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<blockquote data-quote="doveman" data-source="post: 634106" data-attributes="member: 67412"><p>The point is, at the moment I have to click on the programme, wait for another screen to come up, click on the programme again from the list and then select Record Once. More or less the same for setting Alerts.</p><p></p><p>This is slow and long-winded and I miss my old STB where I could just skim through the EPG setting Records and Alerts for various programmes quickly and easily.</p><p></p><p>I appreciate the Red button has always been used to toggle fullscreen but considering that most people will be entering the EPG from LiveTV, it's far more intuitive for them to press Exit to go back to fullscreen LiveTV, which does actually work already (for me at least). I think it would be better to keep the Rec button for bringing up the Record screen, for when users want to do more than set a simple Record Once and use the Red button to mark the programme to be recorded directly from the EPG.</p><p></p><p>I've got no problem with keeping the Info button to bring up the info screen, but I wonder if there are some remotes without an Info button whereas I imagine most remotes have the four coloured buttons. It is a bit annoying that after bringing up the programme details with the Info button, a second press brings up another menu, rather than just closing the info pop-up, which is what I think most average users would prefer. It can be closed with the Exit button, but it's easier for people if they can just press the same button to open/close the pop-up. As there are options already on the Info pop-up that can be selected from there if required, perhaps it could be considered putting some more on there (I'm not convinced that all the options on the menu are needed) and then making the Info button just open/close this pop-up.</p><p></p><p>As for being able to set things how I'd like in Config, I just had a look and couldn't see any option in Remote Mapping to set a button to set an Alert or Record marker on a Programme in the EPG, or to add/remove items from the Music playlist. Even if this were possible, you have to understand that for many users the Config is something quite confusing and scary and we should be making MP as easy to use and user friendly out-of-the-box as possible.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="doveman, post: 634106, member: 67412"] The point is, at the moment I have to click on the programme, wait for another screen to come up, click on the programme again from the list and then select Record Once. More or less the same for setting Alerts. This is slow and long-winded and I miss my old STB where I could just skim through the EPG setting Records and Alerts for various programmes quickly and easily. I appreciate the Red button has always been used to toggle fullscreen but considering that most people will be entering the EPG from LiveTV, it's far more intuitive for them to press Exit to go back to fullscreen LiveTV, which does actually work already (for me at least). I think it would be better to keep the Rec button for bringing up the Record screen, for when users want to do more than set a simple Record Once and use the Red button to mark the programme to be recorded directly from the EPG. I've got no problem with keeping the Info button to bring up the info screen, but I wonder if there are some remotes without an Info button whereas I imagine most remotes have the four coloured buttons. It is a bit annoying that after bringing up the programme details with the Info button, a second press brings up another menu, rather than just closing the info pop-up, which is what I think most average users would prefer. It can be closed with the Exit button, but it's easier for people if they can just press the same button to open/close the pop-up. As there are options already on the Info pop-up that can be selected from there if required, perhaps it could be considered putting some more on there (I'm not convinced that all the options on the menu are needed) and then making the Info button just open/close this pop-up. As for being able to set things how I'd like in Config, I just had a look and couldn't see any option in Remote Mapping to set a button to set an Alert or Record marker on a Programme in the EPG, or to add/remove items from the Music playlist. Even if this were possible, you have to understand that for many users the Config is something quite confusing and scary and we should be making MP as easy to use and user friendly out-of-the-box as possible. [/QUOTE]
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