Add an uncategorized "Show All" option to the "On Later" screen?

Channels DVR Server Feature Requests
#1

For your consideration:
Could the "On Later" screen have a way of bypassing all the fine tuning and just present all unique shows Channels knows about without breaking them into genres? Maybe sorted alphabetically?

The division between "TV Shows", "Movies", "Sports", "Kids" is still nice.

But within those categories, I find it isn't easy to pin shows I'm interested in to a specific genre. Say I like crime shows. Sometimes those fall under "Crime", sometimes "Crime drama", sometimes "Action" or "Mystery" or "Thriller" or "Drama" or "Law" ... you get the picture. And they all have slightly different lists of shows in them.

I don't want to miss something I'm interested in because I had filtered the genre/channel. So I went through and selected every channel and every genre available. Now, while I get everything, there are some shows listed many times in the "On Later" section making it cumbersome to browse.

In my case, it would be more efficient to have a screen that essentially just does a "SELECT DISTINCT show FROM guide WHERE date > GETDATE() AND type = 'TV Show' ORDER BY title ASC" (or Movie, etc.) and presents the result.

#2

Fine tuning does not filter anything. It just sorts things you’re more interested in up front. That’s the whole point. It always shows everything, but it takes your interests and shows them first.

Fine tuning does not hide anything.

#3

Thanks @maddox, I did misunderstand that about fine-tuning.

It does still leave me with a request, which would be to allow the shows to be browsed as the unique set of what's in the guide, without any categorization. With a number of shows appearing in 3-4 different categories, and having to expand most categories to see everything in them, it makes going through the "On Later" section slow compared to a straight list where each show appears once and there are no categories to expand.

Is there anything that can be done along those lines?

Example - just in the first two categories, there are 6 shows duplicated. Going through the entire "On Later" page, each of those shows appears 3-4 times.

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#4

:+1:

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