Harry Potter and ...

[Mike_H]

So I'm in the house sick, and flipping around. I find channel 305 has Harry Potter and ... shown in the guide. so I switch to it and watch it for a while. My son asks which one it is. I realize i don't know. The guide didn't show the rest of the title nor did the info area.

I've seen this on some shows for a while now so I called into Dish to report it. The Tech sounded like he never heard of this before. I though I'd just be adding to the pile of folks complaining about bad guide info.

Some other examples where this is happening tonight:
Channel 163 - Led Zeppelin'... (Led Zepplin what?)
Channel 356 - Santa Clause 3:... (Santa Clause 3 what?)

Now normally this will happen if the title doesn't fit in the guide, but info will show the whole thing. They seem to have no trouble with Lord of Rings: Return of King on channel 138... though it seems to be missing the The's in the title. I should have mentioned that to the tech too.

anyone else see this, the tech kept talking about "your local area" issues.

 

[cloudy]

I noticed this for well over a month ago. It does get quite annoying. It's not just with Harry Potter and lord of the rings. I see dozens of "title..." listings every day.

 

[KKlare]

About a month ago, Dish or Tribune shortened the titles possibly to easily fit the grid listing--unneeded. You must look at the year to know which HP it is.
There are plenty of longer and more descriptive titles for other programs.
Try the Indiana Jones set for different dropping of "the" making folders and even adjacency less useful. You cannot change the names to match better because all changed names are lower case except for the initial letter.
(Biggest recent "the" change is IMDb now filing title with it first. Library sort to pure alphabetic. This makes my spreadsheet easier but sure piles a lot of films in "T".)
-Ken