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Originally Posted by ian@huth
Best bet is to use Digiguide to plan your viewing. Just set it up to list the channels that you can receive, probably removing channels you will never watch from the list. You can also set up to 20 channels as favourites and scroll through these with the blue button to see what's on now and next on those channels.
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I use the
Radio Times online guide because it's free - but the upshot is the same. However it's not handy at home where we don't have always-on broadband and the computer's in a different room anyway (and I can't be bothered getting off the sofa after 8pm
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I have set up $ky's excuse of a favourites system, but anyone who has used both NTL's Langley CR3 EPG, and $ky's EPG, will tell you that $ky's is utter pants in comparison. The critical problem is that you can't rearrange listings into the order you want (although the letter hints that they will be introducing this). You don't need a blue-button 'favourites' functon on NTL because when you browse 'now and next' you see your favourites first anyway. On $ky, you have to repeatedly stab the blue button to travel up the now-and-next list by favourite, but you can't navigate back down it again. You have to cycle through all 20 to get back to the start. And even as a base-pack subscriber, there would be more than 20 channels in my favourite list if I were allowed them.