[mythtv-users] Duplicate Channels Cleanup

[Michael T. Dean]

On 09/15/2014 07:50 PM, Eric Sharkey wrote:
> We went over this before.
>
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/570123#570123
>
> Just because you don't care about this kind of damage doesn't mean it
> isn't there.
>
> It's clear that neither one of us has changed our opinions since last
> May.  I'm not going to get into this one again (any more than I
> already have).

So you'd rather it say that your (ancient) show was recorded on SyFy, 
even though it was recorded on SciFi?  Or even worse, when you recorded 
that show on UPN, then your local UPN channel got turned into MyTV 
because there was also a WB channel in your market that got turned into 
CW, you want it to show that the recording came from your MyTV channel 
even though the rest of the series is airing on CW?  That seems like 
damage to me, versus just showing that the channel that aired the show 
doesn't exist.

It's simply saying, "recorded from a channel that no longer exists."  
IMHO, that's far more accurate than saying it was recorded from some 
channel other than the one that really aired it.  Besides, those 
recordings will be watched and deleted quickly or, if they're worth 
keeping, they'll be archived into the Video Library, that--unlike the 
Watch Recordings screen--was designed to handle large collections of videos.

Of course, if it really bothers you that much, just write a patch that 
changes the fallback for channel to use the station (which we store, and 
which contains the callsign) or some other value you feel is more 
appropriate.  I would fully support this because no user should ever see 
an internal database ID in the UI.

Mike