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<blockquote data-quote="tomtom21000" data-source="post: 4339" data-attributes="member: 10287"><p>Ok, it took a long time (see date of last post) but finally I can come up with a really good layout proposal (As least I hope so).</p><p></p><p>The advantages on one glance:</p><p></p><p># reduces number of clicks/ moves necessary drastically</p><p># produces an overview of 20 progs at once</p><p># is equally suitable for mouse and remote users</p><p># it would give mp a unique selling position as I haven´t seen this layout on any other program (cut this, I am being only too enthusiastic about my idea <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> )</p><p></p><p>O.K. here is what I am thinking about (as a osd):</p><p></p><p><img src="http://tomtom21000.cwsurf.de/mp-genre.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Now you have to click channel, then click right or lett until you reach the desired channel. This means you need up to 20-30 clicks in my case with 40 channels.</p><p>(In fullscreen you can enter channel number directly, but only if you know it.)</p><p></p><p>My proposal is:</p><p></p><p><u>Flexible Genre</u></p><p>Have a genre associated with the channel, like "news" "sports", etc. (See Nr. 1)..</p><p>I would suggest to have 5-6 standard genres but make them renamable, so if someone does not need "music" he can rename it to "documentary" or whatever.</p><p></p><p>Most flexible would be to put in setup "Add" so the user can decide how many genres he needs. Provides also "up" "down" for sorting the genre list.</p><p></p><p><u>Very fast channel switching</u></p><p></p><p>(See Nr 2)</p><p></p><p>With mouse you need only 2 clicks to change a channel (1 more if it is not on the first page). 1 to bring up the osd like the pic above, 1 to choose the program.</p><p></p><p>With remote/keyboard you have very short ways too. When the cursor by default is placed somewhere in the middle of the screen. You need in average not more than 3-4 clicks (left, left, up , ok - for example)</p><p></p><p><u>Have the same channel in different genre catagories</u></p><p></p><p>This also accounts to flexibility (See Nr. 3, Example "Pro 7")</p><p>I think it would be enough to be able to assign one channel to max three genres ( For this probably 3 fields in the database are necessary, unless you create a unique number for any possible combination of genres - got to recall my statistics lessons <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p><u>Additional graphics to page up/down/left/right</u></p><p></p><p>(See Nr. 4). The left arrow is missing. I realized to late and it would have been hard to rescale every item in the sketch I made, so I left it to you imagination)</p><p></p><p>I´s propose this to be a page up/down/right/leftt. Again to minimize count of necessary actions (Means instead of scrolling)</p><p></p><p><u>Great overciew</u></p><p></p><p>You see 20 programs at once.</p><p></p><p>Concepts I know:</p><p>-----------------------------</p><p>Win DVR:</p><p></p><p>You get a long list as osd like</p><p></p><p>channel 1</p><p>channel 2</p><p>channel 3</p><p>...</p><p>...</p><p>...</p><p>channel 40</p><p></p><p>Takes you ages to find the desired channel</p><p>--------------------------------</p><p>Win TV2000:</p><p></p><p>this has the genre thing though i never cared to implement this. But I guess it works like this:</p><p></p><p>News-------------| N24 | CNN | Euronews</p><p>Music </p><p>Sports </p><p></p><p>News </p><p>Music-------------| MTV | MTV2 | Viva</p><p>Sports </p><p> </p><p></p><p>You only see the channels of the chosen genre. That is not so good when you are not sure in which gentre a channel will be (It is easy for sports and music, but there might be genres where it isn´t that easy. So with the proposed grid approach you do not have to go through every genre, but see genre and associated channels at once.</p><p></p><p>--------------------------------------------------------------</p><p><u>Future enhancements</u></p><p></p><p>1. Instead of displaying channel logos, a click on the genre title could result in a channel scan through the channels of this genre giving a video still of the current program on every channel in this genre. You might know this from TV sets. But this takes rather long, so nobody wants to do this for 40 channels. But for 5 channels, this would be cool I think.</p><p></p><p>2. It might be combined with EPG somehow. Maybe only display the shows of one genre. But this can be integrated in the EPG views, once a genre thing is introduced. Might be better.