Dirk, I agree to this, tailoring the user interface for specific tasks is always a good idea.
For the "expert" user, we could always have the old-style tv-guide (all info on one screen) hanging around as a plugin or so.
Richard.
Dirk Meyer wrote:
Richard van Paasen wrote:
Another idea for the textual version of the tv guide is to restrict the information on one page to either one channel or one time-box. Browsing through the tv guide "pages" (either channels or time boxes) then can be done with the left/right keys on the remote. Walking through rows on a page with up/down.
E.g. (channel mode):
Channel 1 08.00 program 1.... 08.10 program 2.... 09.00 program 3.... 10.30 program 4.... 18.00 program 5.... ...
E.g. (time-box mode):
Programs running at 08.05: Channel 1 Program w Channel 2 Program x Channel 3 Program y Channel 4 Program z ...
The tv-guide should be able to toggle between "time-box" and "channels" mode. This way more space (i.e. the total width of the screen) is available for a tv guide entry. Time-box mode could step by 5 minutes or so when pressing the left/right (pageing) key.
Hope this description is clear enough, mail me otherwise!
I just had a similar idea. Why not two types of tv guides. We use the tv guide for two reasons: watching tv now and recording. Both have different needs:
Watching now: I want to know what's up at this time on all
channels. This is the time boxed mode from above. It is similar to the
current guide but you can't select a program, you select a channel. If
you select a program in 3 minutes, you still get the channel and the
program starts in 3 minutes. So selecting channels is the logic here.
Record: I know the channel, so a simple listing area is want we want
here. Everyone who tried to record a program the day after tomorrow
knows that the current guide can't handle this well.
Now we only need a way to switch between the two ways.
Comments requested before I do this.
Dischi
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