Yes the interface is very slick, and I definitely like it, but why only launch a little bit, why not the whole thing?Īt the moment the red button feeds for Virgin's V+/V boxes are accessed via the red button. I had a feeling it was going to be app driven.Īs a previous poster said, you can't get the weather on it, no lottery results, sport only doing F1 at the moment. it certainly isn't for live events! If they think iplayer HD quality constitutes the supposed 24 HD streams for the Olympics then they will get alot of angry viewers, It seems the BBC want to go the streaming route. You should be posting that in BBC Internet Blog

Having said all that, of the various incarnations of this sort of thing, this looks about the best I've seen, and does a pretty good job of bringing web content to the tv. Also not sure you need the video layer under a text story - maybe make the pages more interesting with an image or two. And on the news text, scrolling a page at a time might be better than just four lines at a time might be better. Plus, a top row for navigation might work better then the drop down - a bit more in keeping with the website. Which I think works better than the news video, where they scroll one at a time, and the left most one is the currently selected one. And if you're watching a video, you can call up the rest, but scroll across the current four, before the next four scroll into view. At the minute just F1, but looks like they might have a top level navigation across the top. Seems pretty good here - certainly a big improvement on what we had up until now on the old V+ box.

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