[barbeler]

I've just received TalkTalk YouView box, so took my Humax HDR2000T to my dad's house. He always gets confused by the channel order, so I made him a Favourites list with what I thought was a reasonably logical order; something like Sky News and BBC News at the top, followed by BBC1HD, BBC2HD, BBC3HD, BBC4HD, ITVHD, ITV2, ITV3, ITV4, Ch4HD, etc, etc, putting all the most watched channels together and relegating all the crap to the bottom. Personally, I put all the ITV channels near the bottom but I thought I'd leave them there for him.

My sister found this most objectionable as she thinks channel number is the most logical order and wonders how you're supposed to find anything on my list. Now one of us must either have severe OCD but which one of us is it? It seems ridiculous to me, to have to scroll through page after page for the scattered main channels when they could all be within a couple of scroll-downs.

One thing I seriously dislike about the YouView box is that you're stuck with the channels in numerical order.

[gomezz]

This is why many boxes let you have many Favourites lists so everyone can be happy.

[barbeler]

The YouView box doesn't. It allows you to hide channels, but not to re-order them. This means that unless you hide all but about twenty channels, you have a lot of scrolling to do in order to browse the programme guide.

[grahamlthompson]

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Originally Posted by barbeler

The YouView box doesn't. It allows you to hide channels, but not to re-order them. This means that unless you hide all but about twenty channels, you have a lot of scrolling to do in order to browse the programme guide.

I don't have a Youview box, but all the other Humax boxes will jump in the epg to any channel at the current time by simply tapping the channel number in on the remote .

[gomezz]

But that depends on the viewer being old school and remembering the channel numbers. Fortunately for me, my Youview box is used only for BBC1HD at 101 and for the BT Sport / Eurosport HD channels (grouped at 510 on). Only occasionally used for one of the other internet channels in the 400 range.

But that is generally a once a week exercise when checking and setting recordings. The rest of the week just need to go direct to the Recordings list to select what I want to watch.

[grahamlthompson]

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Originally Posted by gomezz

But that depends on the viewer being old school and remembering the channel numbers. Fortunately for me, my Youview box is used only for BBC1HD at 101 and for the BT Sport / Eurosport HD channels (grouped at 510 on). Only occasionally used for one of the other internet channels in the 400 range.

But that is generally a once a week exercise when checking and setting recordings. The rest of the week just need to go direct to the Recordings list to select what I want to watch.

How hard is it to remember a few key channel numbers ? Even my addled 70 year old brain can manage that

[gomezz]

It is harder when they keep changing them.