The disadvantage of the old single letter search was that many people have a lot of shows starting with a given letter. The virtual keyboard allows for the user to input multiple letters as search string, thereby reducing the amount of pages to go through when looking for a specific show.
Sure - the multiple character search is cool - but would still work.
The best of both worlds would be to also still allow the option of a single letter via the numbers on remote.
That would avoid need of onscreen keyboard (or physical keyboard) for most people.
Probably even better would be proper multi-char entry via abc, def etc from remote.
Does MP support this already?
New Zealand