Confused and Irritated New Bolt Customer

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I use the TiVo iPad app to discover what's new and on and browse movies, might not do the recommendation thing but way simpler to browse.

 

You do realize that all of that guide data is licensed and copyrighted. It accounts for a substantial portion of the TiVo monthly service charges. So any manipulation and re-publishing of that data as you propose is likely illegal.

Jeff

 

So you can still use Search for this right? Just change your Options (A) to Name, Record Only and the Categories you want. The one thing that I miss is that with the old Search by Title is that you could enter A (or 0) and start at the beginning of the list and scroll through them all. With the new search you have to go back and select each letter (or number) one at a time to get those matches (A, then B, then C, etc) so it does take a little longer but it's not that bad especially if you just look at the matches that start with the letter.

I would do something similar ever month or so looking for movies to record on our old S3's.

Scott

 

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Any idea what TitanTV is using for its data source?

I've set my uncle up w/ a Roamio OTA, but it's falling down on his number one priority... finding and scheduling Cubs games. The Roamio's guide didn't list last Sunday's game nor tomorrow's (w/ tomorrow's also missing from TVGuide.com), but tomorrow's game *is* shown within the TitanTV listing.

 

While there is no copyrights found, it does match Screener. I'll say Nielsen.

 

Facepalm. When I checked Screener, earlier, I had neglected to specify my zip code to display our local programming.

'gist: Yep, Screener matches TitanTV, with both showing tomorrow's Cubs game. And TVGuide & TiVos not. Deeply disappointing, TiVo.

Thanks, @JoeKustra.

 

No problem. I often check tvguide.com and tv.com (crappy web sites) to see if they have updates. If my TiVo has a guide problem, and I can see it on the losers, I know it's usually a waste of time to force a connection. Screener is my go to site, but it's still 99%. Nothing is perfect.

 

The more I've thought about things, the more I agree with the OP's points. How nice it is when I find a nice movie I hadn't thought about, in my Suggestions. How much nicer if there would be an easy-to-use, comprehensive browse area. One would just assume it would be there.