what is anytime tv?
 

So what the heck is this Anytime TV?

I have read a couple of posts on here about how sky will automatically
record stuff for you. The sky website is not very forthcoming with the
important information.

Can anyone please give me a full rundown on exactly what it is?

what is anytime tv?
 

In article , Beck wrote:

So what the heck is this Anytime TV?

I have read a couple of posts on here about how sky will automatically
record stuff for you. The sky website is not very forthcoming with the
important information.

Can anyone please give me a full rundown on exactly what it is?

Latest model Sky+ boxes reserve half the hard disk space for Sky's use.
The proposition is that they will, overnight, download programmes they
think you might like to see: then they will be there for you to watch
without your having to set them in the EPG. Possibly they may make some
programmes available this way before they are available on the usual
channels.

This is all very well if your tastes happen to be the same as Sky's.

what is anytime tv?
 

Beck wrote:
So what the heck is this Anytime TV?

I have read a couple of posts on here about how sky will automatically
record stuff for you. The sky website is not very forthcoming with
the important information.

Can anyone please give me a full rundown on exactly what it is?

I believe it's Sky's hopeless attempt to offer a Video on Demand service.
However, instead of the user accessing the provider's servers, with access
to countless hours of stuff, Sky commandeer 50% of your Sky + hard drive and
download material to it overnight (although your own programmed recordings
take precedence).

You then access your 'VoD' service on your own drive. The programmes that
are downloaded are not in any way tailored to your viewing habits but are a
generic 'best of the week' and designed to get you watching more Sky TV,
rather than being viewer-led VoD.

Sky + and Sky HD customers will access the Anytime menu via the red button.

The scheme might have some small benefit in alerting viewers to series they
might otherwise have missed, but otherwise I can't see the point.

what is anytime tv?
 

In article , Roger Wilmut
writes
In article , Beck wrote:

So what the heck is this Anytime TV?

I have read a couple of posts on here about how sky will automatically
record stuff for you. The sky website is not very forthcoming with the
important information.

Can anyone please give me a full rundown on exactly what it is?

Latest model Sky+ boxes reserve half the hard disk space for Sky's use.
The proposition is that they will, overnight, download programmes they
think you might like to see: then they will be there for you to watch
without your having to set them in the EPG. Possibly they may make some
programmes available this way before they are available on the usual
channels.

This is all very well if your tastes happen to be the same as Sky's.

It's pretty much a poor Sky attempt at TiVo suggestions.

In some ways it can be quite useful, I have watched a couple of
programmes on it that I wouldn't have otherwise seen. It seems to show
Lost every week, immediately after it's first shown on Sky One/HD, with
no DOGS and no adverts, which is pretty good, but there doesn't seem to
be any way of knowing for sure if it's going to be on there every week,
either because Sky decide not to put it on there, or Anytime stops
working altogether, which it often does, so you have to record it anyway
which kind of defeats the object, and you can bet the week you don't
record it anyway, will be the week it's not on Anytime :-). They did
show the first couple of episodes of the new series of Weeds, but there
has been no sign of the rest of the series.

Anytime stuff expires after a certain time and deletes itself, although
you can record it to your own part of the disc. It would be better if
you could just mark it as to keep, and it stays on the Anytime portion
of the disc rather than using your space.

Some of the things it records do seem rather pointless, especially now
they've revamped the movie channels. On Saturday, I found it had the
film Inside Man on anytime, fine, nothing wrong with that, but isn't
that same film being shown every night this week on Movies Premiere, or
whatever it's called now, not to mention MP+1, so surely anyone that
might have wanted to watch it, but missed it first time, would have
ample opportunity to do so?

It's not a bad thing overall, but I'd still like the option to switch it
off and have the reserved space to record stuff that I know I want to
watch.
--
Sean Black

what is anytime tv?
 

"Roger Wilmut" wrote in message
. ..
In article , Beck wrote:

So what the heck is this Anytime TV?

I have read a couple of posts on here about how sky will automatically
record stuff for you. The sky website is not very forthcoming with the
important information.

