<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 5:08 PM, Steve Hodge wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 3:59 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;"> Any thoughts on best practise to handle a PLUS1 channel now that TV3 PLUS1<br> is due to start at the end of the month.<br> <br> It will need to be a distinct callsign as the epg data is different from<br> TV3, but how should scheduling be managed.<br> </blockquote><div><br>Yes, distinct callsign and xmltvid. </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I agree</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br> For example I might be happy to record "Prison Break" off TV3 or TV3 PLUS1<br> so I'd select find once a week on any channel. Now if Sky are showing it<br> things start to break.<br> </blockquote><div><br>Not really. Just record them all and delete what you don't want. Or set up a power rule. Or set the priority on the Sky channel lower.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Shame there doesn't appear to a way to link a group of channels together<br> into a single virtual channel to allow for these timeshift versions.<br> </blockquote><div><br>I think that would be over complicating things for little real benefit. <br></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><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><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>