the Good Wife together.
DD1 is only 3, so doesn't watch much TV, but we occasionally watch an episode of Dora the Explorer or the Octonauts with her.

[DifferentNow]

non tester

We love The Middle. It's funny and comforting and reminds us a bit of us.

[Bubbles85]

Non tester - Downton Abbey. We're watching it on catch up now!

[Rigbyroo]

Non tester we like to sit down together to watch topsy and Tim! Dd is only two and secretly dp and I love it!

[lolapops1]

Non-tester - Strictly Come Dancing,love the costumes,the dances and commenting on their performances.

[CheeryCherry]

We all love I'm a celebrity...get me out of here! Can't wait :)

[Ahardyfool]

We have one of these and am sorely disappointed by it. Am I allowed to say that?

[SunshineOutdoors]

Non tester

Young children here (3 and 1) but one program we have just started watching as a family is X factor (recorded and then replayed the next day, fast forwarding all but the actual singing) dd loves the songs on the live shows and giving her opinion on what she likes. Our first taste of 'family viewing' in the future.