A-Z Listings...

....what is the point of these? Am I missing something? :-)

90% of what I try to find is never on there! All I ever seem to see are
numerous listings for news programmes and kids programmes that are on the
same time every day. I end up having to manually trawl through the EPG to
find out when the programmes tonight are on.

Tonight for example I want to watch/tape 3 programmes at 10pm - which I know
that I can't. So I wanted to see if any are repeated at another time during
the week. Top Gear was on the listings - but only the programme on tonight.
Shameless is on E4, but only the next episode not a repeat of the first
one - fair enough :-) But Nip and Tuck, which I know is repeated on Sky One
Mix on Friday - is also only showing for tonight. Knowing this is wrong I'm
faced with trawling through to see if in fact Top Gear and/or Shameless are
on at other times - but I'm far too lazy and have settled for watching Top
Gear on terrestial and pouring another drink instead :-)

Does anyone use these at all?

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Sand

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"Sand" wrote in message
...
...what is the point of these? Am I missing something? :-)

90% of what I try to find is never on there! All I ever seem to see are
numerous listings for news programmes and kids programmes that are on the
same time every day. I end up having to manually trawl through the EPG to
find out when the programmes tonight are on.

Tonight for example I want to watch/tape 3 programmes at 10pm - which I
know
that I can't. So I wanted to see if any are repeated at another time
during
the week. Top Gear was on the listings - but only the programme on
tonight.
Shameless is on E4, but only the next episode not a repeat of the first
one - fair enough :-) But Nip and Tuck, which I know is repeated on Sky
One
Mix on Friday - is also only showing for tonight. Knowing this is wrong
I'm
faced with trawling through to see if in fact Top Gear and/or Shameless
are
on at other times - but I'm far too lazy and have settled for watching Top
Gear on terrestial and pouring another drink instead :-)

Does anyone use these at all?

I don't even use the EPG, the search and scan banner, yes, but the EPG -
nope. Use Digiguide www.digiguide.com, best £7 you'll spend this year.

--
Michael Smith

In uk.media.tv.sky on Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Sand wrote :

Tonight for example I want to watch/tape 3 programmes at 10pm - which I know
that I can't. So I wanted to see if any are repeated at another time during
the week. Top Gear was on the listings - but only the programme on tonight.
Shameless is on E4, but only the next episode not a repeat of the first
one - fair enough :-) But Nip and Tuck, which I know is repeated on Sky One
Mix on Friday - is also only showing for tonight. Knowing this is wrong I'm
faced with trawling through to see if in fact Top Gear and/or Shameless are
on at other times - but I'm far too lazy and have settled for watching Top
Gear on terrestial and pouring another drink instead :-)

Does anyone use these at all?

I virtually never use them - far too many screens to flick through, and
that's for just 24 hours programs.
--
Paul 'US Sitcom Fan' Hyett

Michael Smith wrote:
|| "Sand" wrote in message
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||| ...what is the point of these? Am I missing something? :-)
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A2Z listings. waste of time. Never used them.

...what is the point of these? Am I missing something? :-)

[snip]

Does anyone use these at all?

The A-Z listings only cover the next 24 hours.

Simon Kempster

I do use the A-Z listings to see if I want my Sky+ box to record any
movies.
It could really do with a page up/page down facility though - takes
ages to trawl through them. But still quicker than going through the
EPG for 7 days.

Jon

"^^artnada^^" wrote in message ...
Michael Smith wrote:
|| "Sand" wrote in message
|| ...
||| ...what is the point of these? Am I missing something? :-)
snip

A2Z listings. waste of time. Never used them.

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 21:09:48 +0000 (UTC), "Sand"
wrote:

Tonight for example I want to watch/tape 3 programmes at 10pm - which I know
that I can't. So I wanted to see if any are repeated at another time during
the week.

A-Z only goes about 24 hours ahead as far as I remember. (Otherwise
you'd have hundreds of pages of the same thing to scroll through.)

On 14 Jan 2004 05:13:07 -0800, (Jon Taylor) wrote:

I do use the A-Z listings to see if I want my Sky+ box to record any
movies.

It could really do with a page up/page down facility though

I thought that too.. but it has one - use the channel + and - buttons
to go up or down a page at a time.

"Jon Taylor" wrote in message
m...
I do use the A-Z listings to see if I want my Sky+ box to record any
movies.
It could really do with a page up/page down facility though - takes
ages to trawl through them. But still quicker than going through the
EPG for 7 days.

green button/red button = down/up on A-Z listings