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(April 2007)

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PT
Put The Telly On
Tumble Tower posted:
Sorry about that. Has the guy changed the photo? When I first saw the photo I thought it said Llandudno.

Anyhow, as far as my codes go, the last time I went through the Sky EPG was in February this year. At the time I allocated codes to as many channels as I could, and posted the list is on the TV Channels: A Shorthand Code thread (post 460) of Digital Spy Forums.

My reason for going through it again last Sunday (15 July) was to get an up-to-date list. Boy, hasn't the Sky EPG changed a bit in five months! Some channels have disappeared, e.g Discovery Wings (DW), Discovery Kids (DK), Solent TV (no code), and a few new ones have appeared. Why do they keep chopping and changing on Sky? It's a job keeping up to date it. It means having to review my codes every so often.


Look for the final time, NOBODY IS INTERESTED! LISTEN TO YOURSELF!
:-(
A former member
What is with coding the channels for? You can see it winds people up, not just here but on DS which you got banned for. Surley the message must have got through now?
PE
Pete Founding member
Tumble Tower posted:
Why do they keep chopping and changing on Sky? It's a job keeping up to date it. It means having to review my codes every so often.


I'd expect that's exactly why
AN
Ant
nok32uk posted:
Tumble Tower posted:
Sorry about that. Has the guy changed the photo? When I first saw the photo I thought it said Llandudno.

Anyhow, as far as my codes go, the last time I went through the Sky EPG was in February this year. At the time I allocated codes to as many channels as I could, and posted the list is on the TV Channels: A Shorthand Code thread (post 460) of Digital Spy Forums.

My reason for going through it again last Sunday (15 July) was to get an up-to-date list. Boy, hasn't the Sky EPG changed a bit in five months! Some channels have disappeared, e.g Discovery Wings (DW), Discovery Kids (DK), Solent TV (no code), and a few new ones have appeared. Why do they keep chopping and changing on Sky? It's a job keeping up to date it. It means having to review my codes every so often.


Look for the final time, NOBODY IS INTERESTED! LISTEN TO YOURSELF!

Indeed. Pee off.
JO
Jon
Tumble Tower posted:
The CBeebies Channel (Freeview 71, Sky 617, Virgin 702).
Otherwise known in my scheme of things as B6 (just let that drop, I don't want to discuss / explain that point any further here).

From your original post.
TT
Tumble Tower
On Digital Spy Forums, in the run-up to Xmas 2006, I used the codes in threads other than "TV Channels: A Shorthand Code". Here's an example of another note elsewhere on Digital Spy Forums where I used the codes.

Here's one user and another user had to say about that practice.
TT
Tumble Tower
plucky duck92 posted:
And what has this got to do with CBeebies presentation may I ask?


wells posted:
Tumble Tower posted:
The CBeebies Channel (Freeview 71, Sky 617, Virgin 702).
Otherwise known in my scheme of things as B6 (just let that drop, I don't want to discuss / explain that point any further here).

From your original post.


Well both of you, when I started this thread, I intended it to be for the general discussion of presentation on CBeebies. Just like we've got threads for the discussion of the idents on BBC One, and the new idents on BBC Two which launched in February this year. Recently I started a CBBC presentation thread, but that was closed within hours, so I suggested extending the scope of this thread to discussing presentation on both CBBC and CBeebies.

Unfortunately from the start of page 3, this thread seems to have magically metamorphosed into a thread for discussing TV channel codes, i.e. TV Forum's equivalent of the thread TV Channels: A Shorthand Code on Digital Spy Forums.
DA
David
onetrickpony posted:
What is with coding the channels for? You can see it winds people up, not just here but on DS which you got banned for. Surley the message must have got through now?


If you are 'wound up' by someone giving codes to channels then I think it may be you that has a problem [as well].
JO
Jonny
Tumble Tower posted:
Unfortunately from the start of page 3, this thread seems to have magically metamorphosed into a thread for discussing TV channel codes, i.e. TV Forum's equivalent of the thread TV Channels: A Shorthand Code on Digital Spy Forums.

How is this a discussion? You are talking to yourself and we are asking you (with increasing impatience) to stop.

Well I for one have grown tired of you; no longer shall I enter threads where 'Tumble Tower' has posted for the sake of my health and sanity.
TT
Tumble Tower
Nini posted:
Tumble Tower posted:
Going Back In Time To The Moment
The date is some Friday about half way through spring term 1981 (Feburary 1981).

I was at primary school. My class was watching a BBC Schools programme on BBC2. One which was originally scheduled for transmission on BBC1 the first week of term (January 1981, just after Xmas), but for some reason wanted, so Auntie rescheduled it for the said Friday morning in Feburary 1981 on BBC2.

That recheduling was a bad idea, had they only known what terror they had unleashed in some little mites' brain.


Nini posted:
Tumble Tower posted:
Someone came into the class, and the teacher started talking to that person. I heard her say something, which (to my ears anyway) went "It's on B2 today". At least, that's what I thought she said.


Wait, what were you doing earwigging in on this conversation anyway? Butt out, t'aint owt tuh do wit' yuh. Unless it was shouted.

Tumble Tower posted:
My interpretation was: It's (the programme we were watching) on B2 (BBC2) today. I do remember there being a noticeable pause between the B and the 2 though.

So you took something you probably shouldn't have heard anyway and kept a particular note of it because it meant something to you? Maybe she didn't pronounce the C fully, ever figure that, rubberneck?

Well I wasn't deliberately "eaves dropping", everyone could hear her talking. That was unavoidable. Look Nini, you can't blame the rescheduling for me starting my system of coding TV channels. If anything, my habit of coding TV channels boils down to the conversation arising as a result of that other person walking into the classroom during the programme. Had the other person NOT walked in during the programme, the teacher would not have started talking to her, and hence wouldn't have said (what I thought sounded like) "B2".

Consequently I WOULD NOT have gone on to:-
Extend it to all 4 terrestrial channels, i.e B1 = BBC1, B2 = BBC2, I1 = ITV (regardless of regional franchise), I2 = Channel 4 in autumn 1986
Make subsequent revisions to it, e.g. C4 and later 4C for Channel 4, I2 for ITV2 when that launched.
Extend it to cover as much as possible of DTT and Sky Digital
Go public with it for the first time by launching my "TV Channels: A Shorthand Code" thread on Digital Spy Forums
Use the codes elsewhere on Digital Spy Forums or TV Forum.

It's all down to me inadvertently hearing what sounded like "B2", with a noticeable pause between the B and the 2.

I suppose there's always the possibility that, at the time, she actually said Beeb 2 to mean BBC2. Neither I nor anyone else will ever know now, but what do you think? In conversation, has anyone ever said "Beeb 1" for BBC1, "Beeb 2" for BBC2, "Beeb 3" for BBC3 or "Beeb 4" for BBC4?
DA
David
Tumble Tower posted:
Last Sunday I trawled through the entire Sky EPG. Out of 600 odd channels on there, I have so far managed to allocate codes to the following channels.

Entertainment
143 BH = BBC HD


This makes sense. B means BBC and H means High Definition, right?

Tumble Tower posted:

175 S1H = Sky One HD


S means Sky, 1 because its Sky's first channel and H because its high definition. Am I right?

Tumble Tower posted:

264 DH = Discovery Home & Health
265 DH+1 = Discovery Home & Health + 1


OH NO!!
D means Discovery. H means high definition. Only, it doesn't this time. The system isn't working here. This is why you need help with this coding system, its too much work for one man to cope with.
TT
Tumble Tower
davidlees posted:
Tumble Tower posted:
Last Sunday I trawled through the entire Sky EPG. Out of 600 odd channels on there, I have so far managed to allocate codes to the following channels.

Entertainment
143 BH = BBC HD


This makes sense. B means BBC and H means High Definition, right?


100% correct davidlees, B does mean B BC and H does mean H igh definition.
davidlees posted:
Tumble Tower posted:

175 S1H = Sky One HD


S means Sky, 1 because its Sky's first channel and H because its high definition. Am I right?

Close. S actually means S ky, the 1 means One and H means H igh definition.

davidlees posted:
Tumble Tower posted:

264 DH = Discovery Home & Health
265 DH+1 = Discovery Home & Health + 1


OH NO!!
D means Discovery. H means high definition. Only, it doesn't this time. The system isn't working here. This is why you need help with this coding system, its too much work for one man to cope with.

Well spotted! In these two cases, D does indeed mean D iscovery, BUT H in these two instances means H ome and Health.

Another member of the Discovery family is:

DHD = Discovery HD

Here, D means D iscovery and HD means H igh D efinition.

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