When you tune a channel from the EPG (or presumably elsewhere) the spinning cursor is shown and then hidden once the tune completes.

The problem with this is this is because channel tuning is synchronous, the cursor is never really shown until tuning is complete anyway, and also that in some cases the cursor can be shown and never hidden. In this case, you have to exit MP and restart to get rid of it.

Basically, it just needs removal of the GUIWaitCursor calls from (for example)

       GUIWaitCursor.Show();
       TVHome.ViewChannelAndCheck(_currentProgram.ReferencedChannel());
       GUIWaitCursor.Hide();


in TVGuideBase.cs