Hi Chris. Let me join in on your brainstorm!
1) Grouping of channels can be thought of as imposing a hiererchy on them, but is one level of hierarchy enough?
2) Navigating a list can be hard if it is long. Jumping between levels in a hierarchy can be hard in a different way. Easy in a GUI with a mouse, but harder with just a remote, especially if you don't want too show a menu (e.g. In LiveTV and you want a channel change)
3) We currently have "the list of setup channels", and favourites under that. It sounds like we need at least a "New Channels" group to be added soon?
I also would like to be able to group channels, but mainly from the point of view of better navigation.
a) I have been thinking of having up/down go between groups at the top level, and then left and right iterate through that group's items. e.g.:
Genre Channel ID Kids 1003, 1004, 1012, 1017 Comedy 1008, 1022, 1031, 1037, 1044, 1049, 1055 Drama 1002, 1018, 1026, 1039, 1040, 1041 Shopping 1007, 1009, 1010, 1011 News 1000, 1001, 1040 Shares 1006
If I am watching a comedy channel, "down" would go to the first channel in the drama group, and then to shopping, then the news, and then to shares. (I suspect there is nowhere more depressing to go from there :-)
b) If I have any favorites set, changing group would start with my favorite in that group
Of course, the problem with coding this up is that it won't suit everyone - heck, it doesn't even suit me. I actually want something like:
Network/ChannelID Channel/PID ABC/1003 SD/512, HD/2307 TCN/1001 SD/512, HD/577, Guide/619 NBN/1002 SD/513, HD/577, Guide/609 TEN/1004 SD/512, HD/514 SBS/1005 SD/161, HD/162, Guide/163
to cope with the weird Australian digital TV system. (each current "channel" would be a group of DVB channels)
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