My wishlist

[madcat]

Two more things I remembered :p :

10) In the Guide (a but lengthy description... bear with me):
When you browse the guide, let's say the time now is 21:40. and I just look for stuff running now, using up/down.
Most of the slots are either 1-hour shows (in our example, 21:00-22:00), or 30 minutes shows (21:00-21:30;21:30-22:00).
Now, if I move to a channel that has a 1-hour show - it will be highligetd.
If I move to a channel that has 30 minute slot at the current time, the first of the two will be highlighted! (the 21:00-21:30) - this show is already over!

I understand the problem: when moving from a 60min slot to 30min - you choose the first of the two (the one aligned to the same start time) - right? I mean, you can't guess which time I'm looking for.
Unless - I am browsing the current shows - don't jump to ones that are over?

11) In the guide: add a "Reminder" option - to just select a show and set a reminder on it, so when watching live/recorded/videos, if this show's time approaches (have a config to set a predefined reminder time), get an on screen reminder dialog:
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"Reminder - 'Prison Break' starts in 5 minutes.
Would you like to switch to liveTv on channel 8 now?"
[OK]/[Cancel]
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[stefan]

10) In the Guide (a but lengthy description... bear with me):
When you browse the guide, let's say the time now is 21:40. and I just look for stuff running now, using up/down.
Most of the slots are either 1-hour shows (in our example, 21:00-22:00), or 30 minutes shows (21:00-21:30;21:30-22:00).
Now, if I move to a channel that has a 1-hour show - it will be highligetd.
If I move to a channel that has 30 minute slot at the current time, the first of the two will be highlighted! (the 21:00-21:30) - this show is already over!

I understand the problem: when moving from a 60min slot to 30min - you choose the first of the two (the one aligned to the same start time) - right? I mean, you can't guess which time I'm looking for.
Unless - I am browsing the current shows - don't jump to ones that are over?

Something like "if you move down, and then up again in the EPG, you should be back at the point where you started"?

11) In the guide: add a "Reminder" option

This has been discussed at length in the past. Basically, it's really tricky to get this to work in an intuitive way in a multi mvp environment...

[madcat]

Something like "if you move down, and then up again in the EPG, you should be back at the point where you started"?

Yeah, that too...

This has been discussed at length in the past. Basically, it's really tricky to get this to work in an intuitive way in a multi mvp environment...

Well, i'm a non-MVP single-capture environment guy. Very simple, isn't it?
I mean, it's even simpler than the recording-notification-during-liveTV that was just suggested (and I support that too). It's a request made by the user to remind him/her that a show is upcoming. Sub - really an implementation issue?

[sub]

This has been discussed at length in the past. Basically, it's really tricky to get this to work in an intuitive way in a multi mvp environment...

Well, i'm a non-MVP single-capture environment guy. Very simple, isn't it?
I mean, it's even simpler than the recording-notification-during-liveTV that was just suggested (and I support that too). It's a request made by the user to remind him/her that a show is upcoming. Sub - really an implementation issue?

I posted a while back this isnt a feature I want. I recognise some people would use it, so its still on the 'maybe' list, but its got a really low priority.

[colin]

Something like "if you move down, and then up again in the EPG, you should be back at the point where you started"?

Basically what happens is:

Code:

9:00pm        9:30pm       10:00pm
Chan 1       Program 1 which lasts 1 hr
Chan 2       Prog 2 30mins   | Prog 3 30 mins

If the time is 9:40 and you have Program 1 on Chan 1 highlighted, pushing the down arrow to Chan 2 and Prog 2 gets highlighted. Rather than Prog 3. This is more a UI inconvience than a bug.

Cheers,

[madcat]

On the "guide navigation issue":

This is more a UI inconvience than a bug.

Call it either. And I'm sure Sub understood the issue... but thanks for supporting. As long as Sub is willing to concider dealing with it .


On the other subject:

I posted a while back this isnt a feature I want. I recognise some people would use it, so its still on the 'maybe' list, but its got a really low priority.

That's OK, I/we can't call the shots for the priority. All I can do is voice and "vote" for my wishes...

[reven]

"the guide navigation issue"
- guide2j, or whatever its called now, sorted this out ages ago. one of the nice features of that plugin. of course i dont use it but it has some nice features the core plugin could steal from.

[madcat]

"the guide navigation issue"
- guide2j, or whatever its called now, sorted this out ages ago. one of the nice features of that plugin. of course i dont use it but it has some nice features the core plugin could steal from.

Maybe ages ago it did, but now it doesn't. I just tried it (again) - the behavior in the guide is identical to built-in one.

By default, when moving rows (up/down), it will select the program that started at the "round" time (01:00, 02:00, etc). Not only it doesn't select the one running now, it selects sometimes programs that are finished (again, this is XGuide and built-in one).

I know it's possible to solve... (Sage does it correctly). Like sub said about something else - It's a question of priority (and effort involved).