<div dir="ltr"><div><div>> 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.<br><br></div>Yea, they'll be the same people who work as Sales Prevention Officers (sometimes mistakenly called Customer Services Departments).<br><br></div>Hope it's of use to someone.<br></div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 September 2014 14:46, Simon Hobson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:linux@thehobsons.co.uk" target="_blank">linux@thehobsons.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">Another Sillyname <<a href="mailto:anothersname@googlemail.com">anothersname@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> The UK freeview channels did a retune/renumber yesterday 4th September<br>
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</div>Minor detail, but yesterday was the 3rd<br>
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> , 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).<br>
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</div>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.<br>
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> The following script should allow you to quickly setup the channels in a usable format again.<br>
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<div class="">> This script is based on ones I think I found in the wiki years ago, all credit to anyone who wants it.<br>
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</div>See also <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Database_editing_script" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Database_editing_script</a> and <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/UK_Channel_Assignments" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/UK_Channel_Assignments</a><br>
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