Upc replay tv

macker22

Has anyone heard anything about upc replay tv and wat it does and wen in will be made available

icdg

The idea is that it is a "backwards EPG", that you will be able to go backwards in the EPG and play programmes.

UPC's sister company in Switzerland, Cablecom offers such a service. Seems to only work with certain SRF, ARD, ZDF, and ORF channels. You can replay certain programmes for 30 hours. With some subscription levels you can do so for 7 days.

macker22

Sounds good any idea wen it will be available in Ireland

Cushie Butterfield

No doubt it will be introduced in January to coincide with the next price rise, or at least to coincide with a future price rise

Joo0

icdg wrote: »

The idea is that it is a "backwards EPG", that you will be able to go backwards in the EPG and play programmes.

UPC's sister company in Switzerland, Cablecom offers such a service. Seems to only work with certain SRF, ARD, ZDF, and ORF channels. You can replay certain programmes for 30 hours. With some subscription levels you can do so for 7 days.

Do Sky already offer a similar service?

icdg

Nope.

But really to me it's just catchup TV done with a different interface. (It has the potential to be so much more - with the right system you could record every channel and offer every programme for seven days - but two things stand in the way - resources and rights)

Catchup TV is something that greatly separates Sky and UPC. Only the TV3 Player and a very small selection of Sky content is common to both. UPC has players for RTE, TG4, Eurosport, Discovery and MGM while on Sky you'll find Sky (obviously!), All4, and UKTV.

Joo0

icdg wrote: »

Nope.

But really to me it's just catchup TV done with a different interface. (It has the potential to be so much more - with the right system you could record every channel and offer every programme for seven days - but two things stand in the way - resources and rights)

Catchup TV is something that greatly separates Sky and UPC. Only the TV3 Player and a very small selection of Sky content is common to both. UPC has players for RTE, TG4, Eurosport, Discovery and MGM while on Sky you'll find Sky (obviously!), All4, and UKTV.

I was thinking of the Sky movies restart live movies system that they are bring in. It's already offered in Germany. So much more offerd on Sky 1,000 plus movies from Sky movies and all the Sky Atlantic content. While it may be a great system on UPC I don't see it working on any Sky channels. Rte, tv3 utvi etc would be my guess.

MarkK

Joo0 wrote: »

Do Sky already offer a similar service?

Freesat does on their newer boxes for some channels.
In effect it is just a link to play stuff from the BBC iPlayer, ITV Player, All4 and Demand 5 apps which are already installed on the Freesat box.

http://www.freesat.co.uk/get-freesat/freesat-plus-with-freetime

macker22

Little bit off topic but did anyone see sky on demand section on upc now has sky entertainment, sports and full movies section

Wabbit Ears

Was just gonna post that. Need to be a sky movies or sky sports subscriber to view the relevant stuff but it's nice to see it. Also noticed it's been growing over the last week. Look like they are building the service as it's still relatively buried in the catalogue.

icdg

The Sky Movies section at any rate has been there quite a while, though last time I looked it was a pale shadow of what is available to Sky Digital customers.

Wabbit Ears

It was indeed but now its expanded out into different sections and, at a guess, there at least a couple hundred titles as opposed to a half dozen or so a week ago.

macker22

Sky 1,living and arts are now available on horizon go in and out of the home

Joo0

macker22 wrote: »

Sky 1,living and arts are now available on horizon go in and out of the home

Is skysports news now available outside the home?

macker22

Ye you can watch sky, living, arts,news and sports news out of the home

macker22

Has anyone heard anything else about this

7upfree

macker22 wrote: »

Ye you can watch sky, living, arts,news and sports news out of the home

Looks like they're the only ones. I tried Horizon Go the other day and only six channels worked. Seems at odds with their "use it anywhere" campaign.

macker22

It's been 6 months now has any heard of any new channels becoming available on replay and start over tv

patrickmooney

Or fast forwarding? Not being able to control playback makes replay on Virgin pointless.

tricky2beat

You can skip the Ads on Vodafone's Restart and 7 day catch up TV. I think they have about 50+ channel with Restart but its not on every single show.

7upfree

MarkK wrote: »

Freesat does on their newer boxes for some channels.
In effect it is just a link to play stuff from the BBC iPlayer, ITV Player, All4 and Demand 5 apps which are already installed on the Freesat box.

http://www.freesat.co.uk/get-freesat/freesat-plus-with-freetime

Don't think you can use that outside the UK.......