Modern Telly

[ferrarilover]

So YouView is like Sky Plus, whereas Samsung is like an internet enabled TV?

If I had an internet TV, could I go to a miscellaneous website of questionable legality and stream live football from there straight into the TV?

Matt.

[cambgull]

I did forget to mention with YouView, that you can go backwards using the guide. It then automatically finds the right place on iPlayer, 4oD etc. You don't have to go onto a different application.

The Samsung is more like a Smartphone. The browser it uses is not a full internet browser which means things like online shopping is a no-go. You can't do Visa Verification and the Mastercard version on them and it would take an age to fill in details anyway as the keyboard is not very smooth, however is fine for short typing like a web address.

As for your last question, I don't know. In theory you could, but whether you could remove the adverts that appear over the video is another question. I'd have to try it one day but we don't have WiFi yet in our store. I know you can watch YouTube videos so it is possible. You can always plug a laptop into the TV in the worst case scenario.

[Glostergull]

Saw Youview advertised on TV last night. Will check up on this as it seems you didn't have to be signed up with any particular service.
I expect they won't get this service in Afgahnistan. There's a Telly Ban.

[cambgull]

It's basically Freeview+ with the ability to watch programs from the last week easily.

[AustrianAndyGull]

I'm a celebrity get me out of here is on again soon praise the lord. Why don't ITV run this idea for a programme. Get 10 celebrities to live on some of Britains roughest housing estates for a month and the ones who make it through alive win, the ones who have lost the odd limb from a stray Brazilian Toza attack or from having to have a gangrenous leg off due to stepping on an infected needle whilst getting changed in the local municipal pool or from being ambushed on the way back from the Spar by a predatory pack of tracksuits that look like pyjamas wearing hoodies they get to spend another week on the estate until they either get voted out or murdered in a targeted arson attack. It would be cheap to make, stick 'em in Bransholme, Hull or Highfields and Woodlands in Donny. They are just some of our tens of thousands of septic sink estates blighting the country. Who wants to see Gloria Estefan picking up spiders with her teeth in the Aussie jungle when we can be even more entertained by witnessing Jedward getting a good shoeing down an alley that runs along side a Budgens? It's pure entertainment and a guaranteed ratings winner! There could even be an interactive element to the show, an innovative idea called, 'Phone the show to have a throw' where an audience member who has wasted their money by voting but is too dim to work it out is selected at random to join a poorly attired posse of delinquents, all with the communication skills of a recently deceased baboon to choose a celebrity to hurl randomly acquired objects off the street at. So for example, Dawn a 35 year old housewife with 11 kids from Blackpool can win through and be whisked through to the council estate 'set' by a souped up Subara with blacked out windows and an exhaust that someone has modified to make it sound f*cked. They then could grab at broken vodka bottles that are discarded on the street, used syringes, bricks, postboxes, or dead cats and lob them at Cain Dingle from Emmerdale. Any really strong men that win through could even throw a burnt out Citroen Saxo at Paul Daniels. Any direct hits causing injury to the celeb would result in the 'contestants' winning a prize. A minute trolley dash around the local Nisa. That's just how clever these TV producers are because they know that the local Nisa will have empty shelves as everything has already been lifted! Genius! I just hope that they can sign up Robbie Williams to go on the pilot episode then i'm off down me local Sports Direct for some stripey chav hoodies, socks that i can tuck my trackies into and a pair of knackered black pumps that make me look like a 4 year old with severe learning difficulties has dressed me. And all for a fiver!! Happy days! THEN i'll hotfoot it to Hull and make my way to the council estate and join in the party!! So Robbie, in the words of BET365's Ray Winstone or Hammond off of The Getaway for Playstation2......... 'AV SAM A DAT!!!!
I accept the idea is a little bit far fetched but if itv don't do it sky will.

