{"id":1104,"date":"2012-06-21T13:50:07","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T12:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2012-06-21T13:50:07","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T12:50:07","slug":"bbc-director-confirms-uk-youview-broadband-tv-service-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/06\/bbc-director-confirms-uk-youview-broadband-tv-service-delay.html","title":{"rendered":"BBC Director Confirms UK YouView Broadband TV Service Delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/bbc\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a>&#8217;s Director General, <strong>Mark Thompson<\/strong>, has confirmed that products based off the forthcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/youview\" target=\"_blank\">YouView<\/a> (IPTV) technology, which will be bundled by several ISPs and also offered separately as a subscription free broadband TV service, won&#8217;t be available before the end of July 2012 (Q3).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Thompson told a government Select Committee for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.culture.gov.uk\" target=\"_new\">Department of Culture, Media and Sport<\/a>(DCMS) that &#8220;<em>IPTV turns out to be quite difficult to do<\/em>&#8221; and they wanted &#8220;<em>a completely stable product<\/em>&#8221; to be ready before launch.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadcastnow.co.uk\/news\/multiplatform\/thompson-no-youview-before-olympics\/5043504.article?blocktitle=LATEST-NEWS&amp;contentID=828\" target=\"_blank\">news<\/a> has been widely expected since April 2012 when one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/youview\" target=\"_blank\">YouView<\/a>&#8217;s key partners, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/tt\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">TalkTalk<\/a>, stated that it would &#8220;<em>launch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/youview\" target=\"_blank\">YouView<\/a> into UK homes in summer 2012<\/em>&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/04\/delayed-uk-youview-broadband-tv-launch-hints-at-exclusive-isp-content.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>). That was a notable change in language from their previously vague references to the first half of calendar year 2012 and suggested a slip to at least Q3-2012 or possibly even Q4-2012.<\/p>\n<p>The product, which is a <strong>Joint Venture<\/strong> project between the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/bbc\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a>, ITV, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>, Channel 4, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/tt\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">TalkTalk<\/a>, Arqiva and Channel 5 (Five), now runs the risk of being so late to market that it could end up proving unattractive. A modern wave of increasingly sophisticated TV&#8217;s, Smartphone&#8217;s and other devices now include similar IPTV features that could make the \u00a3100-\u00a3200 set-top-box a tough sell.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile YouView and its partners recently opened up registration for <strong>2,200 additional trialists<\/strong> to help test the service before launch. Sadly a strict NDA prevents them from talking about it, which is a shame since by now YouView&#8217;s partners should be promoting its merits from the highest rooftops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC&#8217;s Director General, Mark Thompson, has confirmed that products based off the forthcoming YouView (IPTV) technology, which will be bundled by several ISPs and also offered separately as a subscription free broadband TV service, won&#8217;t be available before the end of July 2012 (Q3).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,42,102],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-video-streaming","tag-iptv","tag-youview"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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