found a alternative site to view the tv listings with full summary.

[brejust]

http://www.tvtv.us/
click go to your state and then your town or city etc and it gives you full summary of the tv show or movie your watching.

there is broadcast
dish
directv
and other cable channel .
i picked dish national and the other in my town.

 

[brejust]

one other site you can click on link and see lots of channels and whats on.
dont think its specific to your area.
hey better then nothing and free
goes by the time currently.
but you can put your zip code in too. hmm gives summary to of whats happening on episode etc. this site real good. very fast to me.
....................................................

http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/tvlistings/ZCGrid.do?aid=zap2it/

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Cool site! A little slow in loading but very useful!

 

[brejust]

second site is faster.
http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/tvlistings/ZCGrid.do?aid=zap2it/

 

[chuckf1]

second site is faster.
http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/tvlistings/ZCGrid.do?aid=zap2it/

Font is smaller though. Although both are very informative sites.

 

[dishrich]

second site is faster.
http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/tvlistings/ZCGrid.do?aid=zap2it/

This IS where (both) DISH & Tivo's got their (Gracenote) EPG data, BEFORE they switched to the Rovi garbage!

 

[twilliam66]

http://www.tvtv.us/
click go to your state and then your town or city etc and it gives you full summary of the tv show or movie your watching.

there is broadcast
dish
directv
and other cable channel .
i picked dish national and the other in my town.

I have a better idea. How about Dish gets rid of the dollar store guide data and brings back Gracenote data?

 

[JSheridan]

I have a better idea. How about Dish gets rid of the dollar store guide data and brings back Gracenote data?

I heard that Gracenote more than doubled the price for their data. That might be why.

 

[twilliam66]

I heard that Gracenote more than doubled the price for their data. That might be why.

So to save money I guess Dish thought we didn't need a guide that wasn't useless.

 

[DWS44]

So to save money I guess Dish thought we didn't need a guide that wasn't useless.

...or maybe Dish figured their customers would freak out at a commensurate increase in their monthly bill to compensate for an increase in guide data costs.

If that was true, then Gracenote deserves a bit of the blame here, too.

 

[twilliam66]

...or maybe Dish figured their customers would freak out at a commensurate increase in their monthly bill to compensate for an increase in guide data costs.

Yeah it's much better to piss your customers off with constant missed recordings and descriptions that tell you nothing about the show or movie than to raise their bill.

 

[DWS44]

Yeah it's much better to piss your customers off with constant missed recordings and descriptions that tell you nothing about the show or movie than to raise their bill.

oh, I agree that missed recordings suck, but you've seen what happens on this site every time there is a price increase for anything, or some new fee introduced. Imagine what would happen if everyone got their bills in April and found a new $4.99 "Gracenote Guide Data Access Fee" added.

 

[JSheridan]

So to save money I guess Dish thought we didn't need a guide that wasn't useless.

I don't think it's a matter of DISH 'saving money'. It's more like they didn't want to have to increase rates. And the guide is far from useless. I've only had to redo 2 out of 80+ timers.

 

[lgb0250]

That's great for you but some of us are still having problems even when we've re done our timers. The problem I've had with the PGA Tour recordings started with grace note and has just been exacerbated by rovi. Getting real old now and frustrating.

 

[charlesrshell]

http://www.tvtv.us/
click go to your state and then your town or city etc and it gives you full summary of the tv show or movie your watching.

there is broadcast
dish
directv
and other cable channel .
i picked dish national and the other in my town.

one other site you can click on link and see lots of channels and whats on.
dont think its specific to your area.
hey better then nothing and free
goes by the time currently.
but you can put your zip code in too. hmm gives summary to of whats happening on episode etc. this site real good. very fast to me.
....................................................

http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/tvlistings/ZCGrid.do?aid=zap2it/

I still prefer to use Titantv. It is a little more complicated to set up but I like the way you can set the time frame in your favorites.

http://beta.titantv.com/

 

[TheLip]

I've only had to redo 2 out of 80+ timers.

I wish that was my experience.

I have been missing programs left and right, on a weekly basis, and it hasn't been getting better for me. I redo the timer and the redo works for one week and then not the next. Rinse and repeat.

 

[JSheridan]

I wish that was my experience.

I have been missing programs left and right, on a weekly basis, and it hasn't been getting better for me. I redo the timer and the redo works for one week and then not the next. Rinse and repeat.

That's pretty bad. Are you reporting these problems?