"Vass" wrote in message ...



I'm HD but no new planner
can I force a download and will it update? or is this a 2 week rollout?
TIA


hmm apparently not

any ideas?

"Triffid" wrote in message
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Pete Zahut wrote:
Gary wrote:
What a mess. the new EPG is.

Gary

Watching Sky right now and I haven't got a new EPG. Should I have?
I'm on standard Sky+ box, not HD box.

Only for Sky HD customers.

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Triff.



I am ordinary Sky+ and IO am pleased to say the HD channels on the EPG have
now disappeared. Plus some of the channel;s have moved ie. Comedy central
now 112. Sky Atlantic just appeared.

PeterL

Vass wrote:
"Vass" wrote in message ...



I'm HD but no new planner
can I force a download and will it update? or is this a 2 week
rollout? TIA


hmm apparently not

any ideas?

It's not dramatically or noticeably different. The position of some HD
channels have been changed on the SD tab (and they've been re-numbered).

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Triff

"Graham." wrote in message
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"Gary" wrote in message
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What a mess. the new EPG is.

Gary

You don't believe in better then? ;-)

(uk.tec.digital-tv removed)

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Graham.

%Profound_observation%
critcher said.............................
obviously a ploy by sky to group their channels together and to place the
other hd channels out of the way.
Why???? revenue.

On 01/02/2011 17:42, Triffid wrote:
Pete Zahut wrote:
Gary wrote:
What a mess. the new EPG is.

Gary

Watching Sky right now and I haven't got a new EPG. Should I have?
I'm on standard Sky+ box, not HD box.

Only for Sky HD customers.

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Triff.
aye but they have still f**cked the channel listing up for us sky+
users. why have they decided to break channels like comedy central away
from their little grouping so we have one in the low numbers and the
rest back up where they used to be?

"MC" wrote:
.

I do not think the change has made it easier as all it has achieved is
forcing the viewer to relearn all the channel numbers again.

Why need to learn channel numbers? Use the EPG or consult the Radio Times
(other listings magazines are available).

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George from Cartland

On Thu, 3 Feb 2011 00:10:29 +0000 (UTC), George put finger to keyboard and
typed:

"MC" wrote:
.

I do not think the change has made it easier as all it has achieved is
forcing the viewer to relearn all the channel numbers again.

Why need to learn channel numbers? Use the EPG or consult the Radio Times
(other listings magazines are available).

Because having the numbers in your head is by far the quickest and simplest
method of switching channels between any that are not immediately adjacent.
Any channel to any other channel in just three button presses. Using the
EPG requires multiple button presses and scrolling to get to where you
want, and is therefore significantly slower and more fiddly. And having to
look up a number in an external source, such as a listings magazine, is
even slower and even less convenient.

I know the numbers of all the channels I use regularly, and I would guess
that most Sky users do as well. Having to re-learn them after a renumbering
is necessary, but irritating.

Mark
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Blog: http://mark.goodge.co.uk
Stuff: http://www.good-stuff.co.uk

On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 22:42:08 +0000, Mike Henry put finger to keyboard and
typed:

In e.net, Mark Goodge
wrote:

I know the numbers of all the channels I use regularly, and I would guess
that most Sky users do as well. Having to re-learn them after a renumbering
is necessary, but irritating.

Ah right, I see where you're coming from - you're still watching live TV.
When you make the leap to just setting up recordings (once, at the start
of season 1 of something) and watching from the recordings list you
realise you don't ever need to know the numbers. Provided your PVR offers
proper title/keyword/actor searching, of course :-)

I agree that if you're regularly channel-hopping live TV the old way,
you'd find it easier to know numbers - but personally I haven't watched TV
that way for over 9 years. Try it, you'll never look back!

I record some things, but the majority of my viewing is news and sport,
neither of which are particularly meaningful when recorded. And, when I'm
not watching news or sport, I tend to channel hop to see what's on. Often,
I discover new programmes that are worth watching by doing so. If you start
from the assumption that you're going to preset the box to record all that
you want, you lose the serendipity of discovering something that you
wouldn't otherwise have watched. Also, I use the music channels as
background sometimes when I'm doing something else (such as working on the
PC), and, again, that's the sort of thing that it doesn't really make sense
to record.

Mark
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Blog: http://mark.goodge.co.uk
Stuff: http://www.good-stuff.co.uk