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Say Good-Bye to the Ugly Cable Set-Top Box {Switched.com}
Jul 6th 2007 5:02PM Additional note: I saw that the screenshot you have includes a feature to change time slot - that will be an improvement, but will still not make the Moxi guide as efficient as the grid, in my opinion. I hope the new version includes an option for recording a series with new episodes AND repeats, but only in the same time slot / same channel. Our old DVR service from Comcast (in another state) had this option, but the current Moxi through Charter does not. If you want to record missed episodes of the Simpsons in its regular time slot, you're also stuck recording EVERY Simpsons rerun on Fox...which fills up your DVR pretty quickly.
Say Good-Bye to the Ugly Cable Set-Top Box {Switched.com}
Jul 6th 2007 4:54PM As one who has lived with the Moxi onscreen program guide for over a year, I must disagree with your description of it as "easy-to-scan onscreen program guide." Unlike the "tvguide" style grid, the Moxi grid does not allow the user to view the listings on multiple channels simultaneously, except for the current time slot. Thus, if it is 7:57, you have to scroll to each channel individually to see what will be on that channel at 8:00. Very inefficient and frustrating, especially if you have several hundred channels. The Moxi usergroup rumor on this is that Moxi doesn't want to pay the fees necessary to use the grid style, which has to be licensed (allegedly from fox as the owner of TVguide). Not sure if this is true, but when I purchased a flatscreen HDTV, I also picked up a DVD recorded with hard drive and built in TV guide. Alas, the TV guide can't pick up listings through our cable. My next step is going back to DirecTV, which we had at our old house, and which used the grid style program guide. By the way, I am a VERY loyal Motorola consumer, with a strong family tie to that Company, but I have had it with the Moxi program guide.
What happened to Ryan Seacrest's tagline? {TV Squad}
Mar 13th 2006 7:14PM My $.02: I am not a regular watcher of Idol, as I find the first few weeks of mocking the talentless to be boring and borderline cruel, even if they ask for it. Once the talent portion starts, I find the time stretching to be annoying and boring. However, when I do watch (or Tivo) the show, I find that Simon's perception of the performances is the closest match to what I was thinking. I disagree with the manner in which he expresses his critiques - the same message could be provided in a much less humiliating fashion, but popular opinion is that tact would hurt the ratings. I am increasingly annoyed by Seacrest trying to "fight back" for the performers, because he usually sounds like a kid saying "I know you are but what am I?". And the tagline was very old. Still think he seems like a decent guy, who is putting in a lot of work to build a career in the path of Dick Clark.
