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Posted by John Lockwood on July 4, 2006, 12:14 pm
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I think the Sky DigiMemo from PaceLink might address these issues for you
see http://www.pacelink.co.uk/digimemo.htm
In the longer term, being able to directly receive DVB-S (and DVB-S2) in a
PC without a Sky box would of course completely remove the problem.
Cheers, John Lockwood
On 4/7/06 14:31, in article
F217274F-6280-41D5-897E-88E97D6F883D@microsoft.com, "Shaggy"
> Hi,
>
> So many times whilst using media center the sky box has an update or a power
> outage and goes into standby mode. Media center does not know this and sends
> the ir pulses to the sky box but the box does not come on. How about
> everytime the media center sends out a channel change it is preceded by the
> sky button code which would turn the box on and if the box is already on then
> sky would ignore the sky ir pulse and still accept the channel number pulses
> sent afterwards. This would also help in cases where media center sends out
> 3 pulses for the channel change and the sky box misses the first pulse - this
> seems more like a media center fault at the moment as the first ir pulse is
> sometimes shorter and incomplete - probably due to media center accessing the
> hard drive firing up for recording.
>
> This also includes vista media center.
>
> How about it MS? Help us UK Sky users that refuse to pay Sky even more
> money and use the inferior Sky + box......
>
> Shaggy
>
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