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<blockquote data-quote="doveman" data-source="post: 672852" data-attributes="member: 67412"><p>I think it would be best if we just stick to considering how we could make MP easier for simple Freeview users first and then see if there's anything that can be done to help users with more complicated setups.</p><p></p><p>So using the channel names might be a possibility for Freeview, as I don't think it has several channels with the same name like Sat does. Don't Freeview channels have a preset associated number though. When you see adverts they say, "Channel One now on Freeview channel 49", so that's why I think they must have. Can't MP use these channel numbers instead of the IDs if the latter change every scan? I would imagine STB use these channel numbers, or else everytime the user rescanned any rearranging of channel order, etc in the EPG would be lost, which I don't think happens with most STB.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yeah, I forgot about the whole multiplex/frequency sharing issue (guess that coffee wasn't so good!). So frequency alone won't be any use, but maybe MP could see that most of the channels on that transponder still had the same names and then work out that the one that no longer had a match and which used to be Virgin1 must have changed to Channel One (of course this will only work if only one channel has changed on that transponder).</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I don't see why making the changes for Freeview would have any impact on everyone else. It could be a simple matter of an extra tickbox for each tuner to designate it as a Freeview tuner and thus to use the auto-mapping, etc and users with more complicated setups can just not tick that box.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="doveman, post: 672852, member: 67412"] I think it would be best if we just stick to considering how we could make MP easier for simple Freeview users first and then see if there's anything that can be done to help users with more complicated setups. So using the channel names might be a possibility for Freeview, as I don't think it has several channels with the same name like Sat does. Don't Freeview channels have a preset associated number though. When you see adverts they say, "Channel One now on Freeview channel 49", so that's why I think they must have. Can't MP use these channel numbers instead of the IDs if the latter change every scan? I would imagine STB use these channel numbers, or else everytime the user rescanned any rearranging of channel order, etc in the EPG would be lost, which I don't think happens with most STB. Yeah, I forgot about the whole multiplex/frequency sharing issue (guess that coffee wasn't so good!). So frequency alone won't be any use, but maybe MP could see that most of the channels on that transponder still had the same names and then work out that the one that no longer had a match and which used to be Virgin1 must have changed to Channel One (of course this will only work if only one channel has changed on that transponder). I don't see why making the changes for Freeview would have any impact on everyone else. It could be a simple matter of an extra tickbox for each tuner to designate it as a Freeview tuner and thus to use the auto-mapping, etc and users with more complicated setups can just not tick that box. [/QUOTE]
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