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TV Guide Network - Shrinks Size of Listings (Again)

The listings for the TV Guide Channel (or Network) available to customers of Comcast Cablevision of Mobile (Alabama) often froze in the past and occasionally disappeared, resulting in regular programming taking the entire screen.
 
MarcB said:
The TV Guide Network for COX Meriden has been frozen since 3:25PM...
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Hey, with the high temperatures across the Northeast this week, it's actually good to have something frozen... ::)
 
MarcB said:
Once again the TV Guide Network has shrunk the size of the listings on the scroll. I thought it was good that they still showed the listings for people (particularly the elderly) who don't have a digital box or who can't figure out how to get the on-screen guide to work, but now the type is so small you have to either have to have really good eye sight to read it or you have to be really close to the the screen to read it.
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I'm going to guess that most people who do not have the Internet take some form of local newspaper. Whether their listings are readable or complete I have no idea.

I would suggest those who can use TitanTV.com. It is free, customizable, mostly accurate and almost always available. You can list or remove stations you don't watch and it can display in text or grid format for easier viewing.
 
Re: TV Guide Network - Are The Listings Gone for good?

MarcB said:
... right now they're showing IDOL Rewound and there's a black rectangle at the bottom of the screen where the listings should be. Hmmm.
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I'm guessing it was a cable carrier linkup issue?
 
Re: TV Guide Network - Are The Listings Gone for good?

DToTheJ said:
I'm guessing it was a cable carrier linkup issue?
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Joe you're probably right - it's a COMCAST Thing. I just turned on Channel 72/100 and once again Commercials are airing Full Screen and there's a black rectangle at the bottom of the screen during programming where the listings should be. I just called my mom who has COX Cable and asked her to flip on Channel 19 and she says the listings are there in full below the Paris Hilton British BF Show followed by a show containing the word "UGLY".
 
landtuna said:
I'm going to guess that most people who do not have the Internet take some form of local newspaper. Whether their listings are readable or complete I have no idea.
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Of course, there are some who do have the internet, yet still consult the paper for what's on tonight. I'm one of them.

landtuna said:
I would suggest those who can use TitanTV.com. It is free, customizable, mostly accurate and almost always available. You can list or remove stations you don't watch and it can display in text or grid format for easier viewing.
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I prefer Zap2It -- they have more detailled listings, and, if you have an account there, you can also customise the listings anyway you want.

I don't recommend tvguide.com -- they don't include all the listings, and in some cases, may mistake one channel with another.

Of course, for many people these days, if they want to know what's on right now or within the next few hours, they simply consult the EPG on their TV sets or receivers.
 
azumanga said:
I prefer Zap2It -- they have more detailled listings...
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I used to use Zap2It but they had too much downtime. Maybe they've gotten better lately.

azumanga said:
Of course, for many people these days, if they want to know what's on right now or within the next few hours, they simply consult the EPG on their TV sets or receivers.
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I'm an OTA viewer and have been disappointed in the EPG. The only way to use it is to tune to the channel then hit the EPG key. But it usually takes time, once the channel is tuned, for the EPG to load - especially the first time. Sometimes it's a short wait and other times it never loads.

Then....and this is the worst criticism....most of the time there is only a very generic description of the show or just the title with "No Information" listed. Useless.
 
As of Decmember 14th, 2010 TV Guide Network on COX Cable in Meriden, Connecticut has permanently eliminated the listings. On December 14th COX made the following channels digital only:

14 Town Government Programming
15 COX PATV 15 (Public Access)
16 Town School District Programming
19 TV Guide Network

Customers who have a Digital Box noticed no changes. Customers without a box noticed these 4 channels replaced with snow.
 
Great. Just what Connecticut needs, more channels full of snow... as if there isn't enough outside! :mad:
 
MarcB said:
As of Decmember 14th, 2010 TV Guide Network on COX Cable in Meriden, Connecticut has permanently eliminated the listings. On December 14th COX made the following channels digital only:

14 Town Government Programming
15 COX PATV 15 (Public Access)
16 Town School District Programming
19 TV Guide Network

Customers who have a Digital Box noticed no changes. Customers without a box noticed these 4 channels replaced with snow.
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Wait so Cox moved the local town and school information channels to digital only. Do they take up that much space on regular cable? Also I would think people with LCD's tvs can still view these channels, not sure.
 
Ken said:
Wait so Cox moved the local town and school information channels to digital only. Do they take up that much space on regular cable? Also I would think people with LCD's tvs can still view these channels, not sure.
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People who have an HDTV hooked directly up to the cable without a box can still get these channels but they're very high up on weird channel numbers like 123.07 (not sure of the exact channel number, so I just pulled that one out of thin-air).
 
Here in the Tampa Bay area on Bright House, TV Guide Channel is available only on television sets that connect directly to the cable without a box on channel 99; the rationale being that the boxes have an EPG. The only downside is that TVGC has changed its programming, and that a "clean" version without the schedule scroll is not available on the system.
 
MarcB said:
Ken said:
Wait so Cox moved the local town and school information channels to digital only. Do they take up that much space on regular cable? Also I would think people with LCD's tvs can still view these channels, not sure.
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People who have an HDTV hooked directly up to the cable without a box can still get these channels but they're very high up on weird channel numbers like 123.07 (not sure of the exact channel number, so I just pulled that one out of thin-air).
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Cox should put the local information channels on 14.1 15.1 and 16.1 that way their off analog but on digital. As I know one cable company that with a HDTV hooked directly up to cable without a box the digital channel is placed on the same channel as the analog channel is. For example the FOX digital channel is 43.1 but on cable FOX is placed on 7 so FOX 43 HD is placed right on 7.1 instead of 43.1. I know on COX if you have a HDTV hooked up to cable FOX 61 HD is on 61.1 and analog FOX 61 is on 6. They don't placed it on 6.1
 
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