{"id":5465,"date":"2014-02-11T14:16:54","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T14:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=5465"},"modified":"2014-02-11T14:23:20","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T14:23:20","slug":"bbc-c4-itv-moot-internet-based-catch-tv-service-freeview-connect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/02\/bbc-c4-itv-moot-internet-based-catch-tv-service-freeview-connect.html","title":{"rendered":"BBC, C4 and ITV Moot Internet Catch Up TV Service Freeview Connect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who needs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/youview\" target=\"_blank\">YouView<\/a> (IPTV) anyway? The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/bbc\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a>, Channel 4, ITV and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaluk.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Digital UK<\/a> appear to be considering a third bash at the Internet based catch-up TV game (aka &#8211; <em>Freeview Connect<\/em>) after their last attempt, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/youview\" target=\"_blank\">YouView<\/a>, ended up becoming more of a commercial customer retention tool for the big broadband ISPs (e.g. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/tt\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">TalkTalk<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So far around <strong>1 million homes<\/strong> have installed one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/youview\" target=\"_blank\">YouView<\/a>&#8217;s set-top-boxes, which began its life on the back of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/story\/2010\/09\/16\/uk-open-broadband-isp-tv-standard-project-canvas-renamed-to-youview.html\" target=\"_blank\">Project Canvas<\/a> as 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. The service has received a lot of praise but it\u2019s also struggled to expand beyond set-top-boxes for ISPs.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed the majority of those customers come from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/tt\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">TalkTalk<\/a>, with others from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> and smaller ISPs like JT, and yet only <strong>30,000 have sold via retail<\/strong> without ISP branding. Meanwhile the broadband providers are using YouView to both distribute premium as well as Freeview TV content.<\/p>\n<p>In our view that&#8217;s partly because YouView&#8217;s set-top-boxes have until recently been very expensive (only at retail because the big ISPs often include them at no extra cost) and even now for the same money you can get a Freeview HD STB with built-in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/wifi\">wifi<\/a> and a <strong>Blu-ray<\/strong> player, which is something that YouView doesn&#8217;t offer.<\/p>\n<p>On top of that YouView&#8217;s major TV broadcasting partners last year indicated that they wanted the technology to pursue a &#8220;<em>multi-device strategy<\/em>&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/07\/uk-youview-broadband-tv-service-moots-multiplatform-expansion.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>), which was said to have a particular focus on Internet Connected TV&#8217;s. But it&#8217;s alleged that there were some internal differences over the groups future direction, which needed to be resolved before the old partnership agreement expires at the end of <strong>March 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s perhaps little wonder that the major Freeview focused TV broadcasters want to have a third bash, albeit this time at something they can control and stick on more than just a Set-Top-Box for ISPs. At the same time the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/bbc\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a> indicated that it might scale back its investment in YouView (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bbctrust\/news\/press_releases\/2014\/nao_dmi.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>), although in fairness that has arguably been miss-reported because you&#8217;d expect the investment to reduce after the primary R&amp;D \/ launch phase.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2014\/feb\/09\/bbc-channel4-itv-catch-up-freeview-connect-smart-tvs\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a>, the new <strong>Freeview Connect<\/strong> service would be more open to other devices than YouView. The pitch sounds similar to how YouView was first proposed after the demise of Project Canvas but so far YouView hasn&#8217;t been widely adopted outside of its STB role for ISPs and most non-YouView\u00a0STBs and devices\u00a0still have to reach separate agreements in order to show catch-up TV content for the BBC&#8217;s iPlayer, 4OD\u00a0etc. A single solution would be simpler, especially if YouView can&#8217;t be made to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Digital UK, which looks after Freeview and promotes its digital terrestrial interests, has confirmed that a new catch-up TV solution is being explored but so far nobody outside of the main broadcasters seem to know much about Freeview Connect.<\/p>\n<p>A potentially even bigger problem would be that Freeview Connect might cause <strong>widespread confusion<\/strong> among consumers, many of which have only just gotten around to understanding YouView\u00a0(mention the name and some will still ask, &#8220;<em>what&#8217;s that?<\/em>&#8220;), by adding another samey catch-up TV initiative. The scaling back of support in YouView might also worry the projects ISP partners, although equally it could afford them more control.<\/p>\n<p>The fact is that YouView does at least work and it would be far better for the partners to make it more accessible across additional platforms, although clearly that approach hasn&#8217;t happened in the way some had desired and as a result alternatives like <a href=\"http:\/\/tvcatchup.com\" target=\"_blank\">TVCatchup<\/a> have stepped in to fill the void (it&#8217;s fine when the streams aren&#8217;t breaking up).<\/p>\n<p>But is there still a place in the market for Freeview Connect? Maybe but it&#8217;ll need a lot of advertising and\u00a0won\u2019t involve the big broadband ISPs, at least not as primary partners. Meanwhile we expect YouView to live on, fuelled by limited broadcaster support and continued backing from BT and TalkTalk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who needs YouView (IPTV) anyway? The BBC, Channel 4, ITV and Digital UK appear to be considering a third bash at the Internet based catch-up TV game (aka &#8211; Freeview Connect) after their last attempt, YouView, ended up becoming more of a commercial customer retention tool for the big broadband ISPs (e.g. TalkTalk and BT).<\/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-5465","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 v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>BBC, C4 and ITV Moot Internet Catch Up TV Service Freeview Connect - ISPreview UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Who needs YouView (IPTV) anyway? 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