My 1st thread woop! I'm in trial area for new Tivo style (sort of lol) OD search

[windy]

Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic

There's been a slight delay to the last few areas,, hang in there Windy

I will try and "hang in there"..

[Digital Fanatic]

Originally Posted by windy

I will try and "hang in there"..

[muppetman11]

I take it this hasn't arrived in Wigan yet as my box doesn't seem to have it ?

[gadge]

Hasn't arrived here in staffs yet either.

[withitnow]

This sounds really good. I use On Demand alot and this would help. Any ideas when it will be in the Portsmouth area?

[Felim_Doyle]

Originally Posted by BikeNutt

1) A search option should be placed on the main menu
2) Make the "ALL OD" category the default search category
3) If a search does not return any programmes in the default search category, you cannot press left to the preceding category. You can only press right to the next category. (pressing left just backspaces your previous input string). This would not be such a problem if 2) above was implemented.
4) Page numbers are not in the usual format (page x of y).

All of the above and this ...

I just bought one of the old Pace remote control keyboards on eBay and I can't get it to work with the search facility. It assumes that you are using a numeric remote control and it does not offer the standard editing interface that you use with e-mail etc. (see also 3 regarding left arrow/backspace above) so you have to use the numeric keys on the keyboard to generate letters, spaces and punctuation!

[BenMcr]

To be honest that's because the Keyboards haven't been sold or supported by Virgin for several years now, so the services aren't tested for compatability against them

[Felim_Doyle]

They've deviated from the standard interface that is used elsewhere and that customers are familiar with. Even the left arrow key cannot be used for navigation! The Blue button is supposed to be Delete and Green should toggle between Numeric and Alpha input.

Tell them to confirm to the existing user interface standards both for text editing and navigation!

I think the screen looks a bit ropey too. The navigation tabs just don't look right.

[mr.munky]

Originally Posted by Felim_Doyle

They've deviated from the standard interface that is used elsewhere and that customers are familiar with. Even the left arrow key cannot be used for navigation! The Blue button is supposed to be Delete and Green should toggle between Numeric and Alpha input.

Tell them to confirm to the existing user interface standards both for text editing and navigation!

I think the screen looks a bit ropey too. The navigation tabs just don't look right.

The navigation on the search screen is a little more complex than on others, but to clarify:

Green - used for Page Up (as is elsewhere).

Blue - could have been used for delete; however that relegates the "More Like This" functionality to an option from the (i) button programme info screen, hence the deviation.

Left button deletes characters while the text input field is highlighted (watch the arrow indication - you will see it change when switching highlight from the results area to the input field). Once you have results, left button will let you switch categories to the left unless you use the up button to put highlight back on the text input field or use number keys to change the search term.

[jtaylor06]

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That would make more sense wouldn't it?
The yellow button seems to be neglected at times

[kgollop]

Originally Posted by jtaylor06

That would make more sense wouldn't it?
The yellow button seems to be neglected at times

Can you add a "Play all" button in for me?

[jtaylor06]

You just reminded me, i've missed out some info about the blue button
The "More like this" would be replaced with "[Blue] Delete" when inside the text box.

A play all button would be very good. Would be nice to make playlists on the fly too, hopefully a feature for Tivo?

[Ben B]

As of Thursday I have this delightful new search that confuses me

[jtaylor06]

You will hopefully get used to it It's very helpful!

[Ben B]

Originally Posted by jtaylor06

You will hopefully get used to it It's very helpful!

Yeah, I actually like it now, so good especially the TV guide search