TV Guide - Program selection

[vjc]

After trying gbpvr a couple of months ago with limited success, I spent some time trying MCE2005 and the FusionHDTV system as I have a FusionHDTV Plus card.

On both these systems I would get a lockup of one sort or another at least once a day and the wife was getting ready to walk out.

I have over the past couple of weeks installed the latest version of gbpvr and must say that the experience has been excellent.

The installation went without a hitch and I haven't had anything lockup since the installation over a week ago.

Great work Sub.

There is one small annoyance and that is when you select a program from the TV Guide the options are:

Exit
Quick Rec
Record
Watch

and the Exit option has the focus.

I would have thought the object of selecting the program was to watch it and wonder why that option doesn't have the focus, a simple click OK on the remote and you are watching the program, now you have to move the remote down 3 times before selecting the OK button, it may seem as small issue but believe me for the wife it is a problem.

Is it possible to provide a configuration option to select which item to be the default highlight?

Regardless of the above I believe gbpvr is leaving the other system behind.

[blader_se]

I would have thought the object of selecting the program was to watch it and wonder why that option doesn't have the focus, a simple click OK on the remote and you are watching the program, now you have to move the remote down 3 times before selecting the OK button, it may seem as small issue but believe me for the wife it is a problem.

My normal action in this box is "record", but I like something non-vital happening default (if I press ok twice and the system response is slow). I usually change channels from the mini- or min-mini-guide (Ctrl-G). The watch button is only appearing if it is possible to watch it, i.e. if it's aired at this moment...

Some other people have talked about wanting to hit the play button directly from the guide to view a program, don't know if that's been implemented...

[McBainUK]

Some other people have talked about wanting to hit the play button directly from the guide to view a program, don't know if that's been implemented...

This has been implemented, makes it so much easier to quickly watch a channel

[vjc]

Thanks blader-se and McBainUK, that is exactly what I was after.

[stefan]

I think you can also press the record button directly in a similar way.