YouView 'on track for summer launch'

Dido Harding, the chief executive of TalkTalk, has said the much delayed box, backed by the telecoms company along with BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel Five, BT and Aqiva, would definitely launch by September this year.

The self-styled ‘next generation of Freeview’, which was originally meant to launch in 2010, and has cost millions to develop, has been blighted by technical issues from the start.

YouView, which was previously known as Project Canvas, will offer a programme guide that goes backwards, offering seven day catch up via web TV services such as ITV Player, as well as forwards. It aims to build upon Freeview's success and offer a subscription-free TV service offering more choice via extra content made available via the web. It will also offer a TV app store. At least six million pounds of taxpayers’ money has been spent on the project by BBC to date.

According to Harding, YouView will definitely launch within quarter two of this financial year – which means it could be on shop shelves anytime between July to September.

Harding told The Telegraph that she was having her own test box set up in her home “next week”.

from The Telegraph

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Looks interesting - but this is the Telegraph, and YV has been delayed many times already, and it has had a very turbulent history...

Let's hope that when we finally get it it's an iPlayer and not a Sinclair C5...