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<div>I agree. This has actually been bothering me since I first saw
that message (I only have one tuner, so I see it alot). If you have
multiple tuners, it should give you multiple options also (at least
for the "Watch" option) to minimize the number of button
presses you need to take the most likely action. Deleting a recording,
because it is destructive, could take an additional step or two, such
as:</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>---</div>
<div>All available tuners are busy. What would you like to do?</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>< Return to the previous menu ></div>
<div>- Watch currently recording "The Simpson's"</div>
<div>- Watch currently recording "The Apprentice"</div>
<div>- Delete a recording and watch TV</div>
<div>---</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>Selecting "Delete a recording..." would bring up the
following if more than one tuner is present. It would skip to the
confirmation if only one tuner exists:</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>---</div>
<div>Delete which recording?</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>< Return to the previous menu ></div>
<div>- Delete currently recording "The Simpson's"</div>
<div>- Delete currently recording "The Apprentice"</div>
<div>---</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>And then the confirmation for doing something that your
wife/partner/roommate might hate you for:</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>---</div>
<div>This will stop the recording and permanently delete anything
recorded so far for this program. Are you sure?</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>< Cancel ></div>
<div>- Yes, Delete "The Simpson's"</div>
<div>---</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>On a related topic, I also wonder why Myth only allows full
program records. For example, in the above example, in my mind, it
shouldn't delete the recording that has already occurred, simply stop
where it is and maybe add "(incomplete)" to the title in the
recordings list. Also, if you hit the "record button" while
watching live tv, and then hit it again to stop a recording, it would
be great if it saved the portion you recorded as a
"(clip)".</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>Regards,</div>
<div>Brad</div>
<div><br></div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana"
color="#000000"> On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 18:10:43 +0200, Markus
Meissner <mlist@meissner.it> wrote:</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana" color="#660066">>
Hi,</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana"
color="#660066">></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana"
color="#660066"> > I've got a suggestion for the dialog you
get when select "TV" while every card</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana" color="#660066">>
is recording. The dialog says in more than 4 lines (in German) that
the box</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana" color="#660066">>
is busy recording and that you can either delete the current recording
in the</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana" color="#660066">>
"Delete"-menu or watch the recording by selecting the
"Play"-menu (sorry,</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana" color="#660066">>
don't know the exact menu-items in english). This has got a very low
WAF</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana" color="#660066">>
(woman acceptance factor). I would suggest:</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana"
color="#660066">></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana"
color="#660066"> > Remove the long explaining text and add
more options to dialog. My wife won't</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana" color="#660066">>
read the dialog because the font is too small _and_ the text is so
large (I</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana" color="#660066">>
think the main part is the text length). It would be better if there
were two</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana" color="#660066">>
more options:</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana"
color="#660066">></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana"
color="#660066"> > - Skip the current recording (which will
delete it)</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana" color="#660066">>
- Watch the current recording</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana"
color="#660066">></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana"
color="#660066"> > If this is a problem when some tuner are
recording some programs (more than</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana" color="#660066">>
one) I would at least suggest to add an option like "go to the
tv-menu".</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana"
color="#660066">></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana"
color="#660066"> > What do you think?</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana"
color="#660066">></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana"
color="#660066"> > --</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana" color="#660066">>
Beste Gruesse / Best regards Markus Meissner</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana"
color="#000000"><br></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">I
like the idea. My wife complained about this last night after
I</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana"
color="#000000">upgraded to 16.</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">She
suggested an option on the warning screen that lets her cancel
the</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana"
color="#000000">recording and watch live TV.</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana"
color="#000000"><br></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana"
color="#000000">Since it would suck if she canceled a show that won't
air again, maybe</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">the
option could be hidden if the show can't be found later in
the</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana"
color="#000000">guide, and make the option say something like:
"Record this show</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana"
color="#000000">tomorrow at 3am and let me watch TV
now."</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana"
color="#000000"><br></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana"
color="#000000">--</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana"
color="#000000"> Anton</font></blockquote>
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