Bob - could I request a new feature whereby pressing OK in the EPG always takes you to live TV irrespective of the current recording status of the programme selected. This is exactly the functionality of the native Toppy EPG which in this respect seems logical and consistent behaviour to me.

I guess that could work, especially if you're given to using Play to explicitly tell the Toppy to start from the beginning. I never did like the Toppy implementation where Play resumed and OK started from the beginning. OK is an acceptance of the current state, whereas Play is a direct instruction in my book.

so what I would like to see is a pop up box when a recording is selected that gives 2 options....

A) Play from last view point
B) Play from begining

Can we have a vote as to whether people like this idea and whether it should be implemented?

I never did like the Toppy implementation where Play resumed and OK started from the beginning. OK is an acceptance of the current state, whereas Play is a direct instruction in my book.

What we possibly COULD do to round out the options regarding Live / Chase Play is
1. to be consistent about what happens when you change channel, regardless of how you do it (e.g. P+/P- (whether in N&N or with no OSDs up), numeric keys, EPG, etc.)

2. to have an option as to whether switching to a different channel will start chase play from the beginning of an active recording on that channel or go to Live

Sounds good, except I think that the first option should be to go to the last position in chase play, because I'm not convinced that going back to the start of a recording every time you change channel would be terribly useful.

I really don't like that idea - for the reasons you said. Personally I'd want a simple rule that going to a channel takes you to live unless you do it using the Play button in which case it takes you to the beginning.

If you want to go back to the last point you were playing then the Slow button can do that for you. This is all much simpler and isn't affected by whether the recording is still going or not.

This raises a question though: when you change to a channel that had been chase-playing before, but where the recording has now finished, should it go back to playing the recording, or show the live program?

Going to live would mean that the behaviour of a channel change would depend on something that's not immediately obvious to the user. Therefore I think it should play the recording, until it either finishes or you press Stop to return the channel to live mode.

This raises a question though: when you change to a channel that had been chase-playing before, but where the recording has now finished, should it go back to playing the recording, or show the live program?

Going to live would mean that the behaviour of a channel change would depend on something that's not immediately obvious to the user. Therefore I think it should play the recording, until it either finishes or you press Stop to return the channel to live mode.

For example SWMBO is chase playing Eastenders on a Monday night but only gets halfway through so I change the channel to BBC2 to watch something else until the end of the evening. Then on Tuesday evening I sit down to watch the BBC1 news at 6pm, I select BBC1 in the EPG and I get to see the second half of Eastenders from the night before

No - it's actually very logical if you understand that the reason behind it is to prevent you from seeing something at the end of a programme before you've seen the beginning.

Chase Play should only be invoked (assuming your setting says you'd like it at all) while the recorded programme is still showing. In other words, you will always be taken to the programme that's showing now. The only thing that varies is whether or not you're protected from seeing the end of it before the beginning.

Julie