In article , Malcolm H
writes


"Vincent" wrote in message
.. .
On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 01:09:45 +0100, "Gary"
wrote:


On the HD box's anytime is useful. That is, It works. and no you
can't have
the space for yourself so you might as well have anytime on as it is free
and you occasionally get a good programme on it.

SD box . It causes problems.


I have to disagree slightly with this. Ever since Anytime first
appeared I noticed way more frequent crashes. By "way more" I mean my
Sky box crashes maybe once a month, sometimes twice, with Anytime
switched OFF, and specifically it crashes when I'm hitting FastForward
or Rewind lots and it's playing and recording lots of HD stuff all at
the same time and basically can't keep up.

With Anytime switched ON it crashes sometimes twice a day, and
sometimes when it's doing absolutely nothing (no scheduled recordings,
no playback) and just watching a random channel.

I gave them a long time to fix these issues, and retried turning
Anytime back on just last month. Exactly the same behavior.

Sure, it recorded one thing I wanted to watch (which I had recorded
via the planner anyway), but in general I wasn't that impressed with
the content. Mostly stuff on channels I don't have (waste of space),
and most of the rest was stuff I wasn't interested in.

The same stability issues directly associated to having Anytime on
have been reported quite frequently in this newsgroup.

-- Vincent

I find Anytime very useful and have NEVER had a crash! (Pace Sky+HD).

The best thing is that there are never any commercials in Anytime
programmes.

Or DOGs on the Anytime programmes that I've watched.
--
Sean Black