</p><p></p><p>3. This might also be usefull for the radio/internet stream section.</p><p>-----------------------------------------------------------------</p><p></p><p>Long post. When you read this last line you must be interested <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p>Interested in your comments.</p><p></p><p>tomtom21000</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tomtom21000, post: 4339, member: 10287"] Ok, it took a long time (see date of last post) but finally I can come up with a really good layout proposal (As least I hope so). The advantages on one glance: # reduces number of clicks/ moves necessary drastically # produces an overview of 20 progs at once # is equally suitable for mouse and remote users # it would give mp a unique selling position as I haven´t seen this layout on any other program (cut this, I am being only too enthusiastic about my idea ;) ) O.K. here is what I am thinking about (as a osd): [img]http://tomtom21000.cwsurf.de/mp-genre.jpg[/img] Now you have to click channel, then click right or lett until you reach the desired channel. This means you need up to 20-30 clicks in my case with 40 channels. (In fullscreen you can enter channel number directly, but only if you know it.) My proposal is: [u]Flexible Genre[/u] Have a genre associated with the channel, like "news" "sports", etc. (See Nr. 1).. I would suggest to have 5-6 standard genres but make them renamable, so if someone does not need "music" he can rename it to "documentary" or whatever. Most flexible would be to put in setup "Add" so the user can decide how many genres he needs. Provides also "up" "down" for sorting the genre list. [u]Very fast channel switching[/u] (See Nr 2) With mouse you need only 2 clicks to change a channel (1 more if it is not on the first page). 1 to bring up the osd like the pic above, 1 to choose the program. With remote/keyboard you have very short ways too. When the cursor by default is placed somewhere in the middle of the screen. You need in average not more than 3-4 clicks (left, left, up , ok - for example) [u]Have the same channel in different genre catagories[/u] This also accounts to flexibility (See Nr. 3, Example "Pro 7") I think it would be enough to be able to assign one channel to max three genres ( For this probably 3 fields in the database are necessary, unless you create a unique number for any possible combination of genres - got to recall my statistics lessons ;) [u]Additional graphics to page up/down/left/right[/u] (See Nr. 4). The left arrow is missing. I realized to late and it would have been hard to rescale every item in the sketch I made, so I left it to you imagination) I´s propose this to be a page up/down/right/leftt. Again to minimize count of necessary actions (Means instead of scrolling) [u]Great overciew[/u] You see 20 programs at once. Concepts I know: ----------------------------- Win DVR: You get a long list as osd like channel 1 channel 2 channel 3 ... ... ... channel 40 Takes you ages to find the desired channel -------------------------------- Win TV2000: this has the genre thing though i never cared to implement this. But I guess it works like this: News-------------| N24 | CNN | Euronews Music Sports News Music-------------| MTV | MTV2 | Viva Sports You only see the channels of the chosen genre. That is not so good when you are not sure in which gentre a channel will be (It is easy for sports and music, but there might be genres where it isn´t that easy. So with the proposed grid approach you do not have to go through every genre, but see genre and associated channels at once. -------------------------------------------------------------- [u]Future enhancements[/u] 1. Instead of displaying channel logos, a click on the genre title could result in a channel scan through the channels of this genre giving a video still of the current program on every channel in this genre. You might know this from TV sets. But this takes rather long, so nobody wants to do this for 40 channels. But for 5 channels, this would be cool I think. 2. It might be combined with EPG somehow. Maybe only display the shows of one genre. But this can be integrated in the EPG views, once a genre thing is introduced. Might be better. 3. This might also be usefull for the radio/internet stream section. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Long post. When you read this last line you must be interested ;) Interested in your comments. tomtom21000 [/QUOTE]
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