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<blockquote data-quote="Elf" data-source="post: 46105" data-attributes="member: 13103">I'm another big fan of this approach - the Sky TV STBs in the UK do this and it is just so intuitive!If you hit any of the arrow keys or Enter, the &quot;now/next&quot; banner appears on screen.&nbsp; Do nothing for a few seconds and it disappears again, but if you press up/down while it's still displayed it changes to show now/next for other channels accordingly.&nbsp; If you see something on another channel you like the look of, hit Enter to change to that channel, or do nothing and the banner disappears after a timeout of a few seconds.In addition to this, you can hit left/right while the banner is displayed to move through programmes on the same channel - so you can see what's coming up later.&nbsp; Hitting enter while a later show is displayed in the banner would set to record or remind that show.The Channel +/- buttons act differently in that they change the channel immediately so you don't need to use the &quot;search-n-scan banner&quot; (as I believe it's called) if you don't want to.I think I'm right in saying MP uses the arrow keys during full-screen TV for ffwd/rwd, but we could get something similar with the Zap OSD in MP with a relatively minor change requiring you to press Enter to change to the displayed channel - if it times out, just stay on the channel you were watching..?Edit: Oops, just re-read pirlone's post and realise this is basically what he's saying - I agree!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Elf, post: 46105, member: 13103"] I'm another big fan of this approach - the Sky TV STBs in the UK do this and it is just [b]so[/b] intuitive! If you hit any of the arrow keys or Enter, the "now/next" banner appears on screen. Do nothing for a few seconds and it disappears again, but if you press up/down while it's still displayed it changes to show now/next for other channels accordingly. If you see something on another channel you like the look of, hit Enter to change to that channel, or do nothing and the banner disappears after a timeout of a few seconds. In addition to this, you can hit left/right while the banner is displayed to move through programmes on the same channel - so you can see what's coming up later. Hitting enter while a later show is displayed in the banner would set to record or remind that show. The Channel +/- buttons act differently in that they change the channel immediately so you don't need to use the "search-n-scan banner" (as I believe it's called) if you don't want to. I think I'm right in saying MP uses the arrow keys during full-screen TV for ffwd/rwd, but we could get something similar with the Zap OSD in MP with a relatively minor change requiring you to press Enter to change to the displayed channel - if it times out, just stay on the channel you were watching..? Edit: Oops, just re-read pirlone's post and realise this is basically what he's saying - I agree! [/QUOTE]

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