Please make an option to turn off screensaver
It serves no function, and even if it did, there is no reason to not let people turn it off if they want to. The TV channel is the screensaver, and there are all kinds of reasons that people might w...
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The screensaver is probably more for Cox's benefit than for its customers. If a Switched Digital Video channel is playing when the specified period of inactivity is reached, the channel's frequency will become available for use by another channel, if no other customer on the node is viewing or recording the channel. Only the most popular channels have a network-wide stream. SDV frees up bandwidth by only broadcasting channels that are actively being watched or recorded. The screensaver replaces a blank screen. If it's thought of as a feature, albeit unwanted, it successfully distracts from why it's needed.
