[mythtv-users] UK, Mainly Crystal Palace re-channeling...Channel Renumber Script

[Another Sillyname]

> Yup - it's even more a pain on TVs with a crap UI designed by a blind no
armed cretin with a brief to make it as hard as possible to achieve ! I am
convinced that certain manufacturers have a usability section - whose sole
job is to spot unreasonably usable features and redesign them to be harder
to use.

Yea, they'll be the same people who work as Sales Prevention Officers
(sometimes mistakenly called Customer Services Departments).

Hope it's of use to someone.


On 4 September 2014 14:46, Simon Hobson <linux at thehobsons.co.uk> wrote:

> Another Sillyname <anothersname at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > The UK freeview channels did a retune/renumber yesterday 4th September
>
> Minor detail, but yesterday was the 3rd
>
> > , this can be a PITA as it can require a lot of manual messing around to
> get the channels resorted the way you way (and remove the 'garbage'
> channels from the visible lists).
>
> Yup - it's even more a pain on TVs with a crap UI designed by a blind no
> armed cretin with a brief to make it as hard as possible to achieve ! I am
> convinced that certain manufacturers have a usability section - whose sole
> job is to spot unreasonably usable features and redesign them to be harder
> to use.
>
> > The following script should allow you to quickly setup the channels in a
> usable format again.
> <snip>
> > This script is based on ones I think I found in the wiki years ago, all
> credit to anyone who wants it.
>
> See also http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Database_editing_script and
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/UK_Channel_Assignments
>
>
>
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