[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #2075: New Page for Mythweb Settings...

[Rudy Zijlstra]

Petr Stehlik wrote:

>MythTV píše v Čt 24. 08. 2006 v 07:09 +0000:
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>> So this thing changes the channum in order to rearrange things?  Is this
>> actually useful to people?  Here in the US, the channum is pretty
>> important to things like tuning
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>I don't have anything with the #2075 but I felt like explaining:
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>here in EU/CZ the channum is usually a number ranging from 1 to number
>of channels, totally unrelated to tuning, and people like to rearrange
>it so that say CT1 (Czech Television Channel 1) is on number 1, CT2 on
>number 2 etc. I thought this would be something specific to our few
>analog channels (so that people can quickly select the channel by
>pressing just one number on the remote) but recently I've seen a DVB-S
>set-top box and that one set channums from 1 to 483 (483 = number of all
>tuned channels, channum assigned incrementally to all found stations)
>and offered a simple way of rearranging the order of stations (thus
>changing their channums).
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>Petr
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Indeed, and as a result - on analog TV,  channum 4 and higher in the 
netherlands is very dependent on who has done the arranging... Which is 
all to the good, as it means that the lower channel numbers have the 
channels which are most popular with that household. (The lower three 
are most always NED1, 2 and 3.)

Most STB have beside a operator filled list, 1 or more favorite lists 
for people to populate according to their wishes. The operator 
determined list is usually not editable, in order to assist the help desk.

Cheers,

Rudy