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How to get rid of "on demand" icons
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Jimbo said that the + indicates which channels let you watch shows from the beginning and peds48 corrected him by saying the arrow indicates which shows can be watched from the beginning and the + indicates video on demand.
Yes - people are acting like this is new. It's been that way for a long time. And peds used a square, not an arrow. That's all we need - more dumb icons in the guide.
I pretty much avoid OnDemand and rewind feature entirely simply because of the commericals and lack of skip options. I'll gladly wait a day or so for reruns to record normally.
If they ever cripple DVR's for normal viewing I'll cancel and torrent everything.
If they ever cripple DVR's for normal viewing I'll cancel and torrent everything.
30 SKIP should be the default. If you have Directv, and I go to your house, when I leave, you will notice that 30SKIP is enabled and the unnecessary 30 slip will be gone.
peds is probably using an i-phone. Iphone users refuse to accept that their little symbols don't work for others. I have Chrome and the satguys app, and it's a square on both!
Unfortunately that is disabled in most of the on demand I've tried. Which was my point. Hopefully that trend doesn't make its way to the linear show recordings.
The inability for FF when using On Demand is a HUGE reason why I rarely ever do OD.
Also the fact that the episodes are not all there for a series.
What good is OD if your not able to watch a series in sequence ...
They don't put all the episodes on there because they want you to buy the season box set on DVD.
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Its D*'s On Demand .... they don't own any of the shows, so buying the whole season would not benefit them at all.
Thats interesting that FF showed the arrow correctly but Chrome did not ...
I just checked mine and yup FF showed correctly.
I just checked mine and yup FF showed correctly.
The networks don't allow DirecTV to put all the episodes on there because the networks want to make money from DVD sales. Also, DirecTV doesn't want to put all the episodes on there anyway because it costs a lot of money to host all those videos.
It's mostly there to catch up on the last few episodes of a show you might have missed.
When I go into the on demand and see a show now that I want to watch I don't watch it, I hit the "record it" selection instead. The show takes a little while to download but you can then skip the commercials. I downloaded 5 shows last night before I went to bed and they were in my list this morning.
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