On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 13:48 +0200, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > On 10/07/08 10:26, Gavin Hamill wrote: > On my Sky digibox "Sky One" is on chanel number 106 - but I never saw > that number in any programme announcement on Sky. The only say "... on Sky One", > and not "... on channel 106". > > So where exactly are the channel numbers really used? > > BTW: on my VDR the Sky channels start at 201 ;-) Well I can say that poster / magazine advertising in the UK almost always includes the channel number, especially if it's a channel not produced by Sky themselves. Sky One is a special case because it's not carried on Freeview or cable. :) (Our national cable-co refused to pay what Sky demanded for Sky One carriage...) Cheers, Gavin. _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr