Or even select all? not that I want that, but unchecking a few might be nicer for some
I consider this āfeatureā is an absolute must have. I consider it basic functionality that is sadly missing.
I am starting to regret my lifetime subscription to Tablo because it appears you have stopped development, improvements and maintenance.
PLEASE IMPLEMENT the ability to sort the channels in the order I desire.
Is there any DVR that allows this? I have owned a lot of cable and satellite DVRs in the past, and none had that feature. You could set a favorites list, but that still kept the channels in order, just like the Tablo.
Lol must be a millennial who grew up with internet their whole life, please tell me which other DVR has this ābasicā feature? I know Iām poking fun but I am legit interested cause I have personally never seen it on a cable box DVR. Does Plex DVR let you do it?
I usually try to understand how someone purchased a product that didnāt have an absolute must have feature. Itās not like there is any product information or forum posts saying tablo has this feature.
The closest Iāve seen, when I had DVB-T tuner cards in my PC. I can to scan frequencies to create channels list. I could edit and rearrange it, call the channels what I wanted - the text fields names.
But all this was completely manual configuration. This is how you get exactly what you want - absolute must have, exactly the way you want it ā including all the maintenance.
āLol must be a millennial who grew up with internet their whole life, please tell me which other DVR has this ābasicā feature? I know Iām poking fun but I am legit interested cause I have personally never seen it on a cable box DVR. Does Plex DVR let you do it?
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It is not a āDVRā function per set, but neither is offering a channel guide at all a āDVRā function.
Almost every cable TV, or satellite service letās me reorder channels. For instance I could create custom channel orders with Dish, DirecTv, and with Comcast.
It is not an unreasonable request, and would be fairly easy to implement given a competent programmer and a weeks (+/-) time to do it. The reason it is not offered is most likely money: to store the order in which you want your channels displayed will take memory, either on the Tablo device or on a Tablo server, so that would decrease Tablo profits (putting short term losses ahead of long term gains from a happier customer base). Not sure thatās a true excuse not to have it anyway because it can always be stored on the external hard drive (although being in Tablos RAM, would be much better).
BTWā¦I an so much older than a millennial but I generally donāt apply labels to people.
I usually try to understand how someone purchased a product that didnāt have an absolute must have feature. Itās not like there is any product information or forum posts saying tablo has this feature.
Itās simple, the cost of the Tablo OTA tunner/DVR compared to subscribing to services that do offer custom channel order, makes the poorer channel guide more acceptable. IOW the lower cost is preferred even with Tabloās flaws.
That dosnāt mean I donāt expect Tablo to continually upgrade their software.
BTW TABLO, how many more months and years will the 14 day channel guide still be in Betta!
Tablo does continually upgrade the firmware and/or apps. That doesnāt mean that stating āabsolute must haveā makes your wishes rise above not only product strategy or any other users āmust havesā.
Of course they could remove the label āBettaā and would that mean the 14 day guide would be any different then it currently is?
Given that each app and thus user might want a different channel order, Iām sure that being the competent programer that you are you could volunteer to whip out the changes in all the apps in a week.
No, they donāt. You can create a favorites list with just the channels you want, but they are still in numerical order.
This.
Philo allows moving favorite channels before the rest
The Slingtv UI allows a user to mark favorites. But those favorites donāt seem to be able to be re-ordered. Which is what was being asked for.
Atleast tablo lets the user select the channels that appear in the grid - which is a form of favorites.
Disputing my statements gets the discussion no where. I know what a favorite list is and I know what a channel reorder is. On the best systems I could do both. I pruned out unwatched or low res channels, then reordered the stations in the order I wanted them to be in. The stations were not in numerical or alphabetic order, but in the exact order I desired. The more often I watched a channel, the higher I could move it up the programin guide. Just because YOU have not seen this feature does not prove I have not. Nor should Tablo seek to program to the lowest standard of customation but should be aiming the best user experience possible.
My LG tv (2020) allows me to reorder the channels. There is a function to move channels around (from top to bottom) and\or delete them. One selects a channel by clicking on it in a list and then using the remoteās up\down arrows to move it up or down. This is in a WebOS screen. So itās being doneā¦
Is your LG TV a DVR?
It would be a DVR if I was in South Korea or Japan. LG allows one in Asia to stick in a USB drive and record\pause\forward. However LG has not enabled that function in North America for some reason. Their WebOS was originally intended for DVRs by HP (from which they bought that media OS). TCL TV on the other hand does allow this in the US & Canada.
Tvheadend, which is a piece of DVR software one downloads to a device does channel reordering. One can turn any PC into a DVR using Tvheadend. I use it on an ARM device (S912 Corelec) with a USB tuner. One can resequence any channels and also rename them.
Emby can also edit & reorder channels. Not sure about Plex (though the Manage Channels function in the documentation mentions resequencing TV channels)ā¦
Thatās pretty cool. Can you specify exactly what cable or satellite provider and the model of the DVR that supported that?
I didnāt know Emby had a DVR, Emby is based off Plex no? Is the DVR feature new? If I was going the route of setting up a separate PC to be a DVR, I always through Plex was the best thing out there. But Iāve never actually used it for itās DVR function.