• Sky Go Guide

    From Tweed@21:1/5 to All on Tue Feb 21 18:12:52 2023
    This mainly aimed at Mark Carver, who seems to be I the same boat as me
    with the Sky Go programme guide. (Inputs welcome from others!)

    As we discovered a few weeks back, channel 101 (BBC1) has vanished from the guide. Now 115, which was the national BBC1 HD has vanished. I have to now spend ages scrolling down to 801 to find BBC1 East Midlands HD.

    Anyone else with this issue?

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  • From Mark Carver@21:1/5 to Tweed on Tue Feb 21 20:12:45 2023
    On 21/02/2023 18:12, Tweed wrote:
    This mainly aimed at Mark Carver, who seems to be I the same boat as me
    with the Sky Go programme guide. (Inputs welcome from others!)

    As we discovered a few weeks back, channel 101 (BBC1) has vanished from the guide. Now 115, which was the national BBC1 HD has vanished. I have to now spend ages scrolling down to 801 to find BBC1 East Midlands HD.

    Anyone else with this issue?

    Even worse here in the grim South, I've just looked at my Sky Go app. No
    BBC channel, HD or SD, 1, 2, 3 ,4 etc of any description to be found !

    I know the stream that was BBC 1 HD England and was mapped to 115, today
    was converted to BBC 1 HD South East, so that'll be why that's gone.
    You'll find it missing on the actual box too.

    I'll inject a complaint/query via my 'portal' into the Sky empire.................

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  • From Brian Gaff@21:1/5 to Mark Carver on Wed Feb 22 10:09:57 2023
    Sounds like everyone is confused by the BBCs odd way of doing stuff. Cannot
    say I blame them really, the BBC do seem to have a lack of logic and transparent information enough ahead of changes to allow people to get
    things sorted.
    I mean any organisation who can call their new HQ the Tea Factory, has to
    be bonkers.

    Brian

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    On 21/02/2023 18:12, Tweed wrote:
    This mainly aimed at Mark Carver, who seems to be I the same boat as me
    with the Sky Go programme guide. (Inputs welcome from others!)

    As we discovered a few weeks back, channel 101 (BBC1) has vanished from
    the
    guide. Now 115, which was the national BBC1 HD has vanished. I have to
    now
    spend ages scrolling down to 801 to find BBC1 East Midlands HD.

    Anyone else with this issue?

    Even worse here in the grim South, I've just looked at my Sky Go app. No
    BBC channel, HD or SD, 1, 2, 3 ,4 etc of any description to be found !

    I know the stream that was BBC 1 HD England and was mapped to 115, today
    was converted to BBC 1 HD South East, so that'll be why that's gone.
    You'll find it missing on the actual box too.

    I'll inject a complaint/query via my 'portal' into the Sky empire.................

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  • From Java Jive@21:1/5 to Brian Gaff on Wed Feb 22 12:01:38 2023
    On 22/02/2023 10:09, Brian Gaff wrote:

    Sounds like everyone is confused by the BBCs odd way of doing stuff. Cannot say I blame them really, the BBC do seem to have a lack of logic and transparent information enough ahead of changes to allow people to get
    things sorted.

    Yes, many things about the BBC are illogical and inconsistent. For
    example, the first two episodes of the rerun of "Edge Of Darkness" were broadcast as a single combined episode of 1 hour, but the next two
    episodes apparently will be broadcast as two episodes each of half an
    hour. In other series reruns, some episodes of series are rebroadcast
    as SD as in the original, but others are rebroadcast as HD. None of
    these are the end of the world, but they are bloody irritating
    nonetheless. WTF do they do things like that?

    I mean any organisation who can call their new HQ the Tea Factory, has to be bonkers.

    Well, yes, especially as tea is grown, not manufactured ... Rather
    reminiscent of the "Spaghetti Farm" documentary, only that was a
    deliberate April Fool's Day spoof, and not intended to be serious.

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  • From Woody@21:1/5 to Java Jive on Wed Feb 22 12:34:03 2023
    On Wed 22/02/2023 12:01, Java Jive wrote:
    On 22/02/2023 10:09, Brian Gaff wrote:

    Sounds like everyone is confused by the BBCs odd way of doing stuff.
    Cannot
    say I blame them really, the BBC do seem to have a lack of logic and
    transparent information enough ahead of changes to allow people to get
    things sorted.

    Yes, many things about the BBC are illogical and inconsistent.  For
    example, the first two episodes of the rerun of "Edge Of Darkness" were broadcast as a single combined episode of 1 hour, but the next two
    episodes apparently will be broadcast as two episodes each of half an
    hour.  In other series reruns, some episodes of series are rebroadcast
    as SD as in the original, but others are rebroadcast as HD.  None of
    these are the end of the world, but they are bloody irritating
    nonetheless.  WTF do they do things like that?

