Now Ultra boost

[lufc87]

I know this has been asked many times before but there doesn’t seem to have been anything new posted in a few months. Is there any news on the Ultra boost being available?

I’ve noticed the option actually now shows if I login to Now but obviously it doesn’t let me purchase.

[Midnight_Voice]

@hooba 

I got lost somewhere, where you were asking me a question that would require sight of the YouView source code to answer, which of course I don’t have. But I can’t find the question again 😢

Just a bit more insight into these things though - the Now app will be communicating with the YouView box through an API, Applications Programme Interface (and possibly several), and that is the only sight of the underlying YouView software and firmware it gets. So the box may support UHD and Atmos and other goodies, but that’s not enough; these features need to be exposed to Now via that API, and if they are not, then as far as Now is concerned, the Box might just as well not have these things.

So YouView have to construct a new API, with these functions and methods exposed, so that Now can use them, and use them according to dictates that Now specify.

Shouldn't be overly complicated, and there are plenty of precedents set in the APIs for apps that do support UHD and Atmos - UHD as far back as the T4000, even if HDR and Atmos only came with the Box Pro.

But it’s not enough just to point to these features being on the Box; Now can’t reach out and use them just because they are there, it needs YouView to expose them (as we say) in an API that Now can use.

Happy to agree the time it’s taking is not ideal 😛