Next Gen: on entering a series rollup tile the focus should be on the next unwatched episode
In the next gen software when one enters a series rollup tile the focus is on the newest episode. Unless one keeps almost up to date with a series and yet does not delete watched episodes this is unlikely to be desirable behaviour.
For those that let recordings build up in a series rollup and then binge watch and delete as they go one would want the focus to be on the oldest episode. For those that binge watch but then do not delete the watched items one would want the focus to be on the next unwatched item (which in the former deleting case is the oldest item).
In conclusion having the focus on the oldest unwatched episode would most often be the right behaviour and save people needing to scroll back along what could be a very long line of episodes. As such one should either just implement that or if flexibility is wanted then implement an option for the user to choose between oldest unwatched, oldest, newest as the initial focused tile.
For those that let recordings build up in a series rollup and then binge watch and delete as they go one would want the focus to be on the oldest episode. For those that binge watch but then do not delete the watched items one would want the focus to be on the next unwatched item (which in the former deleting case is the oldest item).
In conclusion having the focus on the oldest unwatched episode would most often be the right behaviour and save people needing to scroll back along what could be a very long line of episodes. As such one should either just implement that or if flexibility is wanted then implement an option for the user to choose between oldest unwatched, oldest, newest as the initial focused tile.
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In comparison, youview is primitive.
YouView should invest the little extra effort to compute the oldest (partially) unwatched tile and land there!
It would arguably be straight forward to code a setting so the user can choose between oldest, newest, oldest unwatched (with the 1st or 3rd being the likely default)
There are a few other things in NextGen that would benefit from being regarded as a circular carousel besides this, notably putting the EPG back as it was in CurrentGen, where I would go to 900 if I went down from 1, and not into a bunch of filters I will never use, and can get to by a different route anyway if I did want to use them.
So wrapping around doesn't seem to be something verboten in HTML5.
(e.g. I have heard rumours that the mini-TV has gone because HTML5 makes programming such a mixture of text and small version of what is normally full screen nigh-on impossible to do in HTML5, but I have no direct knowledge if this is true or not).
I actually prefer that the EPG has an end-top at the top of the list (i.e. channel 1). When I'm browsing through the EPG looking to see if there's anything interesting to watch, I use the "page up", and I prefer it to hit the top, and stop (as it is now). Don't think I've ever found anything worth watching at the other end of the guide. If I want radio, I switch category to "radio".
We have the choice of two ITV regions where we live, and the one we elect becomes 3, while the other becomes 800-something, and usually the highest-numbered channel of all.
So when we wanted the regional news for the 'other' region, we simply scrolled 'up' from 1, got the wraparound, and there we were.
NextGen has broken this, as far as the main EPG is concerned :-(
It only took YouView about 5 months after next gen launch to make the first tweak to the landing point, and now another 11 months for this optimal tweak - they got there in the end though
It is so good to find a sensible objective view on this forum.
Thank you.