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We are not certain if these are official images of the freesat EPG, or a mock up on photoshop, but they do look very impressive, with a much more modern design than the present Sky EPG.
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We’ll try to get confirmation and let you know.
April 18th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Look at the date (June 2007).
Would there really have been a functional Freesat EPG to that standard, at that time ?
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April 18th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
Oooo it looks lovely.
MariaQuote
April 20th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
snaithg – Likewise that its all in German, but we know that its a EPG commonly used in Europe and was expected to be used for freesat also, although we still don’t have any confirmation.
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June 27th, 2008 at 11:23 am
I wish all reviewers would start testing Subtitle performance
When deaf people rely on Subtitles or the many thousands of users that put it on as an English teaching aid subtitles are really important, sadly sky platform can be appalling, sometimes its down to weather, or dish alignment is not spot on, or subtitles lag so you can be reading what happened five mins ago.
Worse offenders are advert breaks, a big splash across your screen imploring you to BE KIND TO YOUR BOTTOM – Andrex … and it stubbornly remains there 5 mins into the next programme until your forced to change channel and back.
The Font and Big Bold helvetica font has not changed in 30 years. Its awful, time has moved on when will at least one manufacturer at least try to offer an alternative.
choose a font, a colour scheme, transparency, with or without background.
We want real subtitles, not something dreamed up in the days of CEEFAX time has moved on.
Deaf and hard of hearing adults in the UK *
These are the latest estimated figures for the number of deaf and hard of hearing adults in the UK. There are:
* 8,945,000 deaf and hard of hearing people
* 2,474,000 deaf and hard of hearing people aged 16 to 60
* 6,471,000 deaf and hard of hearing people aged over 60
* 8,257,000 people with mild to moderate deafness
* 2,366,000 people with mild to moderate deafness aged 16 to 60
* 5,891,000 people with mild to moderate deafness aged over 60
* 688,000 people with severe to profound deafness
* 108,000 people with severe to profound deafness aged 16 to 60
* 580,000 people with severe to profound deafness aged over 60.
*RNID
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February 14th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
I’m presuming Freesat subtitles work in the same way as they do on freeview, in which case they will be pictures of text generated by the channel transmitting them.
This is to be contrasted with the old Ceefax method which transmitted the text as digital text which then required the receiving TV to generate the text.
This distinction is important as the broadcaster controls the appearance of the subtitles, rather than the consumer.
Subtitles that could be customised by the viewer would be the best solution, however as this would require significantly extra processing in the receiver it may well be beyond the chipsets deployed in most current freeview and freesat receivers.
That said I’ll still contact the RNID and BBC about this.
If we’re going to discuss this further I suggest opening a separate thread, sorry for this hijack!
In terms of the EPG I think it looks pretty good, Certainly a lot better than most I have seen, including Sky + the SD version doesn’t even have a proper programme search.
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