Re: Fw: TiVo About to Re-launch in the UK

[Sean <thunderchilduk@xxxxxxxxx>]

So does the freesat system just use the sky birds/dish?

Sean

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Gareth Cook <g@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> 1. HD
> 2. No Sky contract - been using Freesat from Sky for over a year -
still
> have to pay =A310 for the PVR features.
>
> Sky HD with a decent selection of channels is going to cost you
hundreds
> per yer. Of course, if you want Sports, its the only way to go.
>
>
>
> Why?
> Just asking
> Mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Gareth Cook
> Sent: 01 June 2008 20:06
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Fw: [ukha_d] TiVo About to Re-launch in the UK
>
> Yep - very clunky. Once you know how to get around, its bloody fast.
>
> After having Sky for so many years tho, I'm off for the land of a
> freesat
> HD PVR in July.
>
>
>
> I bought my folks a Sky+ box two Christmases ago as I thought they'd
use
>
> it
> (and they do) but for the hell of me I couldn't work out how to get to
> see
> a
> program that I'd recorded ...
>
> ... "TV Guide" and "red" (IIRC) is so obvious of
course - I don't
> understand
> why I didn't think of it straight away - seems much simpler than
hitting
>
> the
> "Recorded TV" button on MCE.
>
> Credit where it's due of course - it does generally work pretty well
but
> there are just some major howlers that, as the closed system that it
is,
> just shouldn't be there.
>
> TiVo would just go off and record stuff for me based on what I'd told
it
> I
> liked so I never used to have to worry about whether there was a new
> season
> of Top Gear coming up - it was in TiVos wishlist so TiVo would go and
> record
> it. I always had "new" films to watch as the entire
"films" category was
>
> in
> TiVos wishlist (but not as high a priority as Top Gear) so TiVo would
go
>
> and
> record films whenever they were on and it wasn't doing anything else.
>
> I have to say I'd be the first person in line if there was an
up-to-date
> multiple DVB-T or DVB-S (unfortunately my DVB-T reception here is
> abysmal)
> tuner version of TiVo available... *sigh*
>
> Oh - I also don't like that you can't get recordings off a Sky+ or
SkyHD
>
> box
> nor do I particularly like giving Murdoch loads of money each month -
it
>
> was
> bad enough that they did the EPG for TiVo and I had to pay them for
> that.
> :-(
>
> Phil
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> > Of Mark McCall
> > Sent: 01 June 2008 10:00
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: Fw: [ukha_d] TiVo About to Re-launch in the UK
> >
> > > Simple. Fast.
> >
> > More like
> >
> >
> > Shocking. Bad.
> >
> > M.
> >
> >
> >
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