Enchantermon on 7/7/2009 at 03:42
Imagine my surprise last night when I flipped to the TV Guide Network to see what channel AMC is on and the TV listings were
nowhere to be found.
(
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=103339) TV Guide Network drops scrolling listings.
Seriously? The listings were the only thing the TV Guide channel was good for. Now it's just extra entertainment fluff. I guess some people will want to watch it, but I just want to know what's on television. Removing the listings is like McDonald's not making hamburgers any more. This is even dumber than SyFy.
Kolya on 7/7/2009 at 06:57
Marketing speak for: "We will be shallow and family friendly at our core with protuberances of sex and violence on the edges."
Muzman on 7/7/2009 at 07:53
Great. I don't have scrolling listings either.
At least now I know why people keep calling me 'girly-man, fag britches'.
The sand. Always the sand in the eyes. Oh the pain.
*looks for advert in the back of a comic book "Build scolling listings in 30 days"*
gunsmoke on 7/7/2009 at 10:32
The scrolling listings are obsolete. Don't you people have info and menu buttons?
Enchantermon on 7/7/2009 at 16:12
Doesn't that service only come with satellite? We just have extended cable, and I know we're not the only ones.
ZylonBane on 7/7/2009 at 17:36
In my area, Time-Warner's digital cable comes with a channel guide as part of the service. So something like the TV Guide channel would be superfluous in any case.
fett on 8/7/2009 at 00:35
Since when do you guys care about the name of the porn flick/sports event/celeb gossip show you're watching? Doesn't it all blur together after awhile anyway?
Enchantermon on 8/7/2009 at 02:59
Quote Posted by ZylonBane
In my area, Time-Warner's digital cable comes with a channel guide as part of the service. So something like the TV Guide channel would be superfluous in any case.
Interesting. But again, while that is true for you, it is not true for everyone (we have Time Warner here as well, but no channel guide). I understand that this decision won't affect people like yourself who have guides built into their service, but for those who don't, it's a nice convenience.
Quote Posted by fett
Since when do you guys care about the name of the porn flick/sports event/celeb gossip show you're watching? Doesn't it all blur together after awhile anyway?
Because some people (e.g. myself) don't watch that stuff. I watch very little television, so I tend to forget which channels are which, especially if they're ones that I don't watch a lot, like AMC, FX, etc. And since the local paper decided to save money by cutting the entire weekly TV guide, then the TV Guide Network was the most convenient source.
Plus, if I ever do turn on the TV, I don't watch just anything. Most everything that's on is uninteresting to me (which is one of the reasons I don't watch television often), so I'd like to see what exactly is on instead of wasting time channel surfing, especially since half of the channels are going to be on commercials anyway.
gunsmoke on 8/7/2009 at 03:06
You don't have a set-top box, do you Enchantermon? If you do, then your cable sucks. Every single cable provider I have bumped into with a set top box has some sort of extended features, the LEAST of which being an in house channel guide. Wow, I am surprised. I have Insight, btw.
Enchantermon on 8/7/2009 at 03:08
Nope. Our cable runs straight from the wall to the TV, no box.
Interestingly, the guide is back. Who knows for how long, though.
