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ndunlavey
01-21-2006, 01:20 PM
Is it common for BBC4 data to be there only for a week in advance? Right now, I've got precious little for a week today, and from Sunday onwards just 4-hour slots saying "BBC4 Television".
b166er
01-21-2006, 02:00 PM
Is it common for BBC4 data to be there only for a week in advance? Right now, I've got precious little for a week today, and from Sunday onwards just 4-hour slots saying "BBC4 Television".Same for me right now. I don't often look that far ahead on BBC3 or 4 so not sure. I can see data to saturday fine, sunday onwards is the 4-hour slots. Same goes for BBC3. If I look at BBC1 or 2 it's showing data all the way to the saturday after that (4th Feb). My last succesful EPG call was today at lunchtime. Weird but you're not alone.
OzSat
01-22-2006, 02:12 AM
It is usual for the main BBC and ITV channels to only have data until the Friday of the next week - the data would have only just been released by them.
So on a Saturday (yesterday) - the data would end on Friday of the next week (27th Jan).
But on Sunday (today) - the data would end on Friday of the next week (3rd Feb).
The data usually downloads over the Saturday and Sunday - so may seem be a day earlier then my example for some channels.
In the weeks before Christmas is was much earlier as the channels released that much earlier.
b166er
01-22-2006, 03:20 AM
It is usual for the main BBC and ITV channels to only have data until the Friday of the next week - the data would have only just been released by them. So on a Saturday (yesterday) - the data would end on Friday of the next week (27th Jan).Yeah, but no but yeah but no but .... BBC1 was showing a week more data than BBC3 or 4.
OzSat
01-22-2006, 03:57 AM
Because BBC1/BBC2 got downloaded on Saturday - but BBC 3/4 were on Sunday.
b166er
01-22-2006, 05:45 AM
Because BBC1/BBC2 got downloaded on Saturday - but BBC 3/4 were on Sunday.Ahhaaaaaaaaaa :eek: I always assumed that every time I did an update call, I'd get one more day of data tagged onto the end of each channel. Or if I did a call every 3 days, I'd get 3 days tagged onto the end of each channel. But you're saying an extra week are tagged onto the end of BBC1/2 on saturdays and for BBC3/4 on sundays. Well I'm enlightened. Good to know next time I'm flying on a sunday, I'll force a daily call in the morning rather than wait for it's natural time :D
ndunlavey
01-22-2006, 05:59 AM
Ta - today's call has pulled down data to Feb 3rd. Most importantly, Poliakoff's "Perfect Strangers" has shown up and displaced "Foyle's War" in the To Do list.
(Even better, I see that Poliakoff is in the Directors list now, so I can set a Director WL to auto-record for him)
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