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Old 10-20-2010, 05:54 AM   #1
eelton
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Zap2it scheduling broken?

Since their recent webpage redesign, Zap2it TiVo scheduling hasn't been working right. The "Record to TiVo" button only appears if there's an episode title. That's fine for a series, but it doesn't work for movies.

I e-mailed Zap2it, but haven't heard back. The Yahoo guide is an alternative, but I don't like it as much--Zap2it can display 6 hours at a time vs. 3 for Yahoo, and it shows star ratings for movies.
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Old 10-20-2010, 06:40 AM   #2
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It's been like that for a long time. I just go to tivo.com if I want to schedule a movie recording from the web.
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Old 10-22-2010, 04:02 PM   #3
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At Zap2it we are aware of the problem sending Movies on TV to your TiVo and we apologize for the inconvenience. This problem was introduced with the deployment of new Movies on TV pages. The problem will be fixed with our next deployment scheduled for November 10.

Thank you for your patience.

Gunter Kalogridis
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Old 10-22-2010, 04:19 PM   #4
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Gunter View Post
At Zap2it we are aware of the problem sending Movies on TV to your TiVo and we apologize for the inconvenience. This problem was introduced with the deployment of new Movies on TV pages. The problem will be fixed with our next deployment scheduled for November 10.

Thank you for your patience.

Gunter Kalogridis
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Old 10-23-2010, 09:33 AM   #5
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Yes, thanks so much, Gunter!
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Old 10-23-2010, 09:31 PM   #6
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Gunter, could you also look into some other problems?
- C-SPAN2 Book TV listings are wrong more often than not, both in the Tribune-based TiVo Guide and in Zap2it.com, and it's been like this for years. I don't understand why that has to be so, because C-SPAN's own webpage listings are always right. (I gave up on TiVo Guide/Zap2it and have to make manual recordings from the C-SPAN listings. Very annoying!)
- Local TV stations often don't have weekend movies listed, but TV Guide's website does.
- I've been led to understand that "frames" are obsolete in website construction, but if any site needs them, it's a TV listings webpage. The "time" row headers should stay put and not scroll out of sight; they should always be visible, like a spreadsheet's "freeze rows."
- The recent changes in Zap2it's behavior has become more user-hostile: When one clicks on a listings show name and the expanded info pops down, the cast often is no longer listed, and when the episode name or "More Episodes, News, Recaps, Cast Info, Reviews..." is clicked, the cast isn't there anymore, either. There's a Cast link to click on the left, but it's not the episode's cast, but rather merely the general series cast. You've removed functionality! Aaaarrrggghhh! (This kind of retrogression always happens when people try to fix something that's not broke!)
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