Book a Show to Watch?
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2009-03-20, 03:28 AM
psycik Wrote:if you've done that and are watching live tv what does it do? anythinig? tried it today. it does nothing.
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2009-03-20, 03:35 AM
The feature was never implemented when we moved to pvrx2.exe. It wasnt a feature I was interested in myself, and very few people ever used it.
2009-03-20, 03:41 AM
I used this 'type' of feature when I had SkyTV. It meant I could browse channels until a program came on. Was also useful in the days of 'line-in' VCR recording as it would switch the channel on the STB for me.
2009-03-21, 03:29 AM
sub Wrote:The feature was never implemented when we moved to pvrx2.exe. It wasnt a feature I was interested in myself, and very few people ever used it. ah, so I take it the feature did do what we're talking about in the old gbpvr.exe front-end? That makes more sense... when I discovered what's left of the feature in PVRX2 I couldn't really figure out why it had been implemented, since it didn't do anything terribly useful. If it did work as intended I could see using it (in cases like my baseball example), but I admit it's of limited audience.
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2009-03-21, 03:42 AM
My dad has an old TV that does this by itself. It has a feature built in called Guide Plus that gets an EPG via the cable system. He can select a show he wants to watch and at the assigned time the TV switches to that show. If the TV is off, it will even switch itself on. I guess it wasn't very popular, as I haven't seen it listed as an option for a TV in several years.
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2009-03-21, 11:35 AM
I would certinly use a function like that, in fact I'v tried to get it working, as I tend to forget a show I was planning to watch. Instead I record it now, but I'd very much like to see it re-implemented. Please Sub?
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2009-03-21, 04:39 PM
Another please Sub from me - this feature is standard now on set-top boxes here in UK (Freeview, Virgin, Sky) and a couple of times, not realising it it no longer works in PVRX2, I have highlighted programs to watch and ended up missing the first half:-(
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2009-03-21, 04:47 PM
it seems someone else is looking for this too:
http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=41527 as a special bonus, I got to use 'serendipitously' in a sentence!
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2009-03-21, 04:52 PM
I dont want to commit time to this feature, so if I do reimplement, its only going to be a cut back implementation, that switches the requested channel automatically at the said time. It wont have popups to warn you the switch is going to happen, giving you a chance to cancel it etc.
2009-03-21, 05:00 PM
If it can switch into Live TV from whatever mode you're in, that would be bonus. No worries about warnings and that sort of stuff.
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