Finally out of the box

"After years in the works, YouView has finally launched its web-connected set-top box service. But is it too little, too late? Andrew McDonald reports.

YouView’s launch this week brings to an end a tortuous development and long delays since the initiative was unveiled as Project Canvas in 2008.

But despite YouView chairman Lord Sugar’s insistence that the launch was a “great moment in British TV” and the service offers a “whole new way of experiencing TV,” the market has changed dramatically in the intervening years, with YouView no longer the groundbreaking proposition that it once promised to be..."

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