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- Subject:Problems with RCN & TIVO ?
One of the reasons I want to get rid of our cable company
and the TIVO that is provided with it, is that I am disgusted
with the TIVO part of the service that used to be great when
we had it 2 years ago.
First I'll start with the TV and movie database.
One word: horrible !!
I don't understand how this TIVO service has changed in
such a negative manner. How do you go from excellent
to dreadful in 2 short years ?? Usually technical products
get better over time don't they ?
I hate the gui interface, it is constantly in the way and not
an improvement. Sometimes tech companies make changes
because the can do them, NOTT because they are a genuine
improvement.
I also question why the database for TV shows has become
so useless. When I watch TV shows like SNL they now give
you a listing of every performer who was ever a regular on that
show any time in their 40 year history without any regard for
the actors on that current episode you are watching.
Two years ago they listed only the actors who were currently
a regular part of the show at the time it was recorded and also
the guest performers who would be on that night.
Then you could click on that guest performer and also see what
else they have been in. More examples: When you look at
the Jimmy Kimmel show or the Steven Colbert show the only
actor listed is the host of the show !! Same thing, every single
night whether you record the show or not, they aren't giving up
any information about any actors on any talk show.
It's pretty much the same thing when you watch a regular scripted
TV show. They list about half of the cast and ZERO guests
on every show.
But it goes wayyyy beyond that, even when you look up the
regular cast they apparently only list the movies that the actor played
in AND are also available through RCN. I am only surmising here because
I have no other explanation why veteran actors would have such an
obviously short list of credits in their history. Before they used to
list everything the actor in question ever did ** AND ** in chronological
order. But that is just a pipedream now.
2 years ago they also gave you a written bio for almost every actor,
even older actors that were on old movies at TCM. They also listed
their place of birth and birth date.
Now there is no bio and half the birthdates are listed as Dec 31, 1969
and there is usually no birth place listed either. They also added
a place for a photo but most of the photos are blank leaving a large
section of your screen blank, so that "improvement" ends up being
annoying too.
I'd love to know why the database is now so screwed-up and what
company is the REAL source of this information. They must have
changed database sources for some reason. Either it became too
costly, somebody decided it wasn't important and/or the original
database was hacked and wiped out.
I'd also like to know if the TIVO database is this screwed-up on
systems not provided by RCN ?
The curious part of all this is that I noticed a similar problem
with Comcast that suddenly occurred 2-3 months before we
terminated them. The Comcast database changed very abruptly
1 day and when I called their support about it, they had no
reasonable explanation and that was a big reason we changed
back to RCN.
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Enough with the database problem, I am also annoyed that when I
want to set a Season Pass to record all NEW episodes of
the local news, or news shows on MS-NBC, Fox News, or CNN
it wants to record every single time that show is run.
In other words if I set up the Season Pass to record the Rachal
Maddow or Sean Hannity show I end up with the correct recording
and then a duplicate recording when the exact same show is
re-broadcast in the early AM. This happens with many stations
so I know it is not the station causing this problem.
I stopped recording the local news because I got tired of sorting
through and deleting all of the duplicate broadcasts.
I NEVER had this problem when I had TIVO and RCN 2 years ago.
When you set up a season pass for NEW episodes that is all you
got back then.
Anyone else noticing any of this or have an explanation ?
There are other problems with TIVO now that I never had before too.
Bill Z
Delaware County, PA - That would only work if I was willing to schedule my time
to watch 1 show every day. But I frequently get sidetracked
on my computer researching stuff and it's easier to just
binge watch 3 or 4 shows at a time. There are a handful
of frequent topics that annoy me and I just fast forward
through them. MS-NBC loves to throw a pity party for
illegals trying to invade our borders and I can't watch that
crap very long.
So me binge watching 4 or 5 shows takes the same amount
of time as it would for a normal person to watch 1 show.
It's actually better for me to go through the "To-Do
list" every 3 or 4 days and spend a half an hour
canceling the shows that I know will be duplicates.
WRZ