Virgin EPG auto-loads by default on terrestrial digital
 

Hmm, I wonder if this has affected Portsets box with talking program guide?
I cannot afford one myself, best part of 700 quid, but it does have a spoken
interface and menus and epg as well as recorder etc built in.

Brian

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"FCS" wrote in message
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On Feb 3, 7:13 pm, Mark Carver wrote:
FCS wrote:
Yes, that's right, Virgin have taken over the EPG
for terrestrial digital television in some parts of the
country.

No they haven't. Are you mixing up DTT (aka Freeview, aka DVB-T) with
Virgin
Media cable TV (aka DVB-C) ?

Yes, they bloody have. Round here they have anyway.

I have a caravan style UHF aerial plugged into the
back of the box which is SCART-ed up to a VCR and
run out to an old-stlye tube television. There is
no cable in.

Anyway, it gets worse. The channels I had deleted
prior to the forced re-scan, despite showing up as
available from the transmitter, are not in evidence
at all even after two rescans.

The majority are, or rather were, paid for channels,
like Setanta and UKTV Gold, but there's no reason
they should stay paid-for if, say, the broadcaster
goes belly-up.

No, Virgin have tried to be a bunch of cocky clever
*******s and have basically ****ed up the EPROM in
my box irretrievably so far as I can make out.

I will be taking this up with OFCOM.

It's a twenty-odd quid terrestrial digital receiver
box bought from a chain supermarket Dec 2005, I have
installed the whole lot myself, so yes, I am pretty
****ing sure I haven't confused it with a cable system
that the property owner or my parents or whoever has
installed.

When I pull the aerial out I don't get any signal at
all. Coo. Looks like it's terrestrial digital freeview.

I had a feeling they'd be introducing it piecemeal,
hence the "DON'T ****ING DOWLOAD THIS SO-CALLED UPGRADE!!!!!"
posts to the relevant groups.

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Virgin EPG auto-loads by default on terrestrial digital
 

I got the impression from the comments that the epg had been modified to
allow loads of adverts to no doubt coin in the money. I'm surprised we don't
have adverts coming out of the gas, electric and water outlets by now as
well.

Brian

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"Mark Carver" wrote in message
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FCS wrote:

[snip load of rambling nonsense]

Let's go back to square one for a moment. Virgin do not, and never have,
managed the software upgrades, nor the EPG data on UK DTT.

Where did you get the idea from that they have ?

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Virgin EPG auto-loads by default on terrestrial digital
 

Mike Henry wrote:

This could be easily nipped in the bud with the make and model number of
the DTT STB (if it is in reality a DTT box that he has), and checked
against the DTG upgrade schedules page.

My son's got Virgin "Digital TV". In reality a little DTT box of
unremarked manufacture. He got it with the Virgin "bundle" - Broadband
via BT, and Digital TV via this DTT STB. There is no Cable marching
past his place!

We were up there Sun - Tues (Sheffield - and Belmont Tx)and there's no
new ad infested EPG, nor did he report any upgrade offered.

Richard