Can anyone please give me a full rundown on exactly what it is?

Latest model Sky+ boxes reserve half the hard disk space for Sky's use.
The proposition is that they will, overnight, download programmes they
think you might like to see: then they will be there for you to watch
without your having to set them in the EPG. Possibly they may make some
programmes available this way before they are available on the usual
channels.

This is all very well if your tastes happen to be the same as Sky's.

So really what they are going to do is download movies from Sky Movies
channel to tempt me to upgrade to the full package?

what is anytime tv?
 

"DannyT" wrote in message
k...
Beck wrote:
So what the heck is this Anytime TV?

I have read a couple of posts on here about how sky will automatically
record stuff for you. The sky website is not very forthcoming with
the important information.

Can anyone please give me a full rundown on exactly what it is?

I believe it's Sky's hopeless attempt to offer a Video on Demand service.
However, instead of the user accessing the provider's servers, with access
to countless hours of stuff, Sky commandeer 50% of your Sky + hard drive
and download material to it overnight (although your own programmed
recordings take precedence).

You then access your 'VoD' service on your own drive. The programmes that
are downloaded are not in any way tailored to your viewing habits but are
a generic 'best of the week' and designed to get you watching more Sky TV,
rather than being viewer-led VoD.

Sky + and Sky HD customers will access the Anytime menu via the red
button.

The scheme might have some small benefit in alerting viewers to series
they might otherwise have missed, but otherwise I can't see the point.

Thanks.
Its a good idea in theory, but without any way of customising it, it might
become a pain in the arse.
It would be nice to say pick categories like drama and documentaries only
and let it pick what I want. I don't particularly want to be having to
delete an entire catalogue of some rubbish like Dr Who or football
highlights.

what is anytime tv?
 

"Roger Wilmut" wrote in message
. ..
In article , Beck wrote:

So what the heck is this Anytime TV?

I have read a couple of posts on here about how sky will automatically
record stuff for you. The sky website is not very forthcoming with the
important information.

Can anyone please give me a full rundown on exactly what it is?

Latest model Sky+ boxes reserve half the hard disk space for Sky's use.
The proposition is that they will, overnight, download programmes they
think you might like to see: then they will be there for you to watch
without your having to set them in the EPG. Possibly they may make some
programmes available this way before they are available on the usual
channels.

This is all very well if your tastes happen to be the same as Sky's.

First recording - On the Waterfront (Marlon Brando). My mum might like
that. lol

what is anytime tv?
 

"Sean Black" wrote in message
...
In article , Roger Wilmut
writes
In article , Beck wrote:

So what the heck is this Anytime TV?

I have read a couple of posts on here about how sky will automatically
record stuff for you. The sky website is not very forthcoming with the
important information.

Can anyone please give me a full rundown on exactly what it is?

Latest model Sky+ boxes reserve half the hard disk space for Sky's use.
The proposition is that they will, overnight, download programmes they
think you might like to see: then they will be there for you to watch
without your having to set them in the EPG. Possibly they may make some
programmes available this way before they are available on the usual
channels.

This is all very well if your tastes happen to be the same as Sky's.

It's pretty much a poor Sky attempt at TiVo suggestions.

In some ways it can be quite useful, I have watched a couple of programmes
on it that I wouldn't have otherwise seen. It seems to show Lost every
week, immediately after it's first shown on Sky One/HD, with no DOGS and
no adverts, which is pretty good, but there doesn't seem to be any way of
knowing for sure if it's going to be on there every week, either because
Sky decide not to put it on there, or Anytime stops working altogether,
which it often does, so you have to record it anyway which kind of defeats
the object, and you can bet the week you don't record it anyway, will be
the week it's not on Anytime :-). They did show the first couple of
episodes of the new series of Weeds, but there has been no sign of the
rest of the series.

Anytime stuff expires after a certain time and deletes itself, although
you can record it to your own part of the disc. It would be better if you
could just mark it as to keep, and it stays on the Anytime portion of the
disc rather than using your space.

