Thread: Why is the EPG so restrictive?
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Old 01-02-2006, 20:53   #8
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Re: Why is the EPG so restrictive?
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Originally Posted by fil57
Thanks for all the replies; I guess we have to put up with the bandwidth/memory restrictions for now for the EPG. But surely it should be relatively simple to add a function to the STB software to switch the box on at any given time on a particular channel without having to refer to the EPG (as the old analogue box did)? Couldn't take more than a few lines of code?
Yes, it would be very easy, and it's been suggested many times over the years. Yet I've never heard a convincing reason why NTL (or Telewest or Sky) don't do it this way.
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