Channel Order?

[asdf]

Originally Posted by zendawn

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/deus69/My_Channels.htm

From my PoV that seems the best. Just gotta wait for LCR3 to hit Notts so I can sort mine out

[chaney]

I Know this sounds long winded but I typed all channels along with numbers into microsoft excel. This way you can order any of the progams or channel numbers in any way you want.

Also you can the delete or add any channel as they are added or deleted and have a printed copy by your TV all the time.

[zendawn]

Originally Posted by chaney

I Know this sounds long winded but I typed all channels along with numbers into microsoft excel. This way you can order any of the progams or channel numbers in any way you want.

Also you can the delete or add any channel as they are added or deleted and have a printed copy by your TV all the time.

I used Frontpage in a similar fashion. Only had to cut and paste as the list was already done by someone else (link in the HTML).
I mainly use it as a reminder for when the favorites lists defaults back, like when the box is changed.

[zendawn]

Originally Posted by asdf

From my PoV that seems the best. Just gotta wait for LCR3 to hit Notts so I can sort mine out

Of course I like it in that order.

I suppose it depends how you change channels too. I like to jump to a channel I can remember, like 62 Sky cinema, and then use channel up and down to go to MTV Hits whose number I can never remember.

Plus I like to flick between similar channels, so its easier to flick between the 3 UKGOLD channels if they are next to each other, rather than say going to channel 31, and then 904 by typing in the number.

[MovedGoalPosts]

Originally Posted by Tristan

They were originally designed along the lines of the packs available at the time. So (for CWC, at least) the original base pack channels have the low number, then it's sports and movies, the kids, etc. NTL were along the same lines.

Then NTL decided that from now on it would be a good idea to have the same channel numbers on both platforms for all new channels. So they decided that (almost) all new ones would go in the 800s and 900s. I was always under the impression that this was going to be temporary, until they'd worked out a new numbering scheme, but it increasingly looks permenant

Another "coming soon" feature then

[ntlrocks]

I dont mind channel orders, as as soon as i get LCR3 im spendin an hour fixin my favourites and stuff

[MikeyB]

I'm sorry, this subject always makes me chuckle when it comes up :o

Sky got it right from day 1, and it's all in a very logical order, grouped by type (entertainment, movies, sports, music, docu, radio etc)
The +1 channels are always one up from the normal one, a new channel comes along, and is slotted into the right section.

[Tristan]

Sky regularly swap a few channels around here and there, but I agree that they were on to a winner by giving each channel type it's own number section (if that makes sense).

That won't stop them changing round all the entertainment channels (100s and 200s) in a couple of weeks time though...

[MikeyB]

oh yeah, thats true, bit of a fairly big re-jig comming up on Sky, but the only channel that I watch that is moving is E4!

None of the, what I class as mainstream, channels are moving