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<blockquote data-quote="doveman" data-source="post: 966991" data-attributes="member: 67412">I've used Freeview and Cable STB of course but they work very differently from MP as they don't have to Start/Stop LiveTV, they're constantly running when on so they have to be tuned to a channel, so they just default to the last channel watched when turned back on.&nbsp;It doesn't actually serve any useful purpose to do this though, because the chances of wanting to watch the same channel you were watching last night when you wake up and turn it back on are rather slim. It would actually make more sense for the STB to default to the EPG to allow you to select a channel but as STB don't Start/Stop TV then I guess it would still have to be tuned to a channel in the background. I guess strictly they could detune and not be playing a channel on resume, as they obviously have to be able to do this if a channel/signal can't be found but perhaps even with STB there's more of a delay going from detuned to tuned state, rather than just switching channel. Anyway, I think the fact that STB resume on the previous channel rather than the EPG is just a hangover from the days when TVs only had a few channels and no EPG and had to do this and no-one's bothered to stop and think whether this makes sense anymore.&nbsp;I've never even noticed that MP can resume on the same channel as I always tend to Stop TV when I've finished watching it but as I use my PC for other stuff, I don't necessarily put it in standby until later. I could leave TV running and just turn off the actual TV but that would occupy my CPU/GPU unnecessarily. Even if my PC was a dedicated HTPC though, I'd still want it to stop TV when going to standby and resume on the EPG (or whatever other page I find most convenient).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="doveman, post: 966991, member: 67412"] I've used Freeview and Cable STB of course but they work very differently from MP as they don't have to Start/Stop LiveTV, they're constantly running when on so they have to be tuned to a channel, so they just default to the last channel watched when turned back on. It doesn't actually serve any useful purpose to do this though, because the chances of wanting to watch the same channel you were watching last night when you wake up and turn it back on are rather slim. It would actually make more sense for the STB to default to the EPG to allow you to select a channel but as STB don't Start/Stop TV then I guess it would still have to be tuned to a channel in the background. I guess strictly they could detune and not be playing a channel on resume, as they obviously have to be able to do this if a channel/signal can't be found but perhaps even with STB there's more of a delay going from detuned to tuned state, rather than just switching channel. Anyway, I think the fact that STB resume on the previous channel rather than the EPG is just a hangover from the days when TVs only had a few channels and no EPG and had to do this and no-one's bothered to stop and think whether this makes sense anymore. I've never even noticed that MP can resume on the same channel as I always tend to Stop TV when I've finished watching it but as I use my PC for other stuff, I don't necessarily put it in standby until later. I could leave TV running and just turn off the actual TV but that would occupy my CPU/GPU unnecessarily. Even if my PC was a dedicated HTPC though, I'd still want it to stop TV when going to standby and resume on the EPG (or whatever other page I find most convenient). [/QUOTE]

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