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<blockquote data-quote="jameson_uk" data-source="post: 672843" data-attributes="member: 11220"><p>Channels only get a new ID when they are first added to the database. If you delete all the channels and rescan every channel will get a new ID. Unfortunately channel name is no good either... eg. on satellite there are several different versions of e4 (some encypted some not). I have the FTA and Freeview channels combined (one ID in the database) but the encrypted ones are still there with their own channel IDs. If the Freeview channels were deleted and rescanned I would now have several e4 channels, which one should MP choose for my e4 schedules?</p><p></p><p></p><p>Then you have the problem with frequencies... some channels have multiple frequencies so you may have several different frequencies for one channel so it is not a case of choosing one but several and then how will MP know what to do? (remember that on Freeview one frequeny will contain several channels, MP knows there are x channels on that transponder but how can it know that Virgin1 is now called Channel One ?)</p><p></p><p>I know you are talking about Freeview here but to make this sort of change just for Freeview could have a massive impact on everyone else. I am still thinking about this as I believe there are improvements to be made but we need to be very careful about doing so</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jameson_uk, post: 672843, member: 11220"] Channels only get a new ID when they are first added to the database. If you delete all the channels and rescan every channel will get a new ID. Unfortunately channel name is no good either... eg. on satellite there are several different versions of e4 (some encypted some not). I have the FTA and Freeview channels combined (one ID in the database) but the encrypted ones are still there with their own channel IDs. If the Freeview channels were deleted and rescanned I would now have several e4 channels, which one should MP choose for my e4 schedules? Then you have the problem with frequencies... some channels have multiple frequencies so you may have several different frequencies for one channel so it is not a case of choosing one but several and then how will MP know what to do? (remember that on Freeview one frequeny will contain several channels, MP knows there are x channels on that transponder but how can it know that Virgin1 is now called Channel One ?) I know you are talking about Freeview here but to make this sort of change just for Freeview could have a massive impact on everyone else. I am still thinking about this as I believe there are improvements to be made but we need to be very careful about doing so [/QUOTE]
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