On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:25:30 -0800, Brad Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Neither outcome is great. All the other PVRs I have seen default > to expiring old recordings, are there others that don't? It is my > taste but it need not be everybody's.
IMHO, one should try to mimic the behaviour of retail DVRs. My JVC DVR does not expire recordings, and shows how much disk space is left (in hours) at the current recording quality. I am unfortunately not aware how it handles a full disk situation since it recently died on me :-( (probably faulty harddrive) What needs to be done (IMHO) is: Add a "remaining disk space" (in hours) text somewhere in the UI. It need not be very big, or even have an explanation associated with it, however, the user should be able to select it to get more information about what it is showing, what recording quality is selected, how many actual gigabytes are free, etc. In addition, when setting up a recording, if the user chooses that the recording should auto-expire, and auto-expire is set a zero, a (clickable) warning symbol should pop up next to the checkbox informing the user that it will never expire unless (s)he activates the global auto-expire. If the user sets up a recurring recording, or one which can potentially recur, and auto-expire on the recording (or globally) is off, the same should occur. At least in MythWeb, the warning symbol could be done with CSS, DHTML and/or JavaScript. Just my 0.25dkk (~$0.05), Jens
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