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FreeView, will it catch on?
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<blockquote data-quote="2old4this" data-source="post: 13398" data-attributes="member: 174998"><p>It would be an utterly trivial task to implement channel re-sequencing and renaming on Sky - pre-loaded EPG or not. So long as the software internally uses an unchanging unique sequence number/ident for each channel, the name displayable by the user could be changed at will. It would be a five-minute coding job for any half-competent programmer. Sky choose not to do this presumably because they wish to artificially generate value in occupying one of the higher numbers (broadcasters pay much more to have a higher slot in the EPG). The American cable companies run the same system. It is just another insidious example of how the hapless consumer is manipulated. Before Sky, no-one thought twice about this. It was just a given that one was able to tune the TV according to one's own preferences. </p><p></p><p>Imagine how much more user-friendly the whole silly system would be if we were able to shuffle the channels to put our own personal favourites at the top, and discard the rest - just as we are able to do with every other single tuning device in our lives.</p><p></p><p>So thinking about it, Rolf, I agree - the fact that the Sky system offers so much chaff with no facility for pruning does indeed make it messy to use.</p><p></p><p>2old</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="2old4this, post: 13398, member: 174998"] It would be an utterly trivial task to implement channel re-sequencing and renaming on Sky - pre-loaded EPG or not. So long as the software internally uses an unchanging unique sequence number/ident for each channel, the name displayable by the user could be changed at will. It would be a five-minute coding job for any half-competent programmer. Sky choose not to do this presumably because they wish to artificially generate value in occupying one of the higher numbers (broadcasters pay much more to have a higher slot in the EPG). The American cable companies run the same system. It is just another insidious example of how the hapless consumer is manipulated. Before Sky, no-one thought twice about this. It was just a given that one was able to tune the TV according to one's own preferences. Imagine how much more user-friendly the whole silly system would be if we were able to shuffle the channels to put our own personal favourites at the top, and discard the rest - just as we are able to do with every other single tuning device in our lives. So thinking about it, Rolf, I agree - the fact that the Sky system offers so much chaff with no facility for pruning does indeed make it messy to use. 2old [/QUOTE]
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