[access-uk] Re: Sky Plus
- From: "Amro Bilal" <amro_bilal@xxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:00:54 -0000
MessageHi Steve, I saved a message you sent sometime ago on this subject and I
hope you don't mind me sending it to the group again. So, Sharon, please read
below and hope you find it helpful as I certainly did, just like all Steve's
contributions to this list!
Nutt says:
"OK, I'll try to answer this as best I can.
It is accessible in that you can set up programmes for recording, play them
back, set up series links, etc. What you can't do as a blind person, is to
set things up way in advance. The problem is that because you can't see the
EPG, you are never quite sure which programme is selected. But you can't
literally jump 24 hours. So if it is now 7:00 p.m., and you want to record
something tomorrow at 7:00 p.m., this is easy. But if you want to record
something at, say, 12:00 A.m. and it is now 7:00 p.m., this is more tricky,
simply because there is no sure way of moving from programme to programme.
If you press right arrow once, you may move to the next programme, but only
it would appear to me, if that programme is within the next half hour or so.
If the programme is longer, for example a film, it would take two jumps to
move to the next programme, and you are never sure whether you have jumped
one or two programmes, because you don't see the EPG.
Having said all this, if I want to "series link" coronation street, what I
do is to wait until 7:00 or there abouts on the night it is on at half past,
and then it is easy. You simply do this:
1. Press TV Guide.
2. Press 1 for all channels.
3. Press 103, or 963 if you want audio description and are not in London
for ITV1.
4. Press right arrow once. This is because you are highlighting the
current programme when you first land on the channel. So one right arrow,
will take us to 7:30.
5. Hit record.
6. Hit the Series Link button.
7. Press backup, until you hear the channel you were viewing again.
Now what happens is that the box will record every single episode of Coro,
until you delete the series link.
One final example. If you want to play back a program:
1. TV Guide.
2. Press 0 to enter the TV Planner.
3. Press the select key twice.
This will play the oldest programme you have recorded. So if you want the
most recent one, you would just press up arrow, then select once. If you
hear silence, you know you have gone into a programme for playing. If you
don't, you are on a scheduled recording, which won't play, because it hasn't
been recorded yet. If you get the silent treatment, because you are in a
programme, just press select or the play key to play it.
So yes, it is very, very accessible, apart from the fact that we can't see
the EPG. But I honestly wouldn't be without my Sky Plus box. Not only
that, but the sound quality is superior to the ordinary Sky boxes."
Sharon, this isn't in any way criticising you, but I think it's always a good
idea to search the lists archive. You don't know what you are missing! Though
I'd have to admit that I don't do it sometimes ;)
Cheers,
Amro
----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Nutt
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 9:01 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Sky Plus
Hi Sharon,
I am myself totally blind, and wouldn't be without my Sky Plus box. It's a
bit hit and miss, but certainly reasonably accessible, except for the EPG. My
wife is also blind, and we get on with it pretty well.
All the best
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-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
SHARON BOWELL
Sent: 30 January 2005 17:42
To: Access UK
Subject: [access-uk] Sky Plus
Hi,
We are thinking of changing over our sky box to a sky plus box.
I was wondering how user friendly they are, as my husband and I are both
totally blind. I do have sighted children, but don't want to rely on them all
the time to change a channel or record something, etc.
Any guidance much appreciated.
Thanks, and sorry I seem to have posted to this group rather a lot over the
past week.
Sharon
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