#Youview too upgrade
Some YouView users will no doubt feel short-changed to be at the back of the upgrade queue, but as the roster of devices expands across retail, BT and TalkTalk, Lomax is keen to emphasise reliability over rushing out new features. There will be a slow migration towards HTML5 rather than a Big Bang.” Over time we’re likely to see a trend towards HTML5 and away from Flash for TV, but right now we’re making the best use of all of those environments as our content providers.
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Lomax adds: “YouView has always been designed from day one to support a number of different content formats and different authoring technologies, so the Flash player we’ve got – Air for TV – will remain in the device and it will power lots of the YouView user interface services that we currently offer, and the HTML5 environment allows new content and new features to be added to the YouView interface. The first devices will receive the necessary upgrade within the next couple of months, after which it will be rolled out across the entire base. The next generation of the BBC Red Button brings live streaming online video into the BBC’s broadcast TV channels, but it relies on the arrival of HTML 5 in the YouView toolkit.
#Youview too update
While TalkTalk YouView customers can expect an update that will bring some of the long-awaited functions already available on the retail products, the first new cross-platform upgrade will be Connected Red Button for the BBC. The stage is set after a new shareholder agreement settled differences between the public service broadcasters – the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 – and the ISPs – BT and TalkTalk. “We’ve got big expansion plans, there is an awful lot of new features that we want to build, we’ve got lots of new technology that we’re investing in, including HTML 5 and Unicast content delivery for live channels.” “We’ve got over a million customers and that’s increasing rapidly so we’re eyeing the 2 million mark in the near future and YouView has ambitions to be in 10 million homes in the UK,” Lomax said. Recombu spoke to Piers Lomax, YouView’s head of engineering, about the roadmap for taking a major slice of Britain’s highly competitive TV market. The free-to-view TV platform is expanding its tech team from 80 to 130 engineers as it aims for the two million UK homes barrier, with a goal of 10 million.
YouView is hiring TV techies to build a smarter service with cloud-based recording and personal recommendations that can handle peak-time viewing with ease.
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