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

["christopher purves" <CHRIS_PURVES@xxxxxxx>]

I must admit I was really shocked at how bad the SKY+ interface is. I
really
wouldn't have bothered getting it if I had known. The inability to search
by
name for more than 1 day ahead and get this - you can only enter the first
letter as far as I can tell when you do search - is the killer missing app
so to speak. Season passes are superb on tivo as is the season pass
manager.

Interestingly I just did a search for 'uk and tivo' and found suggestions
that tivo might be considering a return to the uk (on digital spy). That
would be a superb move IMHO.

Perhaops the sky HD box will be a little better ?

C


>From: "Keith Doxey" <ukha@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 10:10:34 +0100
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> > Back to buying radio times then surely ?
> >
>
>"Other listings magazines are available" as they often point
out on BBC :-)
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>I was in the process of thinking about getting SKY+.
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>We have all the movies so the subscription would cost me anything but I
>dont
>often get to see a movie as we are using the box for something else on
SKY.
>The ability to record from two channels would make it far easier to
record
>a
>few movies and programs on other SKY channels that clash.
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>I DONT plan to get Multiroom as I dont want to pay out any more money
to Mr
>Murdock but might get a FreeSat card for the existing box which would
then
>give me BBC3/4 CBBC/CBeebies etc plus the Radio station.
>
>I already have three Freeview boxes which can give me those channels
but
>Freeview reception here is pretty dire.
>
>Having said all that I am now unsure whether to change to SKY+ given
the
>comments about the User Interface. Since having TiVo, there have only
been
>a
>couple of occasions when we have missed things that we wanted to see
and it
>is definately a very SWMBO/SPROG friendly interface. (Perhaps that's
why MY
>programs get missed in preference to other household members!)
>
>Regards
>
>Keith
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>Yahoo! Groups Links
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