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Thread ID: 107570 2010-02-22 06:31:00 Sky Programme Guide Cptn Hotshot (3904) PC World Chat
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860588 2010-02-22 10:07:00 Hmmm, it shouldn't make a difference, AFAIK all the listing are delivered through OpenTV (which is proprietary, lol). The channels in question (well, all of them really) are 'wrapped' with the EPG data. All of it. Which is why it takes up to an hour to refresh the EPG. ubergeek85 (131)
860589 2010-02-23 01:07:00 Sky's satellite broadcasts of TV1, 2, 3, 4 and Maori TV are separate from Freeview's. They should contain their EPG like any other Sky station.

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GoodHour (12218)
860590 2010-02-23 01:31:00 There are a few different models floating round. There's one or two models from Motorola, and AFAIK the rest are all Pace, including the small silver one and MySky.

I've never seen it happen on MySky, yet.

Have you tried unplugging the box?

The ex has this upgraded last week and does the same as her old sky
you can view a few hours ahead and some times no listings available
Must be the set up
Gobe1 (6290)
860591 2010-02-23 03:02:00 You can always use the guide on the internet.
:)
Trev (427)
860592 2010-02-23 08:43:00 It would be nice if someone who works for Sky and knows the ins and outs of the system can tell us why this sort of thing happens and why it cannot be corrected. If they can broadcast a programme 24/7 why cant the programme guide do the same. Cptn Hotshot (3904)
860593 2010-02-23 08:55:00 Because you have an old box which has beggar all memory to hold all the info... has to keep looking for it.

This was how the Sky tech guy explained it to me.

Complain, ask for a new box and tell them to go jump about paying a service charge.

Ken :banana

That's what I once thought, that the original Pace 600 decoders were low on memory and later ones were faster. Last time I asked if a change of decoder would improve things the Sky CSR said they had quite a few later models and they were all slow. I suspect they've nobbled the standard decoder to push you towards MySky.
PaulD (232)
860594 2010-02-23 21:08:00 That's what I once thought, that the original Pace 600 decoders were low on memory and later ones were faster. Last time I asked if a change of decoder would improve things the Sky CSR said they had quite a few later models and they were all slow. I suspect they've nobbled the standard decoder to push you towards MySky.

Sounds par for course. They did this to me and I ended up with a MySky unit. Funny how I had had Sky for 17 years and never had a pixelating problem until this unit was installed.... drove me nuts. Sky went through the reboot options etc. and then said they would send an installer round to fix it, but if it was my fault, I would have to pay the service call. I had only had the darn thing about 6 week, with problems all the time. I blew my top at that! That being one of the reasons I dumped Sky!

Ken
kenj (9738)
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