Removing Unsubscribed Channels

Ghostlove · 04-02-2005, 20:38

The NTL man came today and fixed us up with a nice television box, telephone line and broadband connection. I'm happy with all three so far, except one thing about the telelvision which is driving me bananas.

When I flick through the channels, around 70% of them give me the "You are not subscribed to this channel. To subscribe please... blah blah." It makes me really mad to have to go through mountains of this gubbins just to channel-surf.

Is there any way I can get rid of these channels when I'm browsing the telelvision channels? I've tried looking through the favourites menu to see if there's a way to only have the 'Favourites' channels show up (as I could with FreeView) but there does not seem to be an option.

Any help on how to get rid of this annoyance would be greatly appreciated.

And hello by the way, you cannot have failed to notice that I'm new.

Mal · 04-02-2005, 20:41

Welcome to the site.

You can't remove them, all you can do is move them to the bottom of the favourite list.

Press favourites, then the red button to edit list and then go through them and move them to the bottom.

Ghostlove · 04-02-2005, 20:42

Oh dear. I have a feeling I won't be watching much television. I did try moving all of the unwanted channels to the bottom, but I gave up because it was taking so long to keep going up and down the list.

Thank you for your swift reply and advice.

Mal · 04-02-2005, 20:43

You only have to do it once though

Rillington · 04-02-2005, 21:36

It took two hours to do exactly that and the box crashed so I had to do it all again. Oh well, at least it gives me something to do.

Mike Harrison · 04-02-2005, 23:28

..or just move the handful of channels you are likely to watch to the top - probably far fewer to move than the unsubbed ones and rubbish shopping chans etc.

And don't forget those page-up/down keys - makes it MUCH faster to scroll up & down through the list.

05-02-2005, 08:19

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Originally Posted by Mal

You only have to do it once though

no you dont.

NTL often screw up my favourites list. I dont bother sorting them anymore. In fact NTL cant manage to keep them in ascending numerical sequence

paulyoung666 · 05-02-2005, 08:26

i will do the

to Ghostlove then

Ghostlove · 05-02-2005, 08:54

Hehe, thanks Paul, and thanks everyone for the warnings about the time it takes.

Mike - I was wondering how to easily and quickly scroll up and down the list, and hadn't noticed the page up/down keys

so thanks for letting me know.

05-02-2005, 09:26

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Originally Posted by gary_580

no you dont. NTL often screw up my favourites list. I dont bother sorting them anymore. In fact NTL cant manage to keep them in ascending numerical sequence

I have to say ours is not a problem all the junk channels have been moved to the bottom of the list and have stayed there ever since we moved them. I wonder if its a software problem you have that somehow corrects your selection to the original. How many people have had a problem with this? I hardly think that NTL would deliberately mess your selections up, surely it has to be a software problem.

Swipe · 05-02-2005, 14:00

I manually sorted channels one by one for two years without realising I could use the page up/down buttons :o Now I have all my active channels at the top, all radio channels towards the bottom (after unsubscribed channels) so i can channel down past 0 for radio when my TV is off

broomsy · 05-02-2005, 14:09

You know you can move ALL unsubscribed channels to the bottom with just one button. You dont have to keep going up and down. Its one of the number buttons. If you read on screen instructions it makes it easy

05-02-2005, 15:18

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Originally Posted by broomsy

You know you can move ALL unsubscribed channels to the bottom with just one button. You dont have to keep going up and down. Its one of the number buttons. If you read on screen instructions it makes it easy

yeah thats what i do, takes about 5 seconds!

iadom · 05-02-2005, 17:16

Quote:

Originally Posted by broomsy

You know you can move ALL unsubscribed channels to the bottom with just one button. You dont have to keep going up and down. Its one of the number buttons. If you read on screen instructions it makes it easy

That depends on which platform and more important, which software

you are using.
Edit. It does not work like that on Bromley/CR3