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Old 8th February 2008, 12:35 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Re: Free EPG Reliability

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Originally Posted by beastytech View Post
Hi guys,

I would like to express how my Wife Approval went down recently because we are relying on the Guide to record our series, or we were I should say. We are now only using the Guide as a reference then setting up Manual recording for the given timeslot as the Guide information is not reliable enough.

An example was Sunday night, the aussie dancing show was called "So you think you can dance Australia", then on Monday night it was called "So you think you can dance", without the Australia, therefore my wife missed out on her show. As we didn't get time to setup the recording for the NEW title, we also missed out on Monday nights recording.

We love the idea of the Guide and how easy it is to record things, but from now no we unfortunately will only use it for reference and not for it's FULL purpose

If anyone can suggest a way to make it better for us please let me know.

Cheers

P.S. until we get our Microsoft Support with people PAID to make efficient guides then I guess we can't do much.
I'm guessing since FreeEPG relies on the data entered in OzTivo that may crop up on occasion. Obviously someone entered it with the Australia and someone else without.

Unfortunately, apart from checking to see if the shows are called the same there is not much you can do as it does rely on people.

The commercial IceTV would probably be able to handle this better, as they would have strict rules on their data entry procedures when providing the guide, but they're not perfect either.
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