RE: Re: Christmas gadgets

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, my folks have Sky+ and I do find that the sequence "TV
Guide" then
"Green" to get to your recorded programs seems somewhat
obscure...

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of mwgardner2000
> Sent: 27 December 2007 14:37
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Christmas gadgets
>
>
> Hi,
>
> At the risk of being flamed..... :-)
>
> What is so awful with the Sky UI? I guess its maybe horses
> for courses, but as I've never used Tivo, and personally have
> found two PC based media centers to be less than user
> friendly, including Vista MC, I'm not sure what it is thats
> missing / wrong with the Sky UI.
>
> Sky+ does what I need it to do, and in a pretty user friendly way,
> with IMHO two minor gripes (the colours used, no dedicated
> planner button on the remote) and one major gripe
> (Murdoch...), but it does what it says on the tin, and for me
> is right up their with Sonos as two of my top gadgets.
> Touching wood heavily, after some initial reliability
> problems, its rock solid too....
>
> So, enlighten me please! What could be better? I'm genuinely
> interested to know what features the UI is missing...
>
> OK - I can think of a couple of additional Sky+ features I'd
> like (ability to network the box so you can take recordings
> to another device, and have full control of it from the web),
> but the UI itself works for me.
>
> Is the Sky HD UI materially different to Sky+?
>
> Roll on the "promised" Sky Server...
>
> Ducks for cover.....
>
> Mark (no, not that one!)
>
> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "automatedhomeuk" <lists@...>
wrote:
> >
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> > > And now I am getting it in the neck as we went from TiVo to
Sky
> HD,
> > > man I wish they would release a HD TiVo in the UK, I would
be
> first in
> > > line with cash in hand.
> >
> > Yeah, if you set out to deliberately make the UI awful could you
do
> a
> > better job than Sky have done?  It's bloody awful.
> >
> > I can only assume that TiVo and others have many patents that
have
> > meant Sky+ had to do it another way?
> >
> > Although if that is the case, why didn't Sky just license TiVo's
> > technology.
> >
> > M.
> >
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