My initial impressions were that the “series link” feature of MySky (the most important feature, in some ways) didn’t work right. I set Gilmore Girls to be recorded on Tuesday, then it was next recorded Monday the next week (not Tuesday as I originally posted), missing Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. This also happened [...]
Archive for January, 2006
31 Jan
MySky Surrounding Space
One of the features I initially liked about MySky was that it automatically started recording three minutes early, and finished three minutes late, to cover for programs starting or ending early/late (TV 2 and TV 3 are notorious for doing this).
At first this seemed to work fine. However, recently I’ve noticed that it doesn’t [...]
31 Jan
MySky Watching Tip
Although live pause and instant rewind (or whatever the marketing names are) work well, it is always best to watch programs via the ‘Planner’ page. For example, Shortland Street is scheduled to be recorded, and you get home about halfway through. While you can just change to TV 2 (if necessary) and rewind, [...]
31 Jan
MySky Interface
In my initial impressions, I noted that the “Planner” page of the MySky interface wasn’t that great. So far, this is what has annoyed me most.
26 Jan
MySky Playlists
It’s minor, but another problem: you can’t fast forward in a playlist. It skips to the next item. Stupid.
technorati tags: MySky, SkyTV
23 Jan
More MySky Loopthrough
A comment here indicates that for loopthrough to work one needs a SCART-SCART cable, and not SCART->component. That would explain why it doesn’t work – and also makes the feature pretty worthless since there must be about 3 TVs in all of New Zealand that have SCART input.
technorati tags: MySky, SkyTV
23 Jan
MySky Loopthrough Problem
Another MySky update: I moved everything about yesterday, removing the VCR from the lounge. The MySky manual mentions a “loopthrough” feature, in which a single AV channel on a TV can be shared between MySky and another device (e.g. a DVD player or PlayStation). The manual says to have the SCART output labelled [...]
19 Jan
Initial MySky Impressions
It’s been about 48 hours since I had my MySky box installed, so I thought I’d note down a few initial impressions.
19 Jan
Getting MySky
New Zealand’s SkyTV finally got around to introducing a PVR/PDR (a la TiVo), which goes by the not-particularly-great name “MySky”.
3 Jan
emlx Files
For the moment, I’m using Apple’s Mail as my primary email client (even though it’s bafflingly slow at displaying messages at times (they’re simple text files!), gets stuck updating at times, and won’t let me tell it that ihug’s SSL certificate is ok (which is partly ihug’s fault for buying some cheap one instead of [...]
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