Openbox DM500HD TV guide?

[roy jones jr]

I have had my Openbox DM500HD for a few weeks now and after struggling to put up with the constant picture problems every few minutes, i have now got used to them and can put up with the little flicks/skips and freezes in the picture quality. However one thing is still bugging me, after coming from Sky and using there great tv guide set up for the last few years, the tv guide on the Openbox is very poor and has made me miss countless amounts of my favourite programs. I mean when you change the channel, it only shows the NOW and NEXT programs, unlike Sky or Virgin where you can see what is coming on in the next 12 hours or so. Is there anything i can do about this to somehow make the information on the channel info show up for the whole day?

[darcu5]

in a word.... no.
Nothing at all you can do, foriegn channels show a full epg, its just the slyuk one that wont work..
I have a tv guide set up on laptop homepage and just check that whenever i'm looking to see whats on

[darcu5]

hang on, do you have a openbox or a dreambox dm500 if its openbox no ya deffo cant, not sure about dreamboxes tho.

[roy jones jr]

in a word.... no.
Nothing at all you can do, foriegn channels show a full epg, its just the slyuk one that wont work..
I have a tv guide set up on laptop homepage and just check that whenever i'm looking to see whats on

yeah its deffo a openbox, gutted. cant even keep my sky box in and check the epg on there as i'll have to keep on taking the sky cable's out and put them back in and thats too much hassle.

and what do you mean by foreign channels? i dont really have a clue about these boxes as i just bought it from a guy who set everything up, i dont know if you can get foreign channels....? theres a few foreign channels i would love to have like canal+ and some other footy ones? can you get them on a openbox?

and how do you get that tv guide you are using? is it a website? if it is link me it please mate.

[darcu5]

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you can change the channels to suit then sav it to your favs.

yes you can get cannal+ but they are on a differant satellite to sly, so you need a motorised dish set up or another dish pointing at the correct satellite for canal, think its 19.2e whereas slyuk is 28.2e

[darcu5]

if you have a s9 there are 2 cable connectors on the back, one is in from your dish, the other is an output to plug into an different box, i had an openbox plugged in then a sky hd box running off that, just need a little bit of wire to jump from one to the other, i'm not sure if both boxes can be on at same time tho, i think i had to turn the openbox off to get the sky hd one to show on tv..