Quick update Ref EPG Update
james payne
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Good evening to you all.
Just to let you know , the new slightly tinkered Sky EPG is planned to start rolling out this month.
Regards as always
Beryl
Just to let you know , the new slightly tinkered Sky EPG is planned to start rolling out this month.
Regards as always
Beryl
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Hi
Whats been tinkered with in this new EPG thats rolling out?
Thanks
Baz
The new Home Screen and probably some bug fixes.
any date for this?
can we get this on a forced software download?
will you come back to us when it goes live?
Good evening Dan.
As always , when & if I'm given the nod to share more info with you , then my first port of call will be here on this forum.
I would love to share more , & what you're asking is certainly reasonable.
However , at this stage I know you'll appreciate , as you always have , that I'm unable to share anymore info until given the nod.
Kind regards as always
Beryl
They more than likely will stick to the usual roll out order of DRX890 895 first then pace samsung and DRX780 later. Wether the DRX595 will be in the first stage or second stage varies.
You won't get it via the Forced update process until it has rolled out to most people for your box type, otherwise it would defeat the point of the DR stream.
When it does start rolling out I'm sure they'll be lots of posts about it so you won't miss it.
Thanks Beryl as always much appreciated. By the way you may get the nod from your bosses to post the info, but do they know you have a feminine alter ego?
PJ
Have you seen it? And if so, How?
Wnat changes/alterations are there, that you can tell us of? Good/bad?
pocketlint already published an article about it, and the link was posted in this forum at the time.
http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/126910-sky-unveils-new-sky-tv-epg-to-push-on-demand-content-coming-this-spring
I think he meant James' apparent sex change!
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Really? You keep doing this. This thread isn't to do with changes that we want, its more information on the arrival of the new one. Most people know about the community suggestions box and I've never seen anything from there ever be put into motion. theres a post about a Chicken TV Channel on there for goodness sake!
You're 26 days too early...
I would guess you have been lied to.
Not your fault I'm sure.
This doesn't sound like Sky in the slightest.
Some or very little if what you said could happen but I'm guessing not.
Hopefully
but this is Sky so the groundwork has probably been made but full implementation may not come for months
May reduce need for PVR multiscreen boxes and increase need for 2TB + boxes
Are the non-PVR multiscreen boxes wifi enabled?
My idea for personal planner was never taken on nor answered to.
Not coming yet. A new WiFi non PVR will be launched and software updated on the current ones to allow the OD connectors to work to phone home etc.
How would on demand work on a box with no hard drive?
Sky should have gone with MediaHighway instead of getting involved with the "Darwin" project then we would have had "planner sharing" around 6 months ago. "Darwin/Picasso/Fusion" or whatever it's called now isn't exactly a high priority project with Cisco because there's only one customer for it.
A corporation as large as Cisco are bound to pull the plug on it eventually as their focus in firmly on MediaHighway which is why they bought out NDS in the first place.
Reread my post. I didn't say it would be used for OD services.
The middleware is called NDS Fusion, Darwin and Picasso were project names within Sky.
When Sky decided to switch to NDS Fusion, Fusion was supposed to be the new replacement for Media Highway, it's not Sky's fault NDS abandond it and went back to MediaHighway.
Sky is a large customer and considering a lot of the developers who develop the Sky Guide are NDS/Cisco staff I would say its in their interests to continue supporting it. There almost certain to If Sky pays the right price.
Cisco might encourage Sky to port their EPG over to MediaHighway in the future to make development and support easier, but they certainly wouldn't want to loose them as a customer.
I'm sure Sky is looking at the bigger picture and may in the future release new boxes which run a completely different EPG and Middleware.
There were changes to the Planner database in R006 if I remember rightly which were in preparation for Planner Sharing. So they've been working on it for a while, better to launch later with a stable product than early with a poor quality one.