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grahamlthompson

31-10-2009

Originally Posted by Tern:
“Crucial it may be but it's off the topic of this thread.

The question is: Why use such a goofy system in the first place rather than simply embed the data in the EPG which would have meant there was never any problem in the first place?

No one has even made a stab at answering that.”

Judging by the time it takes to do a channel scan I can imagine the complaints if that time was added to the around 30 sec it takes to download a new epg. In any case it's a pretty pointless discussion, the system's not designed that way and there's zero chance of it being changed.

Tern

31-10-2009

Originally Posted by grahamlthompson:
“Judging by the time it takes to do a channel scan I can imagine the complaints if that time was added to the around 30 sec it takes to download a new epg.”

The two cases are entirely different. When scanning the receiver has to tune into every frequency and check each polarisation for transponders. The full EPG contains many Megabytes of data (including all the programme 'info') but an index of tuning details for each extant channel would add a couple of k at most.

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“The EPG In any case it's a pretty pointless discussion, the system's not designed that way and there's zero chance of it being changed.”

ROFLMAO.

Unlike all the other discussions here. (Even before they devolve into a discussion of Sky's expense v it's extra channels

).

I just wondered if there was some good reason for the apparently brain dead design that I'd overlooked.

It seems that if there was no one here is aware of it.

rent-a-nuke

01-11-2009

Originally Posted by Tern:
“The two cases are entirely different. When scanning the receiver has to tune into every frequency and check each polarisation for transponders. The full EPG contains many Megabytes of data (including all the programme 'info') but an index of tuning details for each extant channel would add a couple of k at most.

ROFLMAO.

Unlike all the other discussions here. (Even before they devolve into a discussion of Sky's expense v it's extra channels ).

I just wondered if there was some good reason for the apparently brain dead design that I'd overlooked.

It seems that if there was no one here is aware of it.”

What we ideally need is a bit of inside info from "someone in the know", possibly going by the name of Bob...

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