[BillyH]

The black EPG in that video would've been an NTL box after a firmware update from Virgin presumably

That’s correct, I’m the uploader of the clip above. The EPG changed in September 2006 replacing the design we’d had since 2001, and soon after that clip it changed again once TV On Demand was added which I think coincided with a new box. Here’s a montage from various videos.



Sky disappearing was extremely frustrating at the time, and as mentioned in the description it took a ridiculously long time to be sorted out, not reappearing until November 2008, twenty months later. By then I’d missed dozens of episodes of The Simpsons and Lost that I never did fully catch up with.