Christmas TV Listings

daveirl

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mike65

Once upon a time I would rush out for the Xmas double isuess of RTE Guide and Radio Times, now I dread the whole Christmas TV
thing...

>edit Just downloaded that digiguide thing and hey its cool!, but if I have to pay to register in a month I'll not bother, I hardly watch telly since utv flat-rate arrived.

Mike.

Makaveli

Originally posted by mike65
Once upon a time I would rush out for the Xmas double isuess of RTE Guide

I still do that and then I go to the page that lists all the films that will be on for the two weeks and I mark the ones I plan to watch with a highlighter.
Pretty sad.

Kali

I see Network 2 actually advertised that woeful piece of dog-turd Escape from New York with Kurt Russell as part of their Christmas line-up, things are getting very very bad

DMC

Originally posted by mike65

>edit Just downloaded that digiguide thing and hey its cool!, but if I have to pay to register in a month I'll not bother, I hardly watch telly since utv flat-rate arrived.

Mike.

I think its excellent value, myself. I've been using it for a few years now, and I signed up for 5 years, only cost £25stg and pound for pound, (or euro for euro ) it has been the best thing I have bought on the Interweb, in terms of usefullness and reminding me of programmes to watch. Like, how many Radio Times or RTÉ Guide's will you buy for that price?? Every programme has far more detail for it than any listings magazine, and it even doesnt have a knitting pattern or cookery section

I'm hope I dont sound like I'm whoreing the product, but it really is great, I cant recommend it enough.

DMC

Right..........

Somethings amiss here........

FILM: It's a Wonderful Life
Channel: TV3
Date: Wednesday 25th December 2002
Time: 9:45 am to 12:15 pm (starting in 16 days)
Duration: 2 hours and 30 minutes.

then......

FILM: It's a Wonderful Life
Channel: Network 2
Date: Wednesday 25th December 2002
Time: 2:05 pm to 4:40 pm (starting in 16 days)
Duration: 2 hours and 35 minutes.

and then!

FILM: It's a Wonderful Life
Channel: BBC 2 Northern Ireland
Date: Wednesday 25th December 2002
Time: 5:50 pm to 7:55 pm (starting in 16 days)
Duration: 2 hours and 5 minutes.

I can think of a new channel!

"It's a Wonderful Life" 24 :rolleyes:

Makaveli

God you could spend all day watching it.
That's the thing about Christmas, the same thing is usually on two different channels on the same day.
Examples: Titanic when it premiered[sp]. Chicken Run is the same this year.
That's all I can remember.

superfly

cant get from behind firewall

daveirl

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ciano

Wow! Thats a cool application! Is there any way for it to just give you a film guide instead of the full daily listing?

daveirl

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Thanx 4 The Fish

Can't wait to see that TBA, seems to be on alot of chnnels this christmas. Funny that it is a different length on different channels.....

daveirl

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mike65

I've been browsing the guide and I'll be watching less TV than ever, just about every film is a repeat, they've got Titanic on RTE 1 again!
Not to mention all the tradition flicks for ther umteenth time. And I fear I spotted a Only Fool and Horses Xmas Special, sigh

Chicken Run could be the highlight.

Mike.

sceptre

Originally posted by DMC
FILM: It's a Wonderful Life

Good, good - it's been a few years since I saw it last. Wonderfully dark (even the ending isn't too sugary). I practically applauded the year C4 showed Kind Hearts and Coronets on Christmas day.

DMC

Originally posted by ciano
Wow! Thats a cool application! Is there any way for it to just give you a film guide instead of the full daily listing?

Do what I do. Highlight each different genre with a different colour. For me, Blue = Sport , Brown = Films, Red = News and so on. Do that in Edit -> Edit -> Category markers. Even give one programme a special colour, such as The Simpsons. Also, click on the channel's logo, and it gives you a newspaper style listing for that channel.

DMC

Oh, and the Christmas editions of the Radio Times and TV Times will be on sale tomorrow. I'll still get them! The one thing about Digiguide is I cant bring it into the lav!

Mossy Monk

i downloaded it again last night. it seems to have vanished from the last time i had it. and it is great. a billion times better than the RTÉ Guide which i fear i'll be getting anyway because of its portability

irishgeo

yeah digiguide is great. Now all i need to do is to find a way to watch 2 different channels at the same time.

I think some blank videos could be in order for over the christmas period.

ciano

Originally posted by DMC
Do what I do. Highlight each different genre with a different colour. For me, Blue = Sport , Brown = Films, Red = News and so on. Do that in Edit -> Edit -> Category markers. Even give one programme a special colour, such as The Simpsons. Also, click on the channel's logo, and it gives you a newspaper style listing for that channel.

Nice one DMC! That seems to work well :cool:

Boberto

Digiguide is great, i got it there a few months ago. Only 11 euro per year, way cheaper than 52 tv guides.