Hi All,

I am a new sky subscriber after being with VM (well, Telewest/BY) for a long 
long time.
Some questions about the remote..

1. When using the mini guide to scroll up and down to see what is on, why 
can I not press the "i" button to find out what the program shown in the 
menu is about, instead of it skipping back to the program I am watching 
already and showing me that detail?

2. Why is there no "back" button so I can quickly flick between the current 
channel and the previous channel I was watching without having to remember 
the numbers (whish is still confusing me as I still remember the old VM 
numbers!)

Silly questions really, the service is great otherwise..

Steve

In , "SPG"
 wrote:
>I am a new sky subscriber after being with VM (well, Telewest/BY) for a long 
>long time.
>Some questions about the remote..

Which are answered in the FAQ, but anyway...

>1. When using the mini guide to scroll up and down to see what is on, why 
>can I not press the "i" button to find out what the program shown in the 
>menu is about, instead of it skipping back to the program I am watching 
>already and showing me that detail?

The mini guide is a very much smaller sub-set of data which has to fit
onto every transponder, so there isn't room for the synopses to be stored
in the data stream. The main EPG has a dedicated transponder which the
digibox tunes to and it contains all the guide data.

>2. Why is there no "back" button so I can quickly flick between the current 
>channel and the previous channel I was watching without having to remember 
>the numbers (whish is still confusing me as I still remember the old VM 
>numbers!)

That is the single most requested, and obviously missing, feature for over
nine years now. Sky stubbornly refuse to add it. Probably because it makes
it easier for the user to avoid adverts during advert breaks (if you are
old-fashioned enough to watch live TV), and we can't have that can we!

HTH

Mike Henry wrote:
> In , "SPG"
>  wrote:

>> 2. Why is there no "back" button so I can quickly flick between the current 
>> channel and the previous channel I was watching without having to remember 
>> the numbers (whish is still confusing me as I still remember the old VM 
>> numbers!)
> 
> That is the single most requested, and obviously missing, feature for over
> nine years now. Sky stubbornly refuse to add it. Probably because it makes
> it easier for the user to avoid adverts during advert breaks (if you are
> old-fashioned enough to watch live TV), and we can't have that can we!
> 

A year ago I noticed that the Australian version of Sky+ (FoxTel IQ) 
does have a back function as you describe it so presumably there is no 
reason ours can't, their backup button on the identical looking remote 
does this (the button is actually called back because everything has to 
be shortened !) if this button is pushed twice on the remote it will do 
this flick between current and previous channel, I keep checking to see 
if our version has been updated but it has not.

http://www.foxtel.com.au/FOXTELIQ/

Chris