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BBC/BSkyB Dispute UPDATE:
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<blockquote data-quote="2old4this" data-source="post: 20002" data-attributes="member: 174998"><p>Well this all brings me back to my favourite hobby-horse: why is Sky allowed to impose a fixed EPG at all? </p><p></p><p>If the current effort and lobbying were redirected into forcing Sky to provide the same facility as every other tuning device ever produced (i.e. user-definable channel positions) then the whole problem would be solved...</p><p></p><p>It won't bother me too much if BBC goes to channel 214 since it will be FTA and therfore finally receivable on my main satellite receiver. On that I can place it wherever I want in the channel list.</p><p></p><p>@meatball: the problem with the favourite button is that due to yet another insidious Murdoch software cripple it is still only possible to define 20 favourites. Mine were used up long ago. Here again, I can't think of any other digital receiver with such a primitive favourite facility. It is exactly the combination of a huge fixed channel list, and a tiny favourites facility that makes the positioning near the "top" such a powerful (and money-spinning) option. Which is why the independent advisors and lobbyists should be tackling these deliberate software design limitations. Actually, I wonder whether any of them even realise that there's another way of doing things. Perhaps Sky's digibox is the only receiver they've ever seen. Perhaps they simply assume there's some fundamental technical reason for having a fixed EPG. </p><p></p><p>2old</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="2old4this, post: 20002, member: 174998"] Well this all brings me back to my favourite hobby-horse: why is Sky allowed to impose a fixed EPG at all? If the current effort and lobbying were redirected into forcing Sky to provide the same facility as every other tuning device ever produced (i.e. user-definable channel positions) then the whole problem would be solved... It won't bother me too much if BBC goes to channel 214 since it will be FTA and therfore finally receivable on my main satellite receiver. On that I can place it wherever I want in the channel list. @meatball: the problem with the favourite button is that due to yet another insidious Murdoch software cripple it is still only possible to define 20 favourites. Mine were used up long ago. Here again, I can't think of any other digital receiver with such a primitive favourite facility. It is exactly the combination of a huge fixed channel list, and a tiny favourites facility that makes the positioning near the "top" such a powerful (and money-spinning) option. Which is why the independent advisors and lobbyists should be tackling these deliberate software design limitations. Actually, I wonder whether any of them even realise that there's another way of doing things. Perhaps Sky's digibox is the only receiver they've ever seen. Perhaps they simply assume there's some fundamental technical reason for having a fixed EPG. 2old [/QUOTE]
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