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Possible new features for Sky+ before Christmas ????
james payne
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Good evening to you all.
I apologise if this is old news, or has been posted before.
I have just stumbled across a piece of news reported today from Home Cinema Choice (John Archer), that news has been filtered his way of major new features being uploaded to Sky+ users. It goes onto say that these features, and the main one being Telephone Remote programming, could be made available before Christmas. It did not explain how this would be achieved, and whether the time scale is in fact realistic, however he was confirming this news as he spoke.
I would provide a link..................however I don't know how to do it
Worth a read though.
Regards James
I apologise if this is old news, or has been posted before.
I have just stumbled across a piece of news reported today from Home Cinema Choice (John Archer), that news has been filtered his way of major new features being uploaded to Sky+ users. It goes onto say that these features, and the main one being Telephone Remote programming, could be made available before Christmas. It did not explain how this would be achieved, and whether the time scale is in fact realistic, however he was confirming this news as he spoke.
I would provide a link..................however I don't know how to do it
Worth a read though.
Regards James
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but i coud be wrong.
Not so optimistic now though. His original source is a Sky Sales Advisor !!!
Correct me if I'm wrong, however aren't these people the ones you speak to everyday who basically tell you anything, because they actually know nothing !!!
Sorry to any Sky Sales Advisors for any offence caused, however you could write a book sometimes on what you tell people just to get them off the phone.
Regards James
Regards James
What it really needs is the ability to browse to the EPG and TVGuide pages online via wifi or some other expansion card that you can chuck inthe back! IF it was wifi it would be awesome! Have the ability to see what's in your planner, delete stuff etc.. Oh how that would rock my world if it ever happened!
Strewth !!! Gigolos beware.
Could see that feature breaking a few relationships :eek:
Regards James
Doobry,
I believe that this can be done NOW! If SKY can dial into your box to download info then they can communicate with it to tell it to record.
Dont see why not?
bubby
Of course if it does work this way it will mean Sky will be able to set your box to record anything they think you may wish to watch e.g. adverts!
Automan.
It's ALWAYS other way aroung - e.g. Sky will send signal to your card / box to "call home" and that's exactly what box will try to do.
So - if there will be any phone ordering of recording - it will work ONLY if you call to call centre and they'll then send signal to your box via the dish ...
1. A simple "record this" message is sent across the satellite to tell the Sky+ to record an item. There would however be no interactive aspect to this. The modem could/would dial out with a confirmation to limit resends. I think this is the most likely method.
2, A "connect" message is sent across the satellite to tell the modem to dial out. Once connected you would have full interactive comms with the Sky+ box. The downside to this could be the latency for the "connect" message to get to the box, when you match a viewing card Sky say the match can take up to 2 hours to take, clearly unacceptable.
If the expansion slot were use with say an ethernet card then instant access could be obtained via a broadband connection, no way before Christmas and also far to complicated for the average Sky user.
Now you will have people wondering.
Watched a recording of Casualty from the Planner about 2 hrs ago. After watching and going to the planner to delete, I noticed Emmerdale for tomorrow evening had suddenly appeared in my planner set to record, complete with series link set.
I know for a fact that it wasn't there when we started to watch Casualty.
Regards James
Regards
Know the bBest way to use sky+ series link......... get a Tivo, far superior in this area and reliability (although not in others IMHO)
seriously telephone recording owuld be awesome. you could open a WAP interface on your mobile, log into your account, view the entire EPG & your entire planner & make changes as you wish on your mobile phone!!!!!
Better still use a pc anywhere in the world access the entire epg and your planner, set recordings (and delete recordings from planner if spece required??) why bother with a mobile pbone
Version 1 will probably be text 101(1930-2000) to 80731 or something like that...but the concept has so many great variations.
If this goes ahead, it would be a superb update. The 'phantom' planner inserts are interesting, would make sense, but again i doubt it is related. Prob just some tech fault rather than any behind the scenes testing, fingers crossed though...........
I gets my vote, as I spend a lot of time out of the country, and have to rely on the misses to catch anything I may want to watch.
Because you're likely to have your mobile phone with you most of the time.
The majority of times I've thought "damn, I've forgotten to set something" I've been nowhere near a PC.