Digiguide Lite - free

SexyGreyFox · 12 Nov 2006 at 14:35

I've used its big brother for at least six years but this is still a useful little TV Guide tool and its free - http://accounts.digiguide.com/showcase.asp?p=4

Origin · 12 Nov 2006 at 15:28

"Sorry, A problem has occurred

#137a - Unable to download the setup file
our developers have been notified so the Support Team will be aware of your issue if you get in touch

Please visit our Online Helpdesk and quote the above error number and message exactly."

Will try again later

Vertigo · 12 Nov 2006 at 15:40

Got the newsletter about this today and was intrigued.

Have paid for full Digiguide for years but let my sub lapse recently as I've not been using it as much as I used to. What exactly does this freebie version give you then? Or probably more importantly, what does the main one do that this doesn't?

SexyGreyFox · 12 Nov 2006 at 16:07

The proper one is amazing and I can't live without it.
This small one sits in your tray and shows you all the Freeview channels : Whats On Now, Movies On Today, Sports On Today etc.
It isn't bad for free but nowhere near as good as its bigger brother.

s-p · 12 Nov 2006 at 16:32

Origin said:
"Sorry, A problem has occurred

#137a - Unable to download the setup file
our developers have been notified so the Support Team will be aware of your issue if you get in touch

Please visit our Online Helpdesk and quote the above error number and message exactly."

Will try again later

Try: http://accounts.digiguide.com/installerfiles/digiguide-lite-beta.exe

Should update to the latest "lite" version when you run it for the first time.

OllyM · 12 Nov 2006 at 16:36

The proper one is indeed amazing, shame they don't make a Mac version

Berserker · 12 Nov 2006 at 17:03

On the subject of the bigger brother. Is there any way to get it to give alerts similar to the Lite ones? I pretty much stopped using it because I got fed up with it spawning uber large numbers of windows.

SexyGreyFox · 12 Nov 2006 at 17:12

Looks like this now -

Origin · 12 Nov 2006 at 17:15

s-p said:
Try: http://accounts.digiguide.com/installerfiles/digiguide-lite-beta.exe

Should update to the latest "lite" version when you run it for the first time.

Cool, thanks. Giving it a go now. Does the full version give you sky as well as freeview?

SexyGreyFox · 12 Nov 2006 at 17:25

This is what some of my Digiguide looks like -

SideWinder · 12 Nov 2006 at 17:36

Just downloaded the Lite thingy, is it possible to remove Five from the listings? And also change the order in which the channels are shown?

Berserker · 12 Nov 2006 at 18:13

Eep, that's a bit er, garish. Oh, and thanks for the suggestion to untick the box, but I knew about that. I'd like the reminders, just not 'in your face'. I'll have a search.

As for the Lite version, I'm not sure there is. You can do it in the full one for sure, but the lite one doesn't appear to have many options at all.

Chronos-X · 14 Nov 2006 at 20:43

Introducing Freeguide

http://freeguide-tv.sourceforge.net/

A free alternative. Its on sourceforge, which is a bit "linux", but its alright, the program actually looks quite good

SexyGreyFox · 14 Nov 2006 at 22:06

Chronos-X said:
Introducing Freeguide

http://freeguide-tv.sourceforge.net/

A free alternative. Its on sourceforge, which is a bit "linux", but its alright, the program actually looks quite good

That is excellent for a freebie.
They've tried to copy Digiguide a bit but I'll be passing that on to quite a few people.