- October 25, 2016
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Hi all
I may be wrong - but this appears to be something missing - I certainly can't get it to work...
In the (full) TV Guide it's only possible to move between channels by either using up and down arrows for single channel jump, or channel up / channel down to scroll the whole page. It would be really useful if you could also navigate by using channel numbers and also that this feature would work whether channel numbers are showing or not in the EPG itself.
My scenario:
I have around 250 channels in my TV Guide and as far as I know there isn't a very easy / quick way to number all the channels (only being able to edit each channel at a time to set a number) and as channels are provided by different services they have their own numbering system already - numbers are a right mess on my system!
However my channel list is organised into genres with the top of each genre given a distinct number IE
(Entertainment) BBC One 101
lots of random channels and numbers underneath
(News) BBC News 201
more news channels with random numbers
(Music) 4Music 301
more music channels
(Shopping) QVC 401
etc etc
I use a Harmony remote and set the various 'category' numbers as favourites - in MP1 i could push a favourite for say Music and they keys 301 would send to MP1 and the guide would jump to channel 301 4Music and be at the top of the music 'section'. In MP2 nothing happens. Channel zapping only works when watching a TV programme - so scrolling through several pages are required to get to the different channel selections. Also because channel numbering on my guide is a mess, it would be great if the feature could work regardless of whether channel numbers are shown or not!
I appreciate that i could create groups for the different genres - but for ease of use the logical solution seems to be being able to jump around the guide with numbers. this provides an easy way to navigate both for people like me with lots of randomly numbered channels who only then needs to take a small amount of time to number just a select few channels and also someone with a very organised channel number list who might know that BBC4 is on channel 117 or whatever and can jump the guide straight to it.
I may be wrong - but this appears to be something missing - I certainly can't get it to work...
In the (full) TV Guide it's only possible to move between channels by either using up and down arrows for single channel jump, or channel up / channel down to scroll the whole page. It would be really useful if you could also navigate by using channel numbers and also that this feature would work whether channel numbers are showing or not in the EPG itself.
My scenario:
I have around 250 channels in my TV Guide and as far as I know there isn't a very easy / quick way to number all the channels (only being able to edit each channel at a time to set a number) and as channels are provided by different services they have their own numbering system already - numbers are a right mess on my system!
However my channel list is organised into genres with the top of each genre given a distinct number IE
(Entertainment) BBC One 101
lots of random channels and numbers underneath
(News) BBC News 201
more news channels with random numbers
(Music) 4Music 301
more music channels
(Shopping) QVC 401
etc etc
I use a Harmony remote and set the various 'category' numbers as favourites - in MP1 i could push a favourite for say Music and they keys 301 would send to MP1 and the guide would jump to channel 301 4Music and be at the top of the music 'section'. In MP2 nothing happens. Channel zapping only works when watching a TV programme - so scrolling through several pages are required to get to the different channel selections. Also because channel numbering on my guide is a mess, it would be great if the feature could work regardless of whether channel numbers are shown or not!
I appreciate that i could create groups for the different genres - but for ease of use the logical solution seems to be being able to jump around the guide with numbers. this provides an easy way to navigate both for people like me with lots of randomly numbered channels who only then needs to take a small amount of time to number just a select few channels and also someone with a very organised channel number list who might know that BBC4 is on channel 117 or whatever and can jump the guide straight to it.