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"Name" or "Series" vs. "Program" in EPG

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DeaneG:
RoderickGI,

Thank you again for your more-than-patient explanations to this new user.

I have been very impressed with the recording functionality (rules etc) in MC. I don't propose changing any functionality, rather am just trying to clarify the GUI for myself an/or other noobs.

It wasn't obvious to me that if there was a colon in the Program field, the text before the colon represented "Series", and the text after it, "Name". Or if no colon, then just "Name".

My input with this information from you, to help other noobs come up to speed more quickly, is just that the GUI's EPG column heading "Program" could be changed to:

     Program (Series: Name)
or      Program [Series:] Name

See attached mockup. This edit would better explain what the "Series" and "Name" fields contain for each program, and maybe clue in the user that "Program" if used elsewhere in the GUI means [Series:] Name.

RoderickGI:
That's not a bad idea. Although it wouldn't always be correct, for example when only the series name is known, and not the episode name, but it would clarify the column contents are little for new users.

The developers may argue that "Program" is a generic term that almost everyone would understand, or that "Program ([Series:] Name)" would be more accurate. But anything that indicated that Program could be a concatenation of the [Series] and [Name] fields, separated by a colon, wouldn't be a bad thing.

Maybe I would prefer tooltips for that sort of clarification though, so as not to clutter up the User Interface for experienced users, but still have the information available for new users.

It is up to the main TV developer, Yaobing, as to what is done though.

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