Yeah, from my recollection, that’s a feature that’s been present since the adoption of Rovi data.
Tivo's OTA guide is filled with duplicate channels that have no signal
I live in the Seattle area and Tivo's OTA guide has valid guide info for channels that I receive. Most of the time the Guide just duplicates information over and over
Example of Guide
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Yeah, I all I need to do is go into Manage-->Settings-->Channel Settings and deselect the duplicate channels.
My point is that Tivo is not a cheap Linux DVR coming out China that can be ordered on Amazon for $50. People pay significant money to get a Tivo (sub or lifetime) and expect a much better experience than this. Its a very bad user experience, far below what is expected from a Tivo product. Even my 1999 Tivo never had such a bad user experience.
To make the daily experience worse, every single day, or maybe every other day, I get a Tivo message stating my lineup has changed. In reality all that is happening is a couple of channels keep changing their ID, such "13" changes to "13-5", then within 24-48 hours, it will flip back ("13-1" --> "13"), then keep flipping day after day. I literally have 100s of messages informing me that my line up has changed when in fact nothing has changed.
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Example of Guide
Yeah, I all I need to do is go into Manage-->Settings-->Channel Settings and deselect the duplicate channels.
My point is that Tivo is not a cheap Linux DVR coming out China that can be ordered on Amazon for $50. People pay significant money to get a Tivo (sub or lifetime) and expect a much better experience than this. Its a very bad user experience, far below what is expected from a Tivo product. Even my 1999 Tivo never had such a bad user experience.
To make the daily experience worse, every single day, or maybe every other day, I get a Tivo message stating my lineup has changed. In reality all that is happening is a couple of channels keep changing their ID, such "13" changes to "13-5", then within 24-48 hours, it will flip back ("13-1" --> "13"), then keep flipping day after day. I literally have 100s of messages informing me that my line up has changed when in fact nothing has changed.
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One thing that's hard when deleting duplicate channels through Channel Settings is that you don't see the signal, so you don't always know which is the right one. It may be easier to delete them while watching live TV, which you can do like this:
* Bring up the blank channel
* Hit Select. It should bring up a mini guide at the bottom with 3 rows of guide data. I have the older interface, but it should look something like this:
* Cursor left to select the channel name
* Hit Select to bring up the channel settings menu. You should see options to delete or add the channel to favorites. Delete the blank channel and repeat for the others.
I'm also annoyed by the blank/duplicate channels with OTA. I don't have too many duplicates, but the Tivo adds channels which are outside my range and I don't have a signal for them.
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