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@col.mase1 wrote:
Hi
would like to thank you for this response did find the problem same as you
said just like to know when satellite connection will be supported by
youview or similar? any ideas
Regards
YouView are famously close-mouthed about future developments, but we have seen no sign of even a recording capability, and over a year has gone by since the launch of YouView on these sets.
My hypothesis is that the footprint of YouView on these boxes is too big to coexist with the satellite tunings, and nobody knows how to write overlays - it ought to be possible, say, for the TV to write the satellite tunings out to a USB stick when switching to YouView mode, and to read them back in when switching back to Freeview.
All conjecture on my part, though,
Bottom line? Nice though the YouView UI is, and handy though the 7-day backward EPG is, the only fundamental loss on the Freeview side is the itv hub and All4 players, which are only on the YouView side, But a £15 NowTV box will give you those on the Freeview side, and you don't need to subscribe to NowTV (unless you want to) so that's a one-off £15.
if you really want YouView though, get a proper YouView box, and plug that into the TV. That's the only way you will get YouView and the Sony satellite service to coexist on one of these TVs for the foreseeable future 
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@col.mase1 wrote:
Hi
would like to thank you for this response did find the problem same as you
said just like to know when satellite connection will be supported by
youview or similar? any ideas
Regards
YouView are famously close-mouthed about future developments, but we have seen no sign of even a recording capability, and over a year has gone by since the launch of YouView on these sets.
My hypothesis is that the footprint of YouView on these boxes is too big to coexist with the satellite tunings, and nobody knows how to write overlays - it ought to be possible, say, for the TV to write the satellite tunings out to a USB stick when switching to YouView mode, and to read them back in when switching back to Freeview.
All conjecture on my part, though,
Bottom line? Nice though the YouView UI is, and handy though the 7-day backward EPG is, the only fundamental loss on the Freeview side is the itv hub and All4 players, which are only on the YouView side, But a £15 NowTV box will give you those on the Freeview side, and you don't need to subscribe to NowTV (unless you want to) so that's a one-off £15.
if you really want YouView though, get a proper YouView box, and plug that into the TV. That's the only way you will get YouView and the Sony satellite service to coexist on one of these TVs for the foreseeable future
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