YouView for less: New Humax box costs under £200!If there’s one thing that’s held YouView back, it’s the price of the set-top boxes. Thankfully Humax has just launched a new model that costs just £199 – that’s about £100 cheaper than some of the competition.
The Humax YouView DTR-T2000 / 500GB is also the smallest and fastest Humax YouView box yet.
As you’d expect, it boasts all the usual YouView features, like 70 live free-to-air digital TV and radio stations, with six – count ‘em – in high definition. Its 500GB hard drive will store 300 hours of standard definition recording, or 125 hours of high definition.
Catch-up services like BBC iPlayer, ITV Player, 4oD and Demand 5 come as standard, plus you can pause and rewind live TV.
YouView also has a huge selection of on-demand TV shows and films.
YouView launched in 2012, and was intended to be completely subscription-free, so there would be nothing to pay every month. However, most of the set-top boxes are still quite pricey, so most of them end up being bought as part of a package – mostly broadband deals from BT and TalkTalk – which ties us punters into paying a monthly fee. Which rather misses the point of having a subscription-free service.
A lot of YouView’s shareholders are dissatisfied with how the service has gone, and so will launch next-gen Freeview as a rival in the next few years. It will be called Freeview Connect, and is said to offer the same seamless mix of live channels and on-demand shows and films as YouView.
The DTR-T2000 is available now from a selection of shops including John Lewis, Tesco, Argos, Currys PC World, and Humax Direct.
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