(OT) Satellite TV Guide

SeaSide

I've been buying the Sunday Times because it was the only one with a TV guide that listed the freeview channels (BBC I, II, III and IV and ITV 1, 2, 3, 4 and Film 4) but its starting to really annoy me.

Can anyone suggest an alternative weekly guide?

Ulsterman 1690

The Radio Times (available in the Republic if one looks hard enough) is pretty good but even up here it isint always possible to get a copy before theyre sold out since they seem to limit their print run to about 50 copies :rolleyes:

byte

Handy configurable online guides worth looking at:
www.tvguide.co.uk
www.tvtv.co.uk

Downloadable, and more customisable would be www.digiguide.com which I've seen recommended here a few times

Paper-wise, I just get the one that comes free with the Sunday Times, as you do now.

mike2084

I get the Radio Times here. Just ask your newsagent to order and keep it for you. Thats what I did.

watty

Digiguide from Gypsy Media on PC

cormacl

www.tvbrowser.org

.. free java-based tool (runs on windows, Mac & Linux) that hooks into the Radio Times XML service and provides a nice UI for navigating the programme lists.

standbyme

I noticed The Irish Daily Mail on Sunday at the brother's had ITV CH's as i was wanting to see what time a prog was on & i think the BBC ch's were there as well, but will find out! As i used to get the Mrr but changed the colour on page & is now annoying :mad:

DMC

As mentioned, Digiguide is the best around... entirely customisable to the channels you want...

Here's a screenie of my line up...

standbyme

DMC wrote:

As mentioned, Digiguide is the best around... entirely customisable to the channels you want...

Here's a screenie of my line up...

Oh yeah, digiguide is the best for updates in telly shows & when the next ep. is on. As that is the free version i use, how much/or do you have to pay for that service?

byte wrote:

Paper-wise, I just get the one that comes free with the Sunday Times, as you do now.

I asked my brother (who had a copy) on the Daily Irish Mail on Sunday & he told me it has 6 pages for each day, inc. all BBC/ITV ch's Satellite-Ent/Sports/Radio

Hopefully that sorts out: you can used digiguide for the pc viewing & paperwise you can get one of the publications mentioned as i will as i was using the sun before i saw the extra ch's with the mail

DMC

standbyme wrote:

Oh yeah, digiguide is the best for updates in telly shows & when the next ep. is on. As that is the free version i use, how much/or do you have to pay for that service?

Its £9.99 per year, which is the price of 10 weeks worth of the Radio Times, or an equivalent amount of Sunday papers.

There is a 30 day free trial.

byte

cormacl wrote:

www.tvbrowser.org

.. free java-based tool (runs on windows, Mac & Linux) that hooks into the Radio Times XML service and provides a nice UI for navigating the programme lists.

Doesn't look too bad. Seems better than FreeGuide which I used to use. Functionality pretty poor compared to Digiguide though.

I might check out TVBrowser though...

ulsterman 1916

byte wrote: »

Handy configurable online guides worth looking at:
www.tvguide.co.uk
www.tvtv.co.uk

Downloadable, and more customisable would be www.digiguide.com which I've seen recommended here a few times

nice one m8.
been looking for this info for a while

Cheers

nava

byte wrote: »

Downloadable, and more customisable would be www.digiguide.com which I've seen recommended here a few times

Hi

Just notice that I'm missing BBC1 from my listings. Is anyone else having the same problem?

kaisersose77

as mentioned above, tv-browser.org is great and free

Even lets me set up recordings on my dreambox sat receiver

nava

kaisersose77 wrote: »

as mentioned above, tv-browser.org is great and free

Even lets me set up recordings on my dreambox sat receiver

Are you talking about http://www.tvbrowser.org the website is in German and I don't see any UK/IE channels listed in the website

Or is it me doing something wrong?

Thanks

Drag00n79

Digiguide ftw. It's search functions puts it ahead of anything else.

byte

nava wrote: »

Are you talking about http://www.tvbrowser.org the website is in German and I don't see any UK/IE channels listed in the website

Or is it me doing something wrong?

Thanks

Is this link of any help?
http://wiki.tvbrowser.org/index.php/TV-Browser_for_international_Users

christo82

standbyme wrote: »

I noticed The Irish Daily Mail on Sunday at the brother's had ITV CH's as i was wanting to see what time a prog was on & i think the BBC ch's were there as well, but will find out! As i used to get the Mrr but changed the colour on page & is now annoying :mad:

I buy this every Sunday. Shows all BBCs and ITVs and Film Four. 3 Large well laid out pages per day of TV, listing all Sky's Movie Channels as well seperately.

kaisersose77

nava wrote: »

Are you talking about http://www.tvbrowser.org the website is in German and I don't see any UK/IE channels listed in the website

Or is it me doing something wrong?

Thanks

Yes install the latest version, i think it has the radio times plugin built in, so you just pick United Kingdom as country when you run it first and it'll list all the channels and you select the ones you want to be displayed from then on. It has a search function aswell. Don't know what more anyone could need out of a tv guide program and the fact its free makes it even better.

737tx

Good guide for Irish and UK tv
http://www.rte.ie/aertel/170-01.html

Good guide for UK tv
http://www.itv.com/TVGuide/default.html

Good guide for EURO tv (satellite etc)
http://www.eurotv.com/scripts/eutvprog.cfm

Good site for all of the EU countries TV stations.
http://www.lyngsat-address.com/tv/Europe.html

standbyme

christo82 wrote: »

I buy this every Sunday. Shows all BBCs and ITVs and Film Four. 3 Large well laid out pages per day of TV, listing all Sky's Movie Channels as well seperately.

Pity there wasnt one with the paper(s) today? So got the Daily Post it had a 35pg special on The Broons 'Burns Night' just love The Broons & Oor Wullie As there are more than one Sun paper bought btwn others, i'll do for one week!

christo82

standbyme wrote: »

Pity there wasnt one with the paper(s) today? So got the Daily Post it had a 35pg special on The Broons 'Burns Night' just love The Broons & Oor Wullie As there are more than one Sun paper bought btwn others, i'll do for one week!

It was with mine.