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<blockquote data-quote="jawbroken" data-source="post: 91246" data-attributes="member: 14372">One problem I see with this is it ruins the mental model people have from using a television set. On a normal television it takes the same time to change the channel whether you change the channel up, down or to a random channel. With this implemented a lot of people will have no idea why going up a channel is so much faster than going down a channel or switching to a random channel. Also, if you are recording something on your dual tuner system, suddenly channel surfing will become a lot slower, I think this is surprising behaviour.Personally I prefer the Principle of Least Surprise, but it is just something to think about. I think time would be better spent improving the channel changing speed (at least to as fast as possible given certain hardware) rather than on tricks like this, but maybe people feel otherwise. I think the new TV server has improved channel changing speed anyway, from what I have read around. This may not be true for all people though.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jawbroken, post: 91246, member: 14372"] One problem I see with this is it ruins the mental model people have from using a television set. On a normal television it takes the same time to change the channel whether you change the channel up, down or to a random channel. With this implemented a lot of people will have no idea why going up a channel is so much faster than going down a channel or switching to a random channel. Also, if you are recording something on your dual tuner system, suddenly channel surfing will become a lot slower, I think this is surprising behaviour. Personally I prefer the Principle of Least Surprise, but it is just something to think about. I think time would be better spent improving the channel changing speed (at least to as fast as possible given certain hardware) rather than on tricks like this, but maybe people feel otherwise. I think the new TV server has improved channel changing speed anyway, from what I have read around. This may not be true for all people though. [/QUOTE]

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