Some of the things it records do seem rather pointless, especially now
they've revamped the movie channels. On Saturday, I found it had the film
Inside Man on anytime, fine, nothing wrong with that, but isn't that same
film being shown every night this week on Movies Premiere, or whatever
it's called now, not to mention MP+1, so surely anyone that might have
wanted to watch it, but missed it first time, would have ample opportunity
to do so?

It's not a bad thing overall, but I'd still like the option to switch it
off and have the reserved space to record stuff that I know I want to
watch.

HI Sean

What happens if I am recording two things, or recording one and timer for
another soon after and the anytime wants to download a programme. Will this
affect my simultaneous recordings?

what is anytime tv?
 

In article , Beck writes

"Sean Black" wrote in message
...
In article , Roger
Wilmut writes
In article , Beck wrote:

So what the heck is this Anytime TV?

I have read a couple of posts on here about how sky will automatically
record stuff for you. The sky website is not very forthcoming with the
important information.

Can anyone please give me a full rundown on exactly what it is?

Latest model Sky+ boxes reserve half the hard disk space for Sky's use.
The proposition is that they will, overnight, download programmes they
think you might like to see: then they will be there for you to watch
without your having to set them in the EPG. Possibly they may make some
programmes available this way before they are available on the usual
channels.

This is all very well if your tastes happen to be the same as Sky's.

It's pretty much a poor Sky attempt at TiVo suggestions.

In some ways it can be quite useful, I have watched a couple of
programmes on it that I wouldn't have otherwise seen. It seems to
show Lost every week, immediately after it's first shown on Sky
One/HD, with no DOGS and no adverts, which is pretty good, but there
doesn't seem to be any way of knowing for sure if it's going to be on
there every week, either because Sky decide not to put it on there,
or Anytime stops working altogether, which it often does, so you have
anyway which kind of defeats the object, and you can bet the week you
don't record it anyway, will be the week it's not on Anytime :-).
They did show the first couple of episodes of the new series of
Weeds, but there has been no sign of the rest of the series.

Anytime stuff expires after a certain time and deletes itself,
although you can record it to your own part of the disc. It would be
better if you could just mark it as to keep, and it stays on the
Anytime portion of the disc rather than using your space.

Some of the things it records do seem rather pointless, especially
now they've revamped the movie channels. On Saturday, I found it had
the film Inside Man on anytime, fine, nothing wrong with that, but
isn't that same film being shown every night this week on Movies
Premiere, or whatever it's called now, not to mention MP+1, so surely
anyone that might have wanted to watch it, but missed it first time,
ample opportunity to do so?

It's not a bad thing overall, but I'd still like the option to switch
it off and have the reserved space to record stuff that I know I want
to watch.

HI Sean

What happens if I am recording two things, or recording one and timer
for another soon after and the anytime wants to download a programme.
Will this affect my simultaneous recordings?

At a guess, I'd say Anytime won't do anything if you're recording
something on the box yourself. I was initially under the impression that
it only downloaded stuff in the middle of the night, when the box was
idle, but some Anytime stuff seems to appear during the day.

I've had Anytime stop working altogether and delete a programme that I
supposedly "recorded" onto my portion of the disc (despite having plenty
of free space), but it's not so far, affected any of my own recordings.
--
Sean Black

what is anytime tv?
 

"Beck" wrote in message
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"Roger Wilmut" wrote in message
. ..
In article , Beck wrote:

So what the heck is this Anytime TV?

I have read a couple of posts on here about how sky will automatically
record stuff for you. The sky website is not very forthcoming with the
important information.

Can anyone please give me a full rundown on exactly what it is?

Latest model Sky+ boxes reserve half the hard disk space for Sky's use.
The proposition is that they will, overnight, download programmes they
think you might like to see: then they will be there for you to watch
without your having to set them in the EPG. Possibly they may make some
programmes available this way before they are available on the usual
channels.

This is all very well if your tastes happen to be the same as Sky's.

So really what they are going to do is download movies from Sky Movies
channel to tempt me to upgrade to the full package?

yes, but also base channels that you might not watch very often such as
History, Arts, Discovery, etc.