[mythtv-users] Live TV auto switch tuners

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Oct 9, 2007, at 8:14 AM, jason maxwell wrote:

>> Your "regular old TV" allows you to surf through the analog channels
>> using its built in tuner, then surf through the digital channels  
>> output
>> from the STB to the S-Video/Component/whatever input of your TV  
>> all with
>> the channel up and channel down buttons?  That's pretty impressive.
>
> Not quite, but yes. I have no STB. I have cable plugged directly into
> my QAM tuner equipped TV. So right now, the wife can just click
> up/down channel and see analog and digital channels without doing
> anything else. The TV handles switching between tuners on the fly,
> because it realizes that when you press up channel, you want to see
> the next channel, regardless of what tuner it comes from. Surely Myth
> is smarter than some off the shelf TV set. :)
>
> What I'd like to remedy are the situations when she says "How come I
> cant pause/rewind this? This is stupid". If the feature now exists,
> awesome, otherwise I'll play with the EPG selection settings like you
> suggest and see how she likes that.
> Thanks,
> -J

I'd like to avoid the situation where I can hit channel UP/DOWN and  
see things that I can't watch because that tuner is in use. I don't  
think there is a solution that works in all situations.