Channel Surfing Feature Request

taltman · #1 01-20-2005, 03:27 AM

Ok here is an idea I had. I have comcast cable tv. When I'm watching something I can browse to see what is playing on the neighboring channels - by hitting the up and down arrows. Now lets do this in Sage!

Example: I watch channel 40. If I hit the down arrow, I can see the title and some other information about whats playing on Channel 39, then Channel 38, etc. While browsing if I hit the right arrow I can see what is playing at 30 minutes ahead, etc. If there is something I like I can select it to be recorded (actually i can tell it to remind me, i'd like sage to record it).

Anyone like to see this? Basically what I want to do is the following all at the same time:

1) keep recording what I'm watching
2) browse to see what else is playing on other channels without changing the channel.
3) find other stuff to watch and add it to my schedule to record it later on

#2 doesn't work right now that well - I like to watch the video in the background instead of a window. So when I go to the guides the video playback disappears. I'd like to get a partial popup to see what is playing on the nearby channels. So i can continue to see the movie/show I'm watching...

Ok i'll get off my soap box =). Thanks guys!

mdmint · #2 01-20-2005, 03:46 AM

Not bad ideas, might as well add PIP well you're at it!

(Since I think want you want will require a free unused tuner anyway which for me normally not a problem.)

Wheemer · #3 01-20-2005, 04:20 AM

PIP would me amazing... I would love that!

nielm · #4 01-20-2005, 04:41 AM

With the default STV, change the video menu settings to 'background'. This makes the menus semi-transparent and allows browsing the TV guide, or any other menu while video plays in the background.
(with VMR9 renderer this works well, with the Overlay renderer , you need v2.2.2 or higher, and set 3d accelleration disabled, and overlay color keying enabled in detailed setup/advanced)

But I know what you would prefer: a mini-guide that occupies a small amount of screen space that pops up when you hit arrow keys in the full screen video mode.
I believe both Cayar's STV and SageMC has this...

Quote:

Originally Posted by taltman

Ok here is an idea I had. I have comcast cable tv. When I'm watching something I can browse to see what is playing on the neighboring channels - by hitting the up and down arrows. Now lets do this in Sage!

justme · #5 01-20-2005, 04:51 AM

IIRC, I believe the miniguide first showed in mlbdude's STVs. So you'd think SageMC would have it but I don't use SageMC so I'm not sure.

Anyway, I love the whole miniguide idea and feel it should be part of the default STV(enabled by an option of course).

/justme

technix · #6 01-20-2005, 10:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by taltman

Ok here is an idea I had. I have comcast cable tv. When I'm watching something I can browse to see what is playing on the neighboring channels - by hitting the up and down arrows. Now lets do this in Sage!

Example: I watch channel 40. If I hit the down arrow, I can see the title and some other information about whats playing on Channel 39, then Channel 38, etc. While browsing if I hit the right arrow I can see what is playing at 30 minutes ahead, etc. If there is something I like I can select it to be recorded (actually i can tell it to remind me, i'd like sage to record it).

Anyone like to see this? Basically what I want to do is the following all at the same time:

1) keep recording what I'm watching
2) browse to see what else is playing on other channels without changing the channel.
3) find other stuff to watch and add it to my schedule to record it later on

#2 doesn't work right now that well - I like to watch the video in the background instead of a window. So when I go to the guides the video playback disappears. I'd like to get a partial popup to see what is playing on the nearby channels. So i can continue to see the movie/show I'm watching...

Ok i'll get off my soap box =). Thanks guys!

these features are in most of the sage stv's as an option called mini guide.

jeffw · #7 01-20-2005, 01:59 PM

With my hauppage remote, i just hit the green button that says go i believe, and a very slick nice looking bar pops up that takes up less than 1/8th of the screen i'd say...and i'm able to browse channels using that, if i want to watch it, i hit ok...

Is this the mini-guide? I don't know...

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Originally Posted by technix

these features are in most of the sage stv's as an option called mini guide.

taltman · #8 01-21-2005, 08:03 PM

Thanks for all the replies everyone...I'm using Cayars Ultimate STV. Does he have a mini guide?

Perhaps I should start beta testing version 2.2....

/Tal

abasu2003 · #9 01-22-2005, 03:29 PM

Cayars has a miniguide. You can enable/disable it through Setup->Detailed Setup->Enhanced->Enhancements OSD Options->Mini-Guide Options

Search through his thread for more info on the settings

taltman · #10 01-25-2005, 02:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by abasu2003

Cayars has a miniguide. You can enable/disable it through Setup->Detailed Setup->Enhanced->Enhancements OSD Options->Mini-Guide Options

Search through his thread for more info on the settings

Abasu2003 u da Man!

That fixed it for me. Plus with downloading the TV logos from another thread on this forum I have a good portion of the logos I need. The remaining tv logos I grabed from satlogo.

/Tdogg

m1ketuck · #11 01-29-2005, 04:45 PM

i have created by own custom menu system the way i like it so dont want to install one of the stv's does anyone know if a miniguide can be imported as a module?

Cayars · #12 01-29-2005, 05:16 PM

No imports available for this type of thing.

samson · #13 01-29-2005, 05:22 PM

What about if you have multible tuners
I would like if I was watching channel 2 and changed the channel to channel 11 to be able to go back and forth without having to hit record on both channels

technix · #14 01-29-2005, 10:58 PM

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Originally Posted by samson

What about if you have multible tuners
I would like if I was watching channel 2 and changed the channel to channel 11 to be able to go back and forth without having to hit record on both channels

There is a previious channel event code look around page 152 in the manual

nerys · #15 02-11-2005, 12:17 AM

HEY you know what would rock ?? show 2-3-4 etc.. tuners ON the screen simultaneously split screen style !!!

then whichever one I "click" on is the one I am interacting with and the one I hear the audio from.

this would be especially nice if I am toggling between two channels etc.. ie both on screen full motion audio for whatever one I click on

this is less an issue with multi tuners though since you can simply "record" the two or 3 showings etc.. :-) useless for me since i do not watch throug sage but I can see hoiw many would find this quite usefull and it has a coolness factor to it :-)

Chris Taylor
http://www.zodiacreview.com/

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