EPG Reminders

barney111 · 26-07-2010, 08:20

Hello All

Love this forum been with virgin for 3 months any problems I have had have been fixed pretty quickly good service with advice and guidance from here.
Was with Sky from the beginning and got used to the following: say I want to watch TV at 9.00pm I would go through the whole guide and set reminders for all the programmes I fancied and then when reminded by the Sky box would then choose which one to watch.
With the Virgin EPG it will not allow me to do this or is there another way to meet my needs

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barney111

Digital Fanatic · 26-07-2010, 12:02

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Originally Posted by barney111

Hello All

Love this forum been with virgin for 3 months any problems I have had have been fixed pretty quickly good service with advice and guidance from here.
Was with Sky from the beginning and got used to the following: say I want to watch TV at 9.00pm I would go through the whole guide and set reminders for all the programmes I fancied and then when reminded by the Sky box would then choose which one to watch.
With the Virgin EPG it will not allow me to do this or is there another way to meet my needs

best

barney111

You can set reminders on the Virgin TV guide. If you highlight a programme it will say at the bottom of the screen "press OK to set reminder"

Tali · 26-07-2010, 12:52

You can only set one reminder at a time. I'm not aware of anything that would work in the same way that Sky's seems to.

barney111 · 26-07-2010, 13:11

Thanks Tali I thought so

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barney111

Digital Fanatic · 26-07-2010, 13:24

Not true... try it yourself... you can set as many as you like to do what you want, barney111

ChrisLUFC22 · 26-07-2010, 18:39

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Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic

Not true... try it yourself... you can set as many as you like to do what you want, barney111

Tried it myself, it works on my box DF.

nomadking · 26-07-2010, 18:55

Is the OP wanting to set reminders for more than one programme at a particular time(eg 9pm) and when 9pm comes along, to be able to select which one of those to actually watch? With +1 channels, repeats, and catch-up TV, planning gets more complicated.

barney111 · 26-07-2010, 22:02

Well I have tried to set 3 or 4 channels a number of times and they are rejected by the EPG
as clashes

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barney111

ChrisLUFC22 · 26-07-2010, 22:06

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Originally Posted by barney111

Well I have tried to set 3 or 4 channels a number of times and they are rejected by the EPG
as clashes

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barney111

Are u sure you're not trying to set them 2 record? Not insulting your intelligence, its easy done.

nomadking · 26-07-2010, 22:18

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Originally Posted by barney111

Well I have tried to set 3 or 4 channels a number of times and they are rejected by the EPG
as clashes

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barney111

Well, they are clashes. It allows you to not make a mistake of having more than one channel set. You can then use an external recorder to record that channel. How do you expect to watch 3/4 channels at once? Best to plan ahead with the use of +1 channels, repeats and catch-up TV. The V+ can record 2 channels at one time and allow you to watch a third or view catch-up/on demand.

barney111 · 27-07-2010, 08:30

Thank you nomadking but thats the point with the skybox when each channel was set it would allow me to overide the clash and at the appropriate time would cycle through what had been set allowing me to choose which programme I wanted to watch at the time.
A superior planning tool that saved me from going through the EPG at that time.
It is not a mistake. Unfortunately the Virgin EPG is like the nanny state that takes many keystrokes to achieve your needs and with the remote responsiveness being very poor just makes it slightly more difficult to set up my viewing pleasyres.

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barney111

LondonRoad · 27-07-2010, 08:39

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Originally Posted by barney111

Thank you nomadking but thats the point with the skybox when each channel was set it would allow me to overide the clash and at the appropriate time would cycle through what had been set allowing me to choose which programme I wanted to watch at the time.
A superior planning tool that saved me from going through the EPG at that time.
It is not a mistake. Unfortunately the Virgin EPG is like the nanny state that takes many keystrokes to achieve your needs and with the remote responsiveness being very poor just makes it slightly more difficult to set up my viewing pleasyres.

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barney111

Wait until the tivo arrives. If reports are correct it will know what you want to watch before you do

barney111 · 27-07-2010, 09:14

Nice one! LondonRoad

barney111

Tali · 27-07-2010, 13:33

What I meant to say was that you can only set one reminder for a given time. Yes, you can set as many as you like as long as they are all for different times and days.

scaseman · 27-07-2010, 14:32

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What I meant to say was that you can only set one reminder for a given time. Yes, you can set as many as you like as long as they are all for different times and days

Sounds like you must be watching to much telly