8 Day EPG Test in London TV region

In article , Andrew
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On Wed, 5 May 2004 17:32:31 +0100, "Nick"
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Is this working for anyone yet? My Humax PVR8000T is still running in
the usual "Now and if you are lucky Next" mode.

Its working on my Pace Twin

Hmmm, that isn't boding well for my Humax then :-(

Well its "almost" working on my Humax F2-Fox T.

Almost, in that it doesn't show a guide for all of the next 8 days, but
its a lot more than just the now and next that was there yesterday.

BBC channels seem to be 2 and a half hays in the future.
Other channels range from half a day to 1 and a half days in the future.

Perhaps it will improve as more data is uploaded, perhaps it won't and
they want you to buy a TV Guide. ;-)
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Is this working for anyone yet? My Humax PVR8000T is still running in
the usual "Now and if you are lucky Next" mode.

Well the EPG is working after a fashion on my fairly new (and excellent)
Pace Twin.
I only managed to step forward as far as tomorrow evening's programs (which
seemed to take a long time) at which point the box froze solid and needed
the mains switch treatment. Even so 24 hours of programs will be good.

Mike

In message , on Wed, 5 May 2004,
Kennedy McEwen writes

Well its "almost" working on my Humax F2-Fox T.

Almost, in that it doesn't show a guide for all of the next 8 days, but
its a lot more than just the now and next that was there yesterday.

BBC channels seem to be 2 and a half hays in the future.
Other channels range from half a day to 1 and a half days in the future.

Working in a similar fashion on my PVR8000T and on my KD32DX150, so
possibly that's all there is to be shown at the moment.

Phil

On Wed, 5 May 2004 21:53:27 +0100, Philip Stokes
wrote:

Working in a similar fashion on my PVR8000T and on my KD32DX150, so
possibly that's all there is to be shown at the moment.

Which software version is your PVR8000T running?
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Is this working for anyone yet? My Humax PVR8000T is still running in
the usual "Now and if you are lucky Next" mode.

I've got this running on a Nebula DigiTV PCI card. Here's a sample,
all from today 6/5/2004.

UKTV History - Full to 12/05
BBC1 - Full to 12/05
BBC3 - Full to 12/05
BBC4 - Full to 12/05
BBC Parliament - Full to 12/05
ITV1 - Full to 12/05
Channel 4 - Full to 12/05
Five - All of today, up to 5:35am 7/05
ftn - Full to 12/05

There may very well be data for further in to the future, but I don't
think that the DigiTV stores it.

I'd contend that it's little better than useless on the Twin as it'd
generally be quicker to program manually than to wait for the EPG to
populate and then to navigate to the program - especially if it's more
than a few hours away.

While the multi-channel timeline approach they've taken sounds great,
seeing everything in context, I'm now thinking they should have taken
a more teletext kind of approach. e.g., show just one channel at a
time, using Ch+/- to move to the previous/next channel, with L/R or a
couple of colours to act as prev/next screenfull and another couple of
colours to skip to prev/next day. In a really cool world they could
have a button to toggle such a view between titles only and titles &
descriptions.

I know we've been after this for ages and shouldn't complain when it
comes, but I can't see myself using it on the Twin in its current form
for anything other than recordings later on in the same evening.

Do any of the other boxes/IDTVs present the info in a more manageable
way?

In message , on Wed, 5 May
2004, Andrew writes
On Wed, 5 May 2004 21:53:27 +0100, Philip Stokes
wrote:

Working in a similar fashion on my PVR8000T and on my KD32DX150, so
possibly that's all there is to be shown at the moment.

Which software version is your PVR8000T running?

PGTTF 1.00.08

On Thu, 6 May 2004 16:16:06 +0100, Philip Stokes
wrote:

Working in a similar fashion on my PVR8000T and on my KD32DX150, so
possibly that's all there is to be shown at the moment.

Which software version is your PVR8000T running?

PGTTF 1.00.08

Strange, yours isn't running the current version, mine is 1.00.09.
Mind you, if your EPG is working, don't upgrade it :-)
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On Thu, 6 May 2004 18:07:07 +0100,
lid (Alan Pemberton) wrote:


I've had PDC vcrs since 1996 and used PDC exclusively for recordings on
all analogue channels. I rarely had any missed recordings, and the BBC's
service was particularly good as it turned on the vcr and held it in
pause until a few seconds before the start of the programme.

More recently I started having problems with some BBC shows that started
around midnight, but in any case I began recording from digital boxes
and had to forget about PDC (except that I still use it regularly for
recording from Arte on digital satellite, and haven't had any problem
there).

It sounds like you've had a lot more luck with it than me. I tried it
in the early days and it was truly dire. Each time I bought a new
video, I had another bash. The last one was a couple of years ago - it
was better, but still messed-up big-time occasionally. I'd much rather
resign myself to pressing the "+10 min" button for each recording than
risk missing it altogether - or worse, find out after watching most of
the program, that the last 15 minutes is missing... again (
As far as I'm concerned, Setting up a time-driven recording is pretty
near perfect. It's difficult for PDC to beat that and, for me at
least, it never did.

Colin.

On 05/05/2004, Kennedy McEwen wrote in message
:

Well its "almost" working on my Humax F2-Fox T.

Almost, in that it doesn't show a guide for all of the next 8 days, but
its a lot more than just the now and next that was there yesterday.

BBC channels seem to be 2 and a half hays in the future.
Other channels range from half a day to 1 and a half days in the future.

It may be doing something like showing the next 20 programmes
for each channel.

Simon.
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