At home, I have Sky+ HD. It's pretty awesome. Picture quality is impressive, sounds good and the Electronic Program Guide is easy to use. It's pretty simple too, it sets itself up, so there's no need to put the time and date in like your programming the clock on your microwave only for somebody else to come along and turn it off at the wall rendering your 40 minutes of hard work useless as you, as a male, refuse to use the 5 step easy set up guide. It made me wonder how people coped with missing TV shows before the Sky+ revolution.
There was of course Video+. This was a great concept, every show (well most) had a unique code that you could programme in to your VCR and by magic it would record the show you wanted to watch. Only thing is, I don’t think I've ever met anyone who ever got this to work. My dad for instance, was determined to use the Scotch cassettes to record on long play when we went out and he wanted to record something, forcing you to fast forward through 4 hours of shit before getting to the film you were after, only for it to cut off just before then end and you never get to find out what happens after then fun fair at the end of Grease.
Thankfully Sky+ sorts this problem... Unless somebody puts Hollyoaks to record and it overwrites your recording, so rather than finding out the end to Grease, you instead find out whose turn it is this week to shag the barmaid.
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