Why are setup menus always so badly designed?

Sep 30, 2009 23:24

I've just finished retuning my Freeview (for non-Brits, that's the digital terrestrial TV service) box to restore half the channels that disappeared today. This wasn't a surprise since they've been showing warning messages that it would happen for a few days (apparently they're moving some of the channel frequencies around to be able to fit HD  ( Read more... )

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kalorlo October 1 2009, 08:26:46 UTC
Wow. For our box, I'm pretty sure there's just a menu option to rescan. Owain did it when I wasn't looking :p

Our channel list was a huge mess afterwards, though - full of empty channels just saying 'This channel has moved to...' Hopefully it'll be tidied up by now.

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williamjm October 1 2009, 18:47:37 UTC
There was a "Scan for new channels" menu option which was the first thing I tried (several times), but it didn't seem to find anything.

One advantage of resetting the channel list was that everything did appear in the correct order afterwards, I suspect that if I'd just added the new channels (and it had worked) then there might be still a zombie Channel 5 as the fifth channel and the real Channel 5 at the end of the channel list. It also meant that new channels that have appeared over the past few years like Virgin 1 are now in a more reasonable place rather than at channel 804 as it used to be.

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peadarog October 1 2009, 09:02:10 UTC
Go on, give it a good kick! You'll feel better afterwards...

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williamjm October 1 2009, 18:48:35 UTC
It's too late now, the correct time to give it a kick is before it has been fixed. If I did it now the satisfaction of it might be outweighed by the fear that it might break things again ;)

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