mikerr wrote:Recording the red button (301) would be great, although I use VM TiVo to record the F1 in HD these days.
Surely your VM TIvo can't manage to record the F1 Forum though can it? Or does it have a channel number on a Virgin Tivo?
mikerr wrote:Recording the red button (301) would be great, although I use VM TiVo to record the F1 in HD these days.
millsb wrote:Pete77 wrote:
Predictably those who like everything have been completely selfish and are trying to deny those of us who like to only record the race the opportunity to do this because as total F1holics they seem totally unable to conceive why anyone would not have another three hours a week to give to the cause.
The BBC has just gone to the trouble from the start of this season of splitting the race in to a different program from the qualifying after originally only having had one program name for everything. In my view it would be an extremely retrograde step if the AltEPG tried to circumvent this.
I think you are being totally unfair in your criticism here. Graham went to some length to solicit opinion on this topic and until your post no one had expressed any preference for keeping the three series separate. You are of course welcome to your opinion but please don't accuse those who are investing considerable time in getting the altepg service up and running of being selfish or evil.
mrtickle wrote:I agree, and stand by my opinion that It's preferable to delete from ToDo than to have to set up multiple SPs.
Pete77 wrote:mrtickle wrote:I agree, and stand by my opinion that It's preferable to delete from ToDo than to have to set up multiple SPs.
So you have to set up Multiple SPs only the once but those of us who only want to record the race would have to delete 40 items from the ToDo list a year in 20 different weeks. So I take it that your suggestion is preferable only for those who like to record absolutely everything F1
mrtickle wrote:Yes, given the choice of a user missing a programme they might have wanted or having too much in the ToDo list, the latter is the lesser of the two evils. Thought I'd made my view clear.
Pete77 wrote:On a much more positive note the AltEPG guys have now added listings for Freeview channel 301 making it possible to record the F1 Forum on your Tivo from a Freeview box for the first time. And this program does already have its own name of F1 Forum and hence its own Season Pass and/or its own Wishlist options.
Pete77 wrote:mrtickle wrote:Why not admit that you only care about what is actually convenient for you.
mrtickle wrote:That's a reasonable idea, although deleting from the to-do list is ALWAYS going to be far more reliable than hoping the right thing appears to match a Wishlist. For that reason I personally would not want to trust the Wishlist if I was a viewer, and I definitely don't want to be responsible for having to remember to hand-fix the data in such a way, knowing that someone is relying on such a Wishlist, because of the sheer quantity of other guide data every day. Keeping a basic service going is far too much work already without nice cool things like that
Last year there were only two BBC1 programmes each race, the practice sessions were on red button so didn't appear in the Season Pass so the issue didn't really arise.
mrtickle wrote:It needs someone to manually edit it every time. Someone who recently joined as an Editor perhaps (hint!) may want to add "Race" each time?
mrtickle wrote:This is what we've got for this weekend:
2012 Australian Grand Prix: First Practice
2012 Australian Grand Prix: Second Practice
2012 Australian Grand Prix: Third Practice
2012 Australian Grand Prix: Final Practice
2012 Australian Grand Prix Qualifying
Australian Grand Prix Qualifying Highlights
2012 Australian Grand Prix
Australian Grand Prix
2012 Australian Grand Prix: Highlights
The ones that don't start "2012" are the BBC programmes. I gave them season and episode numbers in a desperate attempt to sort the list, otherwise it's a nightmare to wade through. Note that Sky aren't even consistent, there's no colon in the Qualifying programme title.
There's no guarantee that they'll carry on the same. Last year all the BBC ones had a standard format:
The X Grand Prix Live (sometimes with, sometimes without a separator hyphen)
The X Grand Prix Re-run
Milhouse wrote:Fair enough - I guess I was hoping that there may be a mechanism planned (or being thought about) that could update descriptions according to some basic rules but appreciate this is more effort and just icing on the cake.
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