[3generations]

tv sucks the only channel I ever seem to have on is Dave. I hate doom and gloom soaps, reality tv and the other bollocks! I can't believe what little there is to watch when there are so many channels. still least Dave's new red dwarf series is hitting the spot

[3generations]

the you view box connects to the internet so you can watch all the on demand internet channels so I player, 4od etc, hoping they'll connect it to lovefilm and sky player soon then least can watch the footie using it and my own choice of rubbish!

it also records and let's you rewind etc all the normal stuff.

[Glostergull]

tv sucks the only channel I ever seem to have on is Dave. I hate doom and gloom soaps, reality tv and the other bollocks! I can't believe what little there is to watch when there are so many channels. still least Dave's new red dwarf series is hitting the spot

Now you have gone and done it. We have enough trouble with SG as it is without you massaging his ego with watching his TV channel. Why for the love of Mike would anyone want to watch SG on TV.

[AustrianAndyGull]

Just watched Operation Iceberg on BBC2 with Chris Packham, now that is good telly.

[HeavenAndHele]

I'm a celebrity get me out of here is on again soon praise the lord. Why don't ITV run this idea for a programme. Get 10 celebrities to live on some of Britains roughest housing estates for a month ....
I accept the idea is a little bit far fetched but if itv don't do it sky will.

They could set it in Torquay and would only need to change one letter. It would of course be called "I'm a celebrity get me out of Hele". Eythangyo.

[AustrianAndyGull]

Is Hele really that bad Jase? Is it the village you drive through when you turn off the main Newton Abbott road at McDonalds and then go stright through towards Plainmoor? If so i've been through it a few times and i did notice a few burnt out litter bins one time and it stuck in my head ( i should never have bought those bloomin' matches ) but it doesn't look too bad. My mate who lives in Rotherham, his girlfriends sister used to live there i believe in one of the houses facing the McDonalds. I used to pronounce it HELLY!! Of course i'm a brainless northern oik though. :P

[usagullmichigan]

Is Hele really that bad Jase? Is it the village you drive through when you turn off the main Newton Abbott road at McDonalds and then go stright through towards Plainmoor? If so i've been through it a few times and i did notice a few burnt out litter bins one time and it stuck in my head ( i should never have bought those bloomin' matches ) but it doesn't look too bad. My mate who lives in Rotherham, his girlfriends sister used to live there i believe in one of the houses facing the McDonalds. I used to pronounce it HELLY!! Of course i'm a brainless northern oik though. :P

It's bad.

[HeavenAndHele]

It's got a bit better since the Royal Standard closed (the dingy pub on the main road) and they smartened some of the derelict shops up, but yes... not the nicest place in the world. And yes, it's the bit between the turn off (at the McDonalds/Currys junction, aka Lowes Bridge) and the double roundabouts on the way to Plainmoor. That said, I've been here 5 years and not had any trouble... famous last words?

[EmetEdadsBeard]

It's got a bit better since the Royal Standard closed (the dingy pub on the main road) and they smartened some of the derelict shops up, but yes... not the nicest place in the world. And yes, it's the bit between the turn off (at the McDonalds/Currys junction, aka Lowes Bridge) and the double roundabouts on the way to Plainmoor. That said, I've been here 5 years and not had any trouble... famous last words?

Ive been to Hele. There's areas of Donny, Barnsley, Sheffield and the Dearne area in the middle of them (Goldthorpe, Mexborough and Thurnscoe in particular) that, believe me, make Hele look like paradise!

[AustrianAndyGull]

I know Emet, Grimethorpe is a laugh, went there once to deliver some kitchen stuff to someones house when i worked for B&Q and the house was like something out of District 9! It even had f*cking aliens in there too! Anyway we went inside this blokes kitchen after safely negotiating his front garden, well i say garden, it was more like landfill and i took a look to my left and there were fence panels stacked up against his living room wall! The rest of the house was like on those hoarders programmes. Been all over these areas in my youth, Bolton on dearne, wath, thurnscoe, meccy, cunny, swinton, denaby ( got my head caved in there on the old market place - great days, great days ), Parsons Cross, Chapeltown. Donny is the best, it is easier to name the NICE places AND quicker.