Return to Most Recent Live Channel After Playing a Recording

Channels Apple TV Feature Requests
#1

Channels should behave more like a normal DVR. By that, I mean if I have a live streaming source playing in a window while I am going through the menu to find something recorded to play, when the recording finishes, Channels should return to that window or back to the menu with that source still streaming in a window.

I think this would give it a more “solid” feel. As it is now, when recording finishes, it goes back to the last menu screen with silence. This might be OK for an app on your computer. But it is not good for an Apple TV where it is supposed to act like a DVR because it replaced your Dish Network or whatever DVR.

Edit - unless you were watching a TV show recording and you have that “auto play next episode” setting turned on. Then, obviously, it should go to next episode until you run out of episodes.

#2

This would cause a tuner to be in use after watching a recording and Channels DVR does not prioritize recordings over LiveTV so recordings could be missed because a tuner is in use ... just my opinion.

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#3

Good point. In that scenario, for an HD Homerun stream, it should show whatever the tuner switched to for recording.

#4

Just cause this a feature request, we’ll put this to bed. We won’t be doing anything like this for multiple reasons.

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#5