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<blockquote data-quote="Marcusb" data-source="post: 55328" data-attributes="member: 11550">If you mean the fact that MP deletes the timeshift buffer when the channel is changed, that is rather a can of worms and the topic usually ends up getting closed.To sum it up, timeshift material never used to get deleted when the channel was changed.&nbsp; This meant that if you changed channels by accident then you could simply change back.&nbsp; You only missed the slight period while you were on a different channel.A long time ago, this was reported as a bug.&nbsp; When it was &quot;fixed&quot; there were a lot of people who requested this behaviour back again but also a lot of people who were very against it.&nbsp; Strangely, the people who were against it had no better reason than &quot;Well, it just shouldn't, should it?&quot; and a few even didn't ever use TV or timeshift, but were still against it.When v.2 came out, the behaviour was back and every one was happy.&nbsp; Then one of the &quot;no&quot; group noticed (eventually) and the &quot;bug&quot; was &quot;fixed&quot; again.There have also been lots of possible solutions which involved a lot of configurable options and lots of asking dialog boxes for channel changes&nbsp; but all this seems to do is make changing channels *very* much more complicated when really all that is needed is to re-instate this behaviour and the people who don't like it simply just don't rewind after channel changes.&nbsp; If they accidentally rewind, they can simply fast forward and thus avoid whatever disaster they were afraid of all along.Sorry, I know my post is pretty inflamatory, but I think it's pretty clear what my view on the matter was.&nbsp; Also, if I have misunderstood your request, sorry for the accidental thread hijack.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Marcusb, post: 55328, member: 11550"] If you mean the fact that MP deletes the timeshift buffer when the channel is changed, that is rather a can of worms and the topic usually ends up getting closed. To sum it up, timeshift material never used to get deleted when the channel was changed. This meant that if you changed channels by accident then you could simply change back. You only missed the slight period while you were on a different channel. A long time ago, this was reported as a bug. When it was "fixed" there were a lot of people who requested this behaviour back again but also a lot of people who were very against it. Strangely, the people who were against it had no better reason than "Well, it just shouldn't, should it?" and a few even didn't ever use TV or timeshift, but were still against it. When v.2 came out, the behaviour was back and every one was happy. Then one of the "no" group noticed (eventually) and the "bug" was "fixed" again. There have also been lots of possible solutions which involved a lot of configurable options and lots of asking dialog boxes for channel changes but all this seems to do is make changing channels *very* much more complicated when really all that is needed is to re-instate this behaviour and the people who don't like it simply just don't rewind after channel changes. If they accidentally rewind, they can simply fast forward and thus avoid whatever disaster they were afraid of all along. Sorry, I know my post is pretty inflamatory, but I think it's pretty clear what my view on the matter was. Also, if I have misunderstood your request, sorry for the accidental thread hijack. [/QUOTE]

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