Topfield v2.0 manual If possible, please install and run Crid alongside iGuide

v2.0 user guide Page 3

Note that there is a TAP called CRID available from bdb’s stable, which finds and adds series link data to programme descriptions when broadcast by a channel. If this TAP is running alongside iGuide, then iGuide uses this extra data to make its series link pattern matching more accurate and quicker.

If possible, please install and run CRID alongside iGuide.

2.Channel groups

A channel group is a collection of channels that acts as a pseudo-channel for series link patterns, so that a pattern can match programmes from more than one channel.

Five default channels are provided with iGuide: all BBC channels, all ITV channels, Channel 4 group (excludes Film4), Channel 5 group and all channels. Others can be added as the user sees fit.

3.‘IntuiLeap’ homing-in navigation

When playing back a recording, you will often want to quickly move beyond, say, a commercial break. iGuide’s IntuiLeap navigation makes this a very quick process, by homing in on the desired restart point. Initial key-clicks move five minutes in one direction or the other; subsequent key-clicks move back and forth in increasingly small amounts, until the correct point is located.

Two IntuiLeap modes are available: ‘increasing small’ diminishes the amount jumped on each key press – this is the most efficient method, but not necessarily the most intuitive; ‘diminishes on direction change’ mode only changes the jump amount when the direction of travel changes – slightly less efficient, but easier to understand what’s going on.

4.‘May I Suggest...’ predictive programming

The May I Suggest... feature attempts to identify programmes you may like but not already know about, based on recordings you’ve already made and indicated you enjoyed. Again, fuzzy logic is used to compare upcoming programmes with existing recordings.

If no recordings have already been identified, May I Suggest... falls back to a Tivo- emulation mode, in which every episode of the Simpsons is recorded.

5.Thumbnailing

Thumbnails can be manually or automatically generated for recordings, including thumbnails of the ‘last viewed’ position in a recording.

6.Multi-recording playout

Completed recordings can be marked as part of a playout collection. Initiating play on a marked recording results in the entire collection being played out one after the other, in a user-defined sequence. This allows multiple recordings to be played in a set order in one go, for e.g. archiving to DVD or tape.