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New Sky+ HD EPG

Wednesday, July 11th, 2012
sky-epg-new

Sky are in the process of rolling out updates to the Sky+ HD EPG, initially just available for the Amstrad DRX890 and DRX895 box. All other boxes are scheduled to get the update later in the yar, apart from Thomson DSI8215 for which there are no plans.

Key features:

  • Fresh new look – same layout but brighter colours and more channels per page
  • Genre tabs added to the planner
  • New quick links in the TV Guide – icons to jump to  Channels, Recordings, On Demand, Rentals and Search

Video and more info

Yet more info

* that’s not my hand in the picture by the way……… my hand is much hairier! [evil laugh]

Sky Anytime+ Set To Be Rolled Out To Everyone

Monday, January 30th, 2012

Sky have announced that from Easter 2012 their Sky Anytime+ service will be available to all subscribers with an Anytime+ capable HD box, regardless of who supplies their broadband. Up until now customers were required to have the Sky Broadband package.

Sky Anytime+ comes at no extra charge and already provides access to a wide range of on-demand content including movies, entertainment, documentaries and drama ‘box sets’.

Sky will also be adding BBC iPlayer and ITV Player content to the Anytime+ service, after reaching agreement with BBC and ITV.

Sky Anytime+ goes from strength to strength with more content and increased reach [sky.com]

Watch ESPN For Free

Sunday, January 29th, 2012

All Sky customers will be able to watch ESPN free from 6am Friday 3rd February until 6am Monday 6th February. This includes ESPN, ESPN HD, ESPN America and ESPN America HD.

Fri 3rd Feb:
19:30 – LIVE Bundesliga: Nuremberg v Dortmund

Sat 4th Feb:
01:00 – LIVE NBA New York @ Boston
16.30 – LIVE Barclays Premier League: Manchester City v Fulham
19:45 – LIVE Serie A: Roma v Inter

Sun 6th Feb:
03:00 – LIVE UFC 143 St Pierre v Diaz
11:30 – LIVE Serie A: Genoa v Lazio
13:45 – LIVE Serie A: Fiorentina v Udinese
16:45 – LIVE Bundesliga: Kaiserslauern v Cologne
19:15 – LIVE Serie A: AC Milan v Napoli

subject to change



Upcoming after this weekend:

Tues 8th Feb:
19:30 – FA Cup 4th round replay.

Sat 11th Feb:
11:15: SPL – Dunfermline v Rangers
14:00: APR – Gloucester v Northampton
16:30: BPL – Spurs v Newcastle
19:45: Serie A

Sun 12th Feb:
12:30: APR – Wasps v Saracens
16:15: Bundesliga – Cologne v Hamburg

Wed 15th & Thurs 16th Feb:
UEFA Europa League (1x Wed, 2 x Thurs)

Sat 18th & Sun 19th Feb:
FA Cup 5th Round fixtures x 2
Assorted Serie A, Bundelsiga, APR ,Top 14, NBA games

Sky Digital – Current Offers – December 2011

Saturday, November 26th, 2011

Here’s a round-up of the latest Sky Digital offers for new and existing customers. All offers valid until 29th December 2011 (unless stated) and only available online.

UPDATE: These offers have now expired. Please see the Sky Offers page for the latest deals.

Sky+ TV, broadband and calls



· £100 M&S voucher (until 21st December)
· Free Sky+ box and £30 set-up
· Broadband everyday lite and inclusive evening and weekend calls
· Sky wireless N router
· Plus £12.25 line rental
· Prices from £20 a month
New customers only.

Sky+ HD, broadband and calls



· £100 M&S voucher (until 21st December)
· Free Sky+HD box and free standard set-up
· Broadband everyday lite and inclusive evening and weekend calls
· Sky wireless N router
· Plus £12.25 line rental
· Prices from £30.25 a month
New customers only.

6 months half price Sky broadband unlimited for existing customers



· Up to 20Mb unlimited half price for 6 months, with calls and line rental
· £3.75 for the first 6 months then just £7.50 a month
· Includes evening and weekend calls to UK landlines
· Includes Wifi N router
· Plus £12.25 line rental
Existing Sky TV customers only.

6 months half price broadband unlimited with calls and line rental for new customers without TV



· Up to 20Mb unlimited broadband half price for 6 months, with calls and line rental
· Prices from £5 a month for the first 6 month then just £10 a month
· Includes evening and weekend calls to UK landlines
· Includes Wifi N router
· Plus £12.25 line rental
· No activation fee
New customers only.

TiVo Cancels EPG Service

Wednesday, February 16th, 2011

First the good news: the TiVo service for series1 users is free for the next 3 months.

The bad news: as of 1st Jun 2011 TiVo is discontinuing the EPG service.

This follows on from the withdrawal of the InView EPG service for Digifusion, Sony, Thomson and Inverto Freeview boxes, in June last year.

TiVo are encouraging users to switch the TiVo-powered Virgin Media service; a service which is only available to 50% of the UK.

See the official announcement:
http://support.tivo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/318/kw/uk

Joshua Danovitz, GM & VP of TiVo has put a post up on the TiVo blog about this:
http://blog.tivo.com/2011/02/1123/

Solutions

I don’t know much about the TiVo service or the boxes, but it sounds like there are some possibilities if you hack your box.

Steve Jenkins produced a guide to adding a network card to the TiVo and setting up TiVoWeb:
http://tivo.stevejenkins.com/network_cd.html

The wikipedia page for TiVoWeb is worth a read also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoweb