YouView and I believe TiVo on Virgin Media have reverse EPGs. I had YouView for about 18 months (product was fine but TalkTalk was terrible) and I found he reverse EPG probably one of the most useful aspects to it. As it was a joint venture between the main broadcasters you could go from the EPG to that channels catch up service through one button.
Freeview Play has one but I'm not sure I've ever used it - tend to go to the player.
JM
JamesM0984
I'll try that on my V6 when I get in.
Also, off topic but how come the PVR on Virgin doesn't respond to schedule changes? Lost the end of Apprentice for example due to the No Confidence Vote result - the PVR cut off on 22:00 dead.
I think Homechoice (which got subsumed into Tiscali then TalkTalk) might have had a reverse EPG when I had it in 2005. It was incredibly slow and clunky, though.
When I still lived in the Grampian area well before the merge between them and Scottish, I used to tape the repeat broadcast of Scotland Today as both it and North Tonight were shown in the small hours.
:-(
A former member
It was always around 3.40am when thoses news repeats happened. After that It would be emmerdale and corrie repeats from 4.35am then first live local news at 05.25am.
Friday night, 1:30-2am, I've come in from a late shift and there's, being blunt, very little in the way of content on TV. News Channel, gambling, signed repeats... not a lot of original stuff. You used to be able to find some real gems at night - edgy stuff, foreign imports, maybe a movie, stuff that was a bit offbeat... now though, there seems little to be said for night time TV.
What types of programmes should be broadcast in the small hours and why?
Bit of a faff to go and get my Radio Times out - the online TV guide doesn't go backwards either AFAIK.
Yes it does:
Still you need your phone to go back through the list, and then faff about searching for it pressing buttons on your remote like you did on your Nokia 3310 back in the day.
I don't know why any of the catch up players which are purported to be so great don't have a "reverse EPG" showing clearly what every single one of their brands showed and when - so for example I can see what every BBC, ITV, C4 or C5 brand was showing at any one given time all on one screen like a normal EPG does.
You could just find the programme and then cast it to the device you wish to view it on.
It always just showed programming too crap to show during the day. During the mid 1990s there was a brief period where they tried to produce something worthwhile but there just wasn't the audience for it. The smaller ITV companies couldn't be bothered with it from day one and just left it running without ads - they had the right idea.
The only really worthwhile use of the time was when YTV put out Asian films on Friday nights - this at least served a PSB purpose.
