Blue button with new EPG box - Sky+ HD

unhappybunny · 07-11-2009, 14:23

Is anyone else finding this annoying?

You area watching BBC one, you type in 654 to get Bid TV. When you press the blue button it goes to BBC one, and with each consecutive press starts going through the favourites from BBC one upwards.. whereas before it would go from the favourites from Bid TV upwards.

Does anyone else find this annoying?

hitachi · 07-11-2009, 14:25

Just go up or down 1 channel before using the blue button.

Chronik · 07-11-2009, 14:29

Yes the NEW! Blue button is terrible idea, wish they go back to old system on that..

Doddie · 07-11-2009, 22:05

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Originally Posted by unhappybunny

Is anyone else finding this annoying?

You area watching BBC one, you type in 654 to get Bid TV. When you press the blue button it goes to BBC one, and with each consecutive press starts going through the favourites from BBC one upwards.. whereas before it would go from the favourites from Bid TV upwards.

Does anyone else find this annoying?

I just had HD installed yesterday and i'm not yet on the new software, but if you mean the first press of the blue button acts like a dummied down version of 'view previously viewed channel' then i would be all for that.

e.g. If your scenario was reversed... you were watching 654, then typed 101 during an add break... if pressing the blue button offered 654 as the first choice, what a great compromise that would be for what many (not all) people that have been asking for... a "go to the last viewed channel" button.

Whilst i admit it's not a perfect solution, i defy anyone to tell me that they have never changed channel during an ad-break only to forget the channel number they were originally on... resulting in a frantic search for the last viewed channel number (in this example 654) before the ad-break ends!

Thats said, if the blue button always starts at 101 then that's a different matter!

kwangomango · 07-11-2009, 23:26

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Originally Posted by unhappybunny

Does anyone else find this annoying?

Yes, very annoying. I appreciate that that the 'Last' channel feature is a good idea but it was obviously implemented by a bunch of monkeys who didn't realise the effect it would have. After it switches to the previous channel, the blue button should jump back to your current channel. Better still they should have kept the blue button as it was, and used the yellow button for previous channel.
I don't think usability was high on the priority list when they designed the new interface.

HUP · 08-11-2009, 00:54

omg i know exactly what your talking about, i find the blue button really annoying now. kwangomango is right they should have really made the previous channel the yellow button, i remember that on the old epg every time i pressed the yellow button it gave me the same pointless message all the time, and now they got rid of it and it seems the yellow button doesn't do anything.

carnoch04 · 08-11-2009, 01:33

Sky really can't win! There used to be a lengthy thread on one of these forums demanding a "last channel" button. Now it's there, it's "really annoying".

It's excellent when trying to follow sport on two different channels.

Honestly, some of the complaints about the EPG are ridiculous:

"the sound continues when I am on the EPG" -- Press mute!

"the blue button takes me to the wrong place" - Press Ch+/- first.

"Too many presses to exit and the Sky button is too far away" - Get a life!

kwangomango · 08-11-2009, 07:23

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Originally Posted by carnoch04

Sky really can't win! There used to be a lengthy thread on one of these forums demanding a "last channel" button. Now it's there, it's "really annoying".

That's not the point at all. The 'Last Channel' feature is a good one but they have unnecessarily messed up the way favourites work. It needn't have been like this as there were two alternative solutions which would have been just fine. They made a terrible design decision and having to CH up and then down is just a workaround that highlights this. You would also erase any live pause buffer you had.

There are some nice new features in the new EPG but they have certainly compromised usability in many areas. Sure we just need to get on with it but that doesn't mean people can't voice this as a perfectly valid opinion.

FOXZFACE · 09-11-2009, 09:54

I agree, it's a great addition, but in the wrong place.

timey · 09-11-2009, 11:54

I like it and have no problem with it.

07-11-2009, 14:23	#1
unhappybunny Forum Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: UK Services: Not Tiscali any more Posts: 206	Blue button with new EPG box Is anyone else finding this annoying? You area watching BBC one, you type in 654 to get Bid TV. When you press the blue button it goes to BBC one, and with each consecutive press starts going through the favourites from BBC one upwards.. whereas before it would go from the favourites from Bid TV upwards. Does anyone else find this annoying?

07-11-2009, 14:25	#2
hitachi Forum Member Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 121	Just go up or down 1 channel before using the blue button.

07-11-2009, 14:29	#3
Chronik Forum Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Uk Services: SKY+ Posts: 54	Yes the NEW! Blue button is terrible idea, wish they go back to old system on that..

08-11-2009, 00:54	#6
HUP Forum Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Bradford Services: Blueyonder Posts: 19	omg i know exactly what your talking about, i find the blue button really annoying now. kwangomango is right they should have really made the previous channel the yellow button, i remember that on the old epg every time i pressed the yellow button it gave me the same pointless message all the time, and now they got rid of it and it seems the yellow button doesn't do anything.

08-11-2009, 01:33	#7
carnoch04 Forum Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: West Highlands Services: Sky+HD, btinternet Posts: 1,623	Sky really can't win! There used to be a lengthy thread on one of these forums demanding a "last channel" button. Now it's there, it's "really annoying". It's excellent when trying to follow sport on two different channels. Honestly, some of the complaints about the EPG are ridiculous: "the sound continues when I am on the EPG" -- Press mute! "the blue button takes me to the wrong place" - Press Ch+/- first. "Too many presses to exit and the Sky button is too far away" - Get a life!

09-11-2009, 09:54	#9
FOXZFACE Forum Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 116	I agree, it's a great addition, but in the wrong place.

09-11-2009, 11:54	#10
timey Forum Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Pictland Services: Sky+ HD (Samsung James Bond version), Sony Bravia 40" LCD, Freeview Posts: 16,211	I like it and have no problem with it.