[Technologist]

OK, I've defended some things as just being the cost of it being in the early stages but ridiculous that to receive channels via Freeview you have to turn off the Internet and hence all smart TV apps……..

That’s not what the article says ……
You only get the streamed version which is HD if the broadcast has a flag set …..
if you unplug the internet you get the SD broadcast version.
So at start only BBC PSB , and presumably all of itv ch and 5 5 Chanel’s will be streamed ,
And the sky and BBC/UKTV etc will come in board later

They've somehow managed to make the EPG even messier than Freeview too, and baffling to list every BBC Local Radio station rather than point people to BBC sounds.

The idea is that everything is available on the one EPG …is t any stranger than all BBC tv regions which there are now in DSAT.