       I mean any organisation who can call their new HQ the Tea Factory,
    has to
    be bonkers.

    Well, yes, especially as tea is grown, not manufactured ... Rather reminiscent of the "Spaghetti Farm" documentary, only that was a
    deliberate April Fool's Day spoof, and not intended to be serious.


    Er, Edge of Darkness episodes 1 and 2 started at 22h00 and finished at
    23h40 so hardly a concatenation into one?

    I think this may be the first ever re-showing. Part of the later
    episodes where filmed inside the hydro-electric power station at
    Dinorwic in North Wales - now known as 'Electric Mountain'. They
    finished filming there about a month before I went there as part of a
    team installing a new radio system.

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  • From Mark Carver@21:1/5 to Woody on Wed Feb 22 12:43:47 2023
    On 22/02/2023 12:34, Woody wrote:
    On Wed 22/02/2023 12:01, Java Jive wrote:
    On 22/02/2023 10:09, Brian Gaff wrote:

    Sounds like everyone is confused by the BBCs odd way of doing stuff.
    Cannot
    say I blame them really, the BBC do seem to have a lack of logic and
    transparent information enough ahead of changes to allow people to get
    things sorted.

    Yes, many things about the BBC are illogical and inconsistent. For
    example, the first two episodes of the rerun of "Edge Of Darkness"
    were broadcast as a single combined episode of 1 hour, but the next
    two episodes apparently will be broadcast as two episodes each of
    half an hour.  In other series reruns, some episodes of series are
    rebroadcast as SD as in the original, but others are rebroadcast as
    HD.  None of these are the end of the world, but they are bloody
    irritating nonetheless.  WTF do they do things like that?

       I mean any organisation who can call their new HQ the Tea
    Factory, has to
    be bonkers.

    Well, yes, especially as tea is grown, not manufactured ... Rather
    reminiscent of the "Spaghetti Farm" documentary, only that was a
    deliberate April Fool's Day spoof, and not intended to be serious.


    Er, Edge of Darkness episodes 1 and 2 started at 22h00 and finished at
    23h40 so hardly a concatenation into one?

    I think this may be the first ever re-showing.

    No, it's certainly been repeated at least once since the original Tx,

    According to IMDb all six episodes each ran for between 50 to 55 mins on original Tx (Nov/Dec 1985)

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  • From Jeff Layman@21:1/5 to Mark Carver on Wed Feb 22 14:55:23 2023
    On 22/02/2023 12:43, Mark Carver wrote:
    On 22/02/2023 12:34, Woody wrote:

    Er, Edge of Darkness episodes 1 and 2 started at 22h00 and finished at
    23h40 so hardly a concatenation into one?

    I think this may be the first ever re-showing.

    No, it's certainly been repeated at least once since the original Tx,

    I've got a recording of the series from BBC4. The first episode was on 30/06/2014.

    According to IMDb all six episodes each ran for between 50 to 55 mins on original Tx (Nov/Dec 1985)

    My recordings vary from 51 - 55 minutes.

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  • From Java Jive@21:1/5 to Woody on Wed Feb 22 14:20:50 2023
    On 22/02/2023 12:34, Woody wrote:

    On Wed 22/02/2023 12:01, Java Jive wrote:

    On 22/02/2023 10:09, Brian Gaff wrote:

    Sounds like everyone is confused by the BBCs odd way of doing stuff.
    Cannot
    say I blame them really, the BBC do seem to have a lack of logic and
    transparent information enough ahead of changes to allow people to get
    things sorted.

    Yes, many things about the BBC are illogical and inconsistent.  For
    example, the first two episodes of the rerun of "Edge Of Darkness"
    were broadcast as a single combined episode of

    ... yes, my mistake: 1h 42m ...

    but the next
    two episodes apparently will be broadcast as two episodes each of

    ... ditto 50m.

      In other series reruns, some episodes of series are
    rebroadcast as SD as in the original, but others are rebroadcast as
    HD.  None of these are the end of the world, but they are bloody
    irritating nonetheless.  WTF do they do things like that?

    Er, Edge of Darkness episodes 1 and 2 started at 22h00 and finished at
    23h40 so hardly a concatenation into one?

    Yes, I noted merely the difference in programming and didn't bother to
    check actual running times. The point still stands though: why two
    episodes in one programme last week, but two episodes in two programmes
    this week? It's inconsistent and illogical.

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