 Tv Guide
I have had some thoughts on the tv guide and have come up with this.. The time line runs across (dark grey progress bar) if a program is being recorded it has a red progress bar, that moves across the program in the guide.. The green one, is the program currently being watched. And the blue ones are channels currently being time shifted.
I think it would be able to highlight a program as a favourite (highlighted dark yellow with a yellow star) this way your favourite programs would show up in the guide (making them easy to spot regardless of whether you were going to record them... So If like my wife, you skim through the guide each evening to see whats on, your favourite programs are easy to spot.
I have also added an picture to certain programs... so again if you have a favourite program, you can add some art work for them to display in the guide.
It would be really cool to have a series link (series record) similar to the sky set up, where you say I want to record this series, then mediaportal would look through the guide workout when each eposiode is on and record just one of each episode. If you wanted to be really clever, it could look for when episodes are repeated and choose which one to record based on recording conflicts.
Also a long the same lines, I added a series lookup... this would display a list of when each epsiode is, making it easier for the user to plan there TV viewing..
Rich |