<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 11/03/2009, at 11:15 PM, Steve Hodge wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Steven Ellis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steven@openmedia.co.nz">steven@openmedia.co.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div style=""><div>I've been talking to some of my customers about their expectations and none of this really works for them</div><div><br></div><div>The general expectation is if they select a recording for TV3 it should automatically know to use TV3 PLUS1 as a backup channel etc.</div> <div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>I think MythTV has been developed on the assumption that channels will become fairly unimportant to users over time - people will tend to want to "record Prison Break", not "record Prison Break on channel 3".<br> <br>What would happen if you gave TV3 PLUS 1 the same callsign but a different xmltvid? I'm not 100% sure that would work, but it might do what you want.<br></div></div><br></blockquote><br></div><div>The problem is recording Prison Break from TV3 and not Sky etc. Series link does offer that to some degree by making sure you don't get duplicates and allow you to restrict recordings to a single season.</div><div><br></div><div>Another nice to have would be record in prime time only to avoid those middle of the week repeats of season 1.</div><div><br></div><div>Steve</div><div><br></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Steven Ellis - Technical Director<br>OpenMedia Limited<br>email - <a href="mailto:steven@openmedia.co.nz">steven@openmedia.co.nz</a><br>website - <a href="http://www.openmedia.co.nz/">http://www.openmedia.co.nz</a><br></div></div></span> </div><br></body></html>