7 Day Program Guide Roll Out....
 

Having an old OnDigi box I'm looking to upgrade it shortly to a combined
DTT/PVR box which will support the 7/8 day programme guide.

Can someone advise when the guide is to be rolled out nationally (I'm on
Emley Moor) - and also which are the best PVRs around at the moment
which support the 7 day guide??

"Steve O" wrote in message
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Having an old OnDigi box I'm looking to upgrade it shortly to a combined
DTT/PVR box which will support the 7/8 day programme guide.

Can someone advise when the guide is to be rolled out nationally (I'm on
Emley Moor) - and also which are the best PVRs around at the moment
which support the 7 day guide??

The EPG was rolled out nationally back in July!

"Steve O" wrote in message
...


(I'm on
Emley Moor) - and also which are the best PVRs around at the moment
which support the 7 day guide??


I'm on Emley and several of my stations do not even get now and next on my
Freeview boxes.

Thin there are only a handfull of existing Freeview boxes that will up grade
to this new 7 day EPG.

My Philips 1500 for example, the maker is refusing to upgrade these boxes.

My advise is unless you see the one you are to buy giving the 7 day EPG in
the shop DO NOT buy one.
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Regards,
David

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On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 08:34:30 GMT, "David" wrote:

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| "Steve O" wrote in message
| ...
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| (I'm on
| Emley Moor) - and also which are the best PVRs around at the moment
| which support the 7 day guide??
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| I'm on Emley and several of my stations do not even get now and next on my
| Freeview boxes.
|
| Thin there are only a handfull of existing Freeview boxes that will up grade
| to this new 7 day EPG.
|
| My Philips 1500 for example, the maker is refusing to upgrade these boxes.
|
| My advise is unless you see the one you are to buy giving the 7 day EPG in
| the shop DO NOT buy one.

Agreed.

I am also on Emley Moor.
The 7 day EPG works fine on Nebula DigiTV, PCI card, but on none of my
other three freeview boxes

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"Steve O" wrote in message
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Having an old OnDigi box I'm looking to upgrade it shortly to a combined
DTT/PVR box which will support the 7/8 day programme guide.

Can someone advise when the guide is to be rolled out nationally (I'm on
Emley Moor) - and also which are the best PVRs around at the moment
which support the 7 day guide??

Humax PVR8000T supports the EPG, though there may still be some bugs with
it - some channels don't go past 3 days without a little persuasion.

I think some Freeview PVRs (Fusion?) may use their own EPG, not the
"standard" one.




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In article , John writes

Humax PVR8000T supports the EPG, though there may still be some bugs with
it - some channels don't go past 3 days without a little persuasion.

What form does this "persuasion" take?

Wafting the product guarantee in front of it...
a sharp talking to...
taking down the back of the bike sheds for a damned good kicking...
or something more subtle?

I ask because some of the channels on my Humax F2FoxT also only update a
few days ahead. In fact, I don't think I have ever seen all 7 days of
the EPG filled for all available channels.

So how do you persuade your Humax to show more?
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David wrote:

My Philips 1500 for example, the maker is refusing to upgrade these boxes.

Hmm they are actually refusing to do it now? :( I heard they were just
taking ages to get it out the door. Damn :( I specifically looked at
specs for EPG when I got it too :(

"Matt Dibb" wrote in message
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David wrote:

My Philips 1500 for example, the maker is refusing to upgrade these
boxes.

Hmm they are actually refusing to do it now? :( I heard they were just
taking ages to get it out the door. Damn :( I specifically looked at
specs for EPG when I got it too :(

They deny thier specs. say it is upgradeable to 7 day EPG.
They definately have told me several times there will be no update to 7 day
EPG.
If you can prove you have a spec. that says they can upgrade please help us
all by going to Trading Standards.
--
Regards,
David

Please reply to News Group.

I ask because some of the channels on my Humax F2FoxT also only update a
few days ahead. In fact, I don't think I have ever seen all 7 days of the
EPG filled for all available channels.

So how do you persuade your Humax to show more?
--

I believe the FoxT is still waiting for an OTA update for the correct
functioning of 7 day epg... until then.....

wanders of to check the 8000T epg :-)

Steve

David wrote:

They deny thier specs. say it is upgradeable to 7 day EPG.
They definately have told me several times there will be no update to 7 day
EPG.
If you can prove you have a spec. that says they can upgrade please help us
all by going to Trading Standards.

It says this on their website. To me that means it has a 7 day program
guide...

" User interface : 7 day electronic program guide, Automatic program
list update, Multiple subtitles supported, Now & next ESG, On screen
display on TV, Software upgrade over the air, TV and radio mode"

http://www.consumer.philips.com/cons...HQFH KFSESI5P

or

http://tinyurl.com/3q7ly

if that link is broken.