2023-11-04, 04:08 PM
What I have been noticing is there are probably as many wishlist items now as problem reports which indicates a level of maturity I don't recall. Since sub doesn't have a big defect list I thought I'd give a couple of thoughts after viewing a new STB at my father's on Thursday.
1. Previous channel. Rather then just the one key hoping back and forth. I'd like to see a stack of the previously watched channels with a GUI. When I am watching football on Sunday there can be 4 games on. I could live with a virtual "Last Watched" channel group but a hotkey would be useful and focus on the second item on the stack would be like previous channel. It also gets rid of the annoyance when the previous channel isn't what you expect. I don't think the stack should be too big since it still needs to be quick to process.
2. Catchup TV. Although IPTV services might offer it, the new generation STB's can also provide this. For anyone using a blaster, it would just be as easy as sending some extra keystrokes after a channel change. The pseudo code I see for an Extra and HDPVR with catchup enabled for the device would be
- tune channel
- trigger a new script for catchup purposes
- start a manual recording for the current show with the full duration of the new show, with a "real" EPG based filename.
- update the manual recording info with the EPG data.
Steps 1 and 2 could be modified at a later data for IPTV.
Martin
1. Previous channel. Rather then just the one key hoping back and forth. I'd like to see a stack of the previously watched channels with a GUI. When I am watching football on Sunday there can be 4 games on. I could live with a virtual "Last Watched" channel group but a hotkey would be useful and focus on the second item on the stack would be like previous channel. It also gets rid of the annoyance when the previous channel isn't what you expect. I don't think the stack should be too big since it still needs to be quick to process.
2. Catchup TV. Although IPTV services might offer it, the new generation STB's can also provide this. For anyone using a blaster, it would just be as easy as sending some extra keystrokes after a channel change. The pseudo code I see for an Extra and HDPVR with catchup enabled for the device would be
- tune channel
- trigger a new script for catchup purposes
- start a manual recording for the current show with the full duration of the new show, with a "real" EPG based filename.
- update the manual recording info with the EPG data.
Steps 1 and 2 could be modified at a later data for IPTV.
Martin