Hands-on preview of the new Sky HD EPG

[Clare Newsome]

Click here for lots of lovely screen shots of the new Sky HD EPG, due to launch soon...

 

[SpiceWeasel]

Looks pretty swanky, looks like a doddle to use as well.

I've only got basic sky at the moment, but looks like I might have to move soonish as the landlord wants to sell the house. So I might be tempted to go for the hd box, but depends what deals are available. Im hope they will lower the price especially with the recent freesat launch.

 

[Anonymous]

Looks great! I especially like the ability to highlight all native-HD stuff, and the search functionality will be very useful! Its about time they added the in-vision screen in the corner. Looking forward to this.

 

[Anonymous]

Looks good....the current EPG is really old fashioned, the new one seems very functional which is great (although it does not look as sexy as BTvisions EPG).

 

[bf1]

Any idea on dates when this will be downloaded to Sky boxes?

 

[bf1]

I wonder if the update will resolve the awful performance of the fast forward / rewind experienced on the HD box.

Not only does it fail to forward / rewind at 30x speed it also skips a couple of minutes when in that process.

 

[timwileman]

maybe you could do a mini super test on the EPGs of sky, freesat,virgin and freeview ????