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it in no way interferes with my use of the device


It affects mine, in a piddling manner. I used ``TiVo, PageDown, Up, Select'' all the time to get to the record menu. Now I have to throw an extra `Up' at it. Just annoying. And even if you watch all of the content in that menu, it stays there, with the annoying star.
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Bitt Faulk