How do you know whats on telly?

[hairyben]

I mean, when you have several hundred channels?

Why has someone not designed a customisable whats-on-telly site yet, something that recognises listed favourite programs, genre's, content and keywords and uses simple programming like amazon to suggest other stuff you may like?

[10JH]

I could see a use in that kind of service.

Personally I haven't seen anything that does that.

The only slight problem I could see is that there are a lot of really rubbish channels. I find I only really watch a couple of channels on Sky, so have these favourited on the blue button, therefore might not need what you suggested.

[thelight]

Doesnt digiguide do this?

[B19GRR]

I'm currently favouring http://www.zingzing.co.uk/tvlistings/ easy to customise - OK, I only have poorboy freesat so on a few channels worth remembering - and it's quick, unlike tvguide.co.uk!

Cheers,
Rob

[goforbroke]

B19GRR said:

I'm currently favouring http://www.zingzing.co.uk/tvlistings/ easy to customise - OK, I only have poorboy freesat so on a few channels worth remembering - and it's quick, unlike tvguide.co.uk!

Cheers,
Rob

That is excellent, nice find.

[RizzoTheRat]

I use Digiguide. It's a few quid a year but can be set up with all sorts of reminders and flags based on keywords, genres, etc, plus it has decent program descriptions.

http://getdigiguide.com/?p=1&r=26665

Edited by RizzoTheRat on Friday 23 April 11:48

[HiRich]

Is there anything (other than digiguide) that has the equivalent of eBay Favourite Searches? So:

• I liked Sons of Anarchy S1 on FiveUSA
• So I set up a search for "Sons Of Anarchy" + "Series 2" on "Freeview" (because it could appear on a different channel)
• When detected, it informs me (email?)
• I can then mark it up, to remind me at perhaps 24 hours notice.

[Spiritual_Beggar]

Sky TV guide?

http://tv.sky.com/tvlistings

[cs02rm0]

hairyben said:

I mean, when you have several hundred channels?

Why has someone not designed a customisable whats-on-telly site yet, something that recognises listed favourite programs, genre's, content and keywords and uses simple programming like amazon to suggest other stuff you may like?

Stacks of people have.

[Devilstreak]

Another vote for tv catch up. Great that it works on iphone with only like a 15 second delay too.

[tankplanker]

Radio Times website is customisable for your favourite channels and free. Isn't as good as Digiguide in that you can't set up alerts for recurring series, find repeats and so on.

[Truckosaurus]

+1 for DigiGuide.

Pretty simple user interface, has all the same descriptions as in the Sky on-screen display, the search is good.

The only feature I find it lacks is to be able to limit 'favourites' down to specific series which would help for shows in syndication so several different series are shown concurrently.

I just spend 5mins checking through it each day and then print off things marked as favourite for the following couple of days.

[turbotongue]

http://www.tvguide.co.uk/

[miniman]

iPhone and Sky+ app.

[condor]

I don't watch TV much anyway - if it's sport that I want to watch then I'll look up TV guardian that seems to do things in a logical way. I used to use 'on the box', but stopped when they changed it about a year ago.
For anything else, I either know that the BBC news in on at 6pm and regional news at 6.30pm - anything else I'm not too fussed about. If I miss anything can always use the i-player service.
Late evening, I 'll just channel hop until it comes up with something of interest.

[va1o]

Windows 7 Media Center TV Guide works quite well for me with Freesat



Can group by category and run searches etc.

[EDLT]

I just buy a Radio Times. Its still much easier to browse than any of the EPGs/websites I've used.