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RE: [OT] Is Sky + as crap as I think it is ?


  • Subject: RE: [OT] Is Sky + as crap as I think it is ?
  • From: "christopher purves" <CHRIS_PURVES@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 08:58:08 +0000

Perfect - I am not mad after all.

Chris


>From: "Rob Mouser" <groups@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] Is Sky + as crap as I think it is ?
>Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 09:41:48 +0100
>
>Nope, I think you're bang on. I think Sky+ STINKS as far as the
interface
>and EPG goes. As for the huge cost, lip synch issues............
>Shall I go on?
>I still have my Tivo on my second sub box which is available around the
>house. I cant live without it!
>
>Oh, DD on some movies is a small plus.
>
>Many thanks,
>
>Rob
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
>Of
> > christopher purves
> > Sent: 26 September 2005 09:34
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: [ukha_d] [OT] Is Sky + as crap as I think it is ?
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have been a long time Tivo user as has my wife and we both
loved it.
>We
> > recently had sky mutiroom installed which included a sky+ box -
the end
>of
> > tivo or so we thought. We have since been struggeling to get our
head
> > around
> > the sky+ interface and think we are gonna have to dig out the old
tivo
>and
> > plug it in again - atleast to the non '+' box.
> >
> > The simplest task like telling sky+ to record all 'Spooks'
episodes
>seems
> > impossible unless spooks happens to be on that day (a-z search
only
>works
> > on
> > todays programs as far as we can tell). Forget about it
automatically
> > recording new series automatically because we had previously had
a seaon
> > pass.
> >
> > Anyone else already gone through this and found the same or are
we being
> > really dumb and using sky+ incorrectly ? A friend told me he buys
a
>weekly
> > tv guide to find out when things are on and then searches by time
and
>date
> > to get stuff recorded but that rather defeats the object of an
EPG
>doesn't
> > it?
> >
> > Ta for any advice
> > Chris
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
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>Yahoo! Groups Links
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