2011-05-12, 18:54
Sranshaft Wrote:Now that you've added in the 'Real-time' mode, it'd be really great to to have a reminder system in place.
This may be helpful indeed. My first new priority, though, will be a scheduling system. As I've mentioned before, my wife used to watch Friends at 5:30 every day back when we had cable. I will try and replicate this sort of experience. Ideally, I want a person to be able to schedule a few episodes from one playlist into another on a given weekday and time. That way you can have the random episodes and movies along with structured times, hopefully giving a very authentic tv sort of feel.
Sranshaft Wrote:As for time-shift, I'm sure it might be difficult but it'd be something that would really add to the 'watching regular tv' experience. Like Tivo, perhaps a system where if the user pauses or rewinds, PseudoTV will keep track of this time offset and 1. only allow the user to fast forward until it's caught back up with real-time and continue watching or 2. skip forward directly to real time and continue watching.
I'm not a fan of removing the users ability to fast forward after they are watching the "current" show. I don't want to remove the advantages that have a media library affords a person.
I like the idea of having a sort of "Live TV" button which will jump directly to whatever is supposed to be happening in real time. This would go well with the whole real-time mode plus the future tv show scheduling feature.