[mythtv-users] Watch list problem

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Oct 8, 2008, at 9:06 AM, Johnny Russ wrote:

> Perhaps.  It achieves a goal of "spreading the load" by giving you  
> what to watch so you catch up on everything.  If you want to catch  
> up on one show, use the title view list for that.  The 24 period  
> also achieves a goal of mirroring many viewing habits of sitting  
> down once per day to watch TV, thus the next day, you get a  
> refreshed list of all your shows that need some catching up on.    
> You can't make everyone happy with a feature like this so that was  
> the goal attributed to this feature.  The only thing I'd really like  
> to see is an indicator in the Watch List of how many back episodes  
> there are for any title so that I can see quickly "Oh, I have 3  
> episodes of Fringe to watch" and then I can switch to the title view  
> to watch them in order.
>
>
> I agree that you are not going to be able to please everybody with a  
> feature like this. But I do think you can frequently think about it  
> a little bit and make a choose that is reasonable and benefits most  
> users. As I said before the 1 day wait period makes the watch list  
> very annoying, and even unusable for many users. However, not having  
> the 1 day wait period would only mean that some people would have 1  
> or 2 extra episodes in their watch list that they may not want to  
> watch that night. Seems like a poor trade off for most users.

If I want to watch an episode and know I want to watch another after,  
I go to that show's folder and pick the ones I want to see. Since I  
sort my original air date, it's easy to figure out which one is "next"  
for me.

If I don't know what to watch because there's too many new things or  
not enough new things of immediate interest, I go to the Watch List so  
I can see what I haven't seen and that might be auto-expired soon.

I believe this is the way it was meant to be used. Using one for the  
other doesn't work. Also, you can't use a fork to screw in a  
lightbulb. That doesn't make the fork a "problem".

-Brad

P.S. If you have 2 really old episodes of the same show sitting around  
that you haven't watched and you watch one, the next one does  
immediately come up - if, according to the algorithm, it should be  
watched next. I sometimes forget to mark The Daily Show as Watched and  
I often see one at the top of my list. I mark it watched and another  
one comes up.