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Exactly. It does placate users with some indication of activity. This can impact how someone feels about the change, but does nothing to solve the time to change problem. One thing it does do is confirm the change is in progress. That is a subset of the time to change problem. Many current UX on this do not give a very good, or any indicator of successful input. Quite a few people may see their feelings about the tim…
You can show the program name and what's on on that black screen, this info is already available from EPG.
That's actually a nice spiff. Doesn't entirely fix the problem, but could help with surfers looking for something interesting.