AltEPG

With the official service now over, I'm asking myself "when should I move across to the AltEPG?" Is it tonight, tomorrow or next week?

I have guide data to 13th July (well for some channels!), and my TiVo is networked.

I don't want to move across too soon and add pressure onto the service, but then again, I don't want to wait too long as my existing guide data will become out of date (schedule changes) or will run out for some channels in 7-14 days.

My plan was "the later the better", with a view to cutting and pasting the todo list from tivoweb which gets me to the end of next week at least, and setting manual recordings after that if it came to it. But my TiVo being "boat anchored" wasn't a nice feeling at all today. I'm now planning on doing mine next weekend, but I'll mull it over during the week.

My plan was also the later the better, but I was stupidly focussed on the 'guide data until' stat giving me a false sense of security.

Brain belatedly engaged, realising that actually, terrestrial channels would last at best to 'last successful call date + 7 days' I realised that a switch was needed this week, as after Friday 1st, my terrestrial channel data would be toast.

Yep. I'm doing it now.

I did mine last weekend just in time for the F1.

After sorting through my wishlists I misunderstood that clear and delete everything does in fact delete wish list!

I've now gone from over 100 season passes/ wish list to about 15.

My only disaapointment is that the Tracker module doesn't currently work. But I'm glad we've still got guide data!