Sky HD boxes to get upgraded EPG in 2008
 

On Jan 17, 8:06*am, "the dog from that film you saw"
wrote:
"Gaz" wrote in message

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No, but I am sure you feel all warm and fuzzy inside saying it. The
signing of shows is extremely irritating, and only done because OfCom
mandate it. Nothing wrong with having signing as an interactive option,
and then we all wont have to put up with it.

even the music channels are forced to do it.
just the other night i saw such a thing - superimposed over a pop video was
a fat woman wearing gaudy clothing.
not only was she signing to the song, she was doing some kind of bizarre
convulsive dance to go with it!

--
Gareth.

That fly... is your magic wand.http://www.last.fm/user/dsbmusic/

Geri Halliwell's found work?

Sky HD boxes to get upgraded EPG in 2008
 

"Malcolm H" wrote in message
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No mention of increased functionality. I have recently moved to skyhd.
Sky+ and the epg are terrible. I use my tivo to schedule all the shows,
and use it as i did before. Whenever a hd channel is recorded i have a
record signal sent to the skyhd box to make sure it is recorded in hd.
Slightly clumsy, but sky+ functionality is laughable.

Gaz

Absolute bullsh*t

Of course it is. I have both systems, why would i lie? Now with HD, i would
love to be able to dump tivo, but sky+ makes me blush, how basic and
unsophisticated it is.

Gaz

Sky HD boxes to get upgraded EPG in 2008
 

In article , Gaz
writes

"Malcolm H" wrote in message
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No mention of increased functionality. I have recently moved to skyhd.
Sky+ and the epg are terrible. I use my tivo to schedule all the shows,
and use it as i did before. Whenever a hd channel is recorded i have a
record signal sent to the skyhd box to make sure it is recorded in hd.
Slightly clumsy, but sky+ functionality is laughable.

Gaz

Absolute bullsh*t

Of course it is. I have both systems, why would i lie? Now with HD, i would
love to be able to dump tivo, but sky+ makes me blush, how basic and
unsophisticated it is.

Gaz


Same here. My original intention was to replace my TiVo with Sky HD, but
I just couldn't bring myself to be without the TiVo functionality. I
only watch/record HD stuff on my Sky HD or if there's a non-repeated
clash that TiVo can't cope with.

Malcolm H, I presume you've never used a TiVo? Had I not, and only had
experience of Sky+, I'd probably go along with the people that think
it's the best thing since sliced bread, unfortunately I didn't so, even
after all these years I still find the Sky+ software woefully
inadequate.
--
Sean Black

Sky HD boxes to get upgraded EPG in 2008
 

"Sean Black" wrote in message
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In article , Gaz
writes

"Malcolm H" wrote in message
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No mention of increased functionality. I have recently moved to skyhd.
Sky+ and the epg are terrible. I use my tivo to schedule all the shows,
and use it as i did before. Whenever a hd channel is recorded i have a
record signal sent to the skyhd box to make sure it is recorded in hd.
Slightly clumsy, but sky+ functionality is laughable.

Gaz

Absolute bullsh*t

Of course it is. I have both systems, why would i lie? Now with HD, i
would
love to be able to dump tivo, but sky+ makes me blush, how basic and
unsophisticated it is.

Gaz


Same here. My original intention was to replace my TiVo with Sky HD, but I
just couldn't bring myself to be without the TiVo functionality. I only
watch/record HD stuff on my Sky HD or if there's a non-repeated clash that
TiVo can't cope with.

Malcolm H, I presume you've never used a TiVo? Had I not, and only had
experience of Sky+, I'd probably go along with the people that think it's
the best thing since sliced bread, unfortunately I didn't so, even after
all these years I still find the Sky+ software woefully inadequate.
--
Sean Black

OK I confess. I have never used a TiVo - but I do find that the Sky+
functionality works well and reliably (most of the time). It does just
about everything that I would expect - but no doubt it could be further
improved!
I would like:
Smaller print to get more on a page
A 'Back' facility to view the previously selected channel
Programme information available without having to select the actual channel
Less cumbersome 'Search' funtionality

Sky HD boxes to get upgraded EPG in 2008
 

"Sean Black" wrote in message
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In article , Gaz
writes

"Malcolm H" wrote in message
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No mention of increased functionality. I have recently moved to skyhd.
Sky+ and the epg are terrible. I use my tivo to schedule all the shows,
and use it as i did before. Whenever a hd channel is recorded i have a
record signal sent to the skyhd box to make sure it is recorded in hd.
Slightly clumsy, but sky+ functionality is laughable.

Gaz

Absolute bullsh*t

Of course it is. I have both systems, why would i lie? Now with HD, i
would
love to be able to dump tivo, but sky+ makes me blush, how basic and
unsophisticated it is.

Gaz


Same here. My original intention was to replace my TiVo with Sky HD, but I
just couldn't bring myself to be without the TiVo functionality. I only
watch/record HD stuff on my Sky HD or if there's a non-repeated clash that
TiVo can't cope with.

Get yourself the modified irblast software for tivo it will automatically
send a record code to the hd box for you when a hd is on.....

So far it is reliable.. I have been getting my fill of HD movies...

Gaz

Sky HD boxes to get upgraded EPG in 2008
 

In message , Gaz
writes

"Sean Black" wrote in message
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In article , Gaz
writes

"Malcolm H" wrote in message
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No mention of increased functionality. I have recently moved to skyhd.
Sky+ and the epg are terrible. I use my tivo to schedule all the shows,
and use it as i did before. Whenever a hd channel is recorded i have a
record signal sent to the skyhd box to make sure it is recorded in hd.
Slightly clumsy, but sky+ functionality is laughable.

