Launch Style EPGs

INTRODUCED: OCTOBER 1998, DISCONTINUED: MAY 2001
AVAILABILITY: EXTREMELY RARE

These EPGs first supported the earliest years of the Sky Digital service, and was the first digital EPG that many people would have experienced in the late 1990s. It is understood that this version was completed extremely quickly, especially with the sudden rebrand to the 1998-2000 'swoosh' corporate logos. Originally these EPGs would only be able to receive up to three days of EPG listings, however, they seem to work fine with the full seven-day listings offered today. Up until recently, high-quality footage of these EPGs wasn't available, however, Old Digibox owns two Sky Digiboxes that were never updated from this EPG.


2.6b.10 (2000)

AMSTRAD DRX100 TP2

EPG 2.6b.10 introduced the 'A-Z Listings' search functionality.

2.7a.2 (2000)

PANASONIC TU-DSB30

EPG 2.7a.2 was a preparative release for the introduction of Sky Active, as this EPG was the first to adopt the multi-option Interactive screen that was used in later versions, as opposed to displaying 'Press SELECT to Open...'