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SKY+ and Football First
Scottishwhite
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I'm off to a wedding on the firsy day of the season (2nd wedding in 6 years held on the first day of the season). I am wanting to record one of the football first matches (I seem to remember hearing that the latest update will give us the option of recording an interactive application), does anyone know if this is possible and if so how to set it in advance?
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because the red button during football first would need to be pressed and match of your choice chosen
the answer is no you cant
No technical reason no, however how would the Sky+ box know when to press the Red button, and then know how to select what game you wanted to record.
The Champions League and Prem highlights game would have had to been selected by the individual. Once chosen, press select and then there's your game to either watch or record. Not so simple I imagine if you're not there.
Regards James
I think somewhere we're both getting our wires crossed.
Indeed with the latest s/ware you can indeed record Interactive streaming. This will coincide with the nre Prem service and multistart movies.
I imagine the way it will be implemented will be to press Red and wait for the interactive games/highlights to load. There will then me a choice of games that will be on offer to watch the extended highlights. It will be these highlights (in the interactive application) that you would be able to record. The same goes for the Champions League games. Where as last year you could choose the game you wanted to watch via SSX, you could not record it. This year, with this latest s/ware you will be able to choose and record(handy if you then go out) The same could be said for the Prem highlights. If you are there at 22:30, or whenever it's on, you can choose your game from the interactive application, and then record it if you choose to go out or leave the room, or watch another channel etc.
I think the original question was whether you would be able to set up in advance one of these interactive matches. Personally I don't think it would be as like I said, I can't see how the box would be able to guess which game you wanted to watch. You can record the interactive games once the red button has been pressed, however I don't think the box will press the red button for you.............therefore not being able to set it up in advance..................phew
Regards James
If they had changed the main match Sky+ users would have been able to record a particular match in advance. What a shame they are not broadcasting a different match each time.
An earlier news story on this site seemed to suggest that the interactive streams would appear on the EPG, which if true suggests that you will be able to set them to record in advance:
Possibly THE best advancement since Sky+ was developed.
Roll on the 14th !!!!...................Come on you Spurs
Regards James
Select Champions League from the EPG as normal, except you will be presented with a new screen perhaps with something like this:-
Please select your chosen match
1. Arsenal v Inter Milan
2. Porto v Bayern Munich
3. Man Utd v Roma
4. Ajax v Panathinaikos
5. Fenerbahce v Juventus
6. Paris SG v Celtic
0. Main match coverage
Would be very simple really. Come the time when the program starts, the box doesn't need to press the red button for you etc, it just needs to directly record the interactive stream that you have selected.
Of course if this is not how this new feature is going to work, and you do in fact have to access interactive first, then the whole thing is pretty useless really, and the only benifit I can see, is that you will have the option to use live pause on one of the interactive games if necessary.
If we do get an extended choice menu like above, then I would also like to see the feature implemented on other sports other than just the football. I like my tennis, and it would be nice to be able to select a certain court in advance to record on Masters Series events and the US Open.
Nice idea Jon.....
........Have you ever thought about a job in Sky+'s s/ware development/technical dept.
Regards James
Sports section..Page 49
To choose one of these matches ........Press the red button on your Sky remote while watching Football First . You'll see a video menu and you can use the arrows or number keys to select the match of your choice.
To Watch a diffrent match .......You can choose to join highlights of one of the other games by pressing ' Back Up ' to navigate the video menu, or short cut by using the number buttons. The service will also be available on certain midweek Premiership nights.
There certainly doesn't appear to be any mention of additional EPG entries enabling Sky+ users to set up recordings in advance . This however isn't surprising as the mags put together about 6wks in advance and at this stage I don't imagine they'd of known that there was new S/ware supporting this.
However it does say to me that as the viewer can choose which highlights he wants to watch, if the s/ware is ready then there will be the option to record one, whilst watching another. This said.......You will not be able to set it up in advance.
As Jon and Richard said....pretty useless if you're not there.
Regards James
Now you are being optomistic
Regards James
mmm, the changes that one could make to the whole system
Anyway, in an ideal world I would implement a system 'slightly' different to what I originally suggested. It's ok to have a new screen pop up when you select a programme like that in the main EPG, but if you selected "Football First" to record from the search and scan bar, would you want your viewing interuppted by a whole screen of info. So I change my initial thoughts slightly. How about this:-
All programmes with the option to record an interactive screen should be marked with an 'i' in the top right hand corner of the info banner (where it currently shows W for widescreen etc).
When selecting an interactive program to record, you don't instantly get a new screen appear like I sugeested before (so it doesn't interrupt your viewing), instead....
In the personal planner, when the new program is highlighted by the user a new option appears at the bottom of the screen for when the "red" button is pressed (currently not used), by pressing red here you then get to select which match to record (using the screen I posted before). By using this method, you would also be able to pop back into the planner at any time before the program starts to change your mind. If you never select an interactive option, it records the main program feed by default.
When pressing the "i" button in the personal planner on an interactive program, it would show which interactive game you have selected.
What do you think of that??
Something that springs to mind if we do get to choose interactive screens in advance.
We should have the option to add the same program to the personal planner twice, this would allow you to dual record 2 different games then. Currently if you press record on a program you already have set up, it would add it again.
I thought you'd have to wait till tommorow (sunday) before you could even see next saturdays EPG????
Unless you're able to set up in advance which Interactive highlight game you want to record, or unless Sky have a different game showing on each programme throughout the night, what is the point in Sky repeating the programme one after the other throughout the night.
You watch the full highlights of say Spurs v Liverpool at 20:00 (or whatever time it is on). Then at 22:15 you press the red button and choose the game of your choice.
It's then on again at 23:45, 01:15, 02:45 etc.............what good is that if you cannot set the game up in advance. Most people have gone to bed for goodness sake.
Regards James
Looks like I'll be stuck with MoTD who, if they are anything like The Premiership, will show about 45 seconds of me beloved Villa right at the end :mad:
Re interactive recording though, Sky said we'd also be able to record multistart films, so when is the next film on interactive? We could try that to see what happens (if anything). This Saturdays Premiere is Star Trek.