Gaz

Absolute bullsh*t

Of course it is. I have both systems, why would i lie? Now with HD, i
would
love to be able to dump tivo, but sky+ makes me blush, how basic and
unsophisticated it is.

Gaz


Same here. My original intention was to replace my TiVo with Sky HD, but I
just couldn't bring myself to be without the TiVo functionality. I only
watch/record HD stuff on my Sky HD or if there's a non-repeated clash that
TiVo can't cope with.

Get yourself the modified irblast software for tivo it will automatically
send a record code to the hd box for you when a hd is on.....

So far it is reliable.. I have been getting my fill of HD movies...

Cheers, I'll look into that.
--
Sean Black

Sky HD boxes to get upgraded EPG in 2008
 

"Sean Black" wrote in message
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In message , Gaz
writes

"Sean Black" wrote in message
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In article , Gaz
writes

"Malcolm H" wrote in message
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No mention of increased functionality. I have recently moved to
skyhd.
Sky+ and the epg are terrible. I use my tivo to schedule all the
shows,
and use it as i did before. Whenever a hd channel is recorded i have
a
record signal sent to the skyhd box to make sure it is recorded in
hd.
Slightly clumsy, but sky+ functionality is laughable.

Gaz

Absolute bullsh*t

Of course it is. I have both systems, why would i lie? Now with HD, i
would
love to be able to dump tivo, but sky+ makes me blush, how basic and
unsophisticated it is.

Gaz


Same here. My original intention was to replace my TiVo with Sky HD, but
I
just couldn't bring myself to be without the TiVo functionality. I only
watch/record HD stuff on my Sky HD or if there's a non-repeated clash
that
TiVo can't cope with.

Get yourself the modified irblast software for tivo it will automatically
send a record code to the hd box for you when a hd is on.....

So far it is reliable.. I have been getting my fill of HD movies...

Cheers, I'll look into that.
--
Sean Black

I agree completely. For ease of use the Tivo interface leaves Sky+ behind (I
have both).

Why Sky+ can't take some pointers (without infringing copyright) from the
Tivo interface is beyond me.

It's not the technology (my Tivo is over six years old) it's the skill of
the EPG designer and programmer.

The design appears to have been done by a six year old.

Sky HD boxes to get upgraded EPG in 2008
 

On 16 Jan, 23:51, "Gaz" wrote:
"T U R D S" wrote in . uk...





"Gaz" wrote in message
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Brian Gaff wrote:
It would be nice if they would build on the groundbreaking work they
did for the blind viewer with audio description available before
anyone else, and make the menus talk so we can actually use them.

Brian

And, maybe for us who do not need flippy flappy woman, to have the option
to remove them from the channel stream.

Gaz

Ignorant prick.

No, but I am sure you feel all warm and fuzzy inside saying it. The signing
of shows is extremely irritating, and only done because OfCom mandate it.
Nothing wrong with having signing as an interactive option, and then we all
wont have to put up with it.

Damn right. Note how "TURDS" has barely posted anything else but that
nonsense reply.

Broadcasters keep saying they can't make it optional, but they can
certainly simulcast the alternative version on 'press red', so if it's
primetime then deaf people can have a signed version and if it's
middle of the night then vice versa, but no they don't.

What's most telling is when I've read from deaf people on here in the
past who've said that they find the signing just gets in the way and
that they use the subtitles anyway.

Sky HD boxes to get upgraded EPG in 2008
 

On 19 Jan, 09:15, "mikes" wrote:
"Sean Black" wrote in message

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In message , Gaz
writes

"Sean Black" wrote in message
...
In article , Gaz
writes

"Malcolm H" wrote in message
...

No mention of increased functionality. I have recently moved to
skyhd.
Sky+ and the epg are terrible. I use my tivo to schedule all the
shows,
and use it as i did before. Whenever a hd channel is recorded i have
a
record signal sent to the skyhd box to make sure it is recorded in
hd.
Slightly clumsy, but sky+ functionality is laughable.

Gaz

Absolute bullsh*t

Of course it is. I have both systems, why would i lie? Now with HD, i
would
love to be able to dump tivo, but sky+ makes me blush, how basic and
unsophisticated it is.

Gaz

Same here. My original intention was to replace my TiVo with Sky HD, but
I
just couldn't bring myself to be without the TiVo functionality. I only
watch/record HD stuff on my Sky HD or if there's a non-repeated clash
that
TiVo can't cope with.

Get yourself the modified irblast software for tivo it will automatically
send a record code to the hd box for you when a hd is on.....

So far it is reliable.. I have been getting my fill of HD movies...

Cheers, I'll look into that.
--
Sean Black

I agree completely. For ease of use the Tivo interface leaves Sky+ behind (I
have both).

Why Sky+ can't take some pointers (without infringing copyright) from the
Tivo interface is beyond me.

It's not the technology (my Tivo is over six years old) it's the skill of
the EPG designer and programmer.

The design appears to have been done by a six year old.

When I saw the title of this thread, I thought why restrict the new
EPG only to the Sky HD boxes and not all Sky boxes? And then I
remembered - to make the cheaper alternative less palatable. They
degraded the Sky analogue signal on purpose prior to the switchover to
hasten its demise.

Sky HD boxes to get upgraded EPG in 2008
 

Get yourself the modified irblast software for tivo it will
automatically
send a record code to the hd box for you when a hd is on.....


Can you provide a link to this software? Will it work on Series 1 UK TIvos?.

Thanks.