Am I alone .. my guide data and the preview pictures are just garbage and totally unrelated..
This has been a problem for a long while now the preview pics for movies use to sometimes be unrelated to the movie
but now there are issues with tv shows too.
Only a handful of stations actually have matching images and show names in the guide
this makes it really hard to schedule new movies by browsing the up coming schedule
Is there a cache that I can dump without losing my scheduled shows?
or something?
My Guide Data Is Full Of Garbage
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You can try to empty your Temporary Internet Files for Internet Explorer. This is where all the images downloaded for WMC are cached. It will force a refresh, but if Rovi is providing the wrong image in the first place you will still be in the same situation.
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well i deleted the cache and updated the guide
its a recent new install as I had a drive crash a few months ago and had to rebuild the system
previously it was my desktop.. now its dedicated only for wmc
I am on crapcast with a cable modem
OTA Stations seem to be more accurate for some reason
But I am still hitting about a 15% overall accuracy rate on images matching the movie or tv show...
its just as bad or worse on TV shows as movies
Its really bad or I wouldn't complain about a handful of movies and tv shows here and there...
it almost seems intentionally bad
its a recent new install as I had a drive crash a few months ago and had to rebuild the system
previously it was my desktop.. now its dedicated only for wmc
I am on crapcast with a cable modem
OTA Stations seem to be more accurate for some reason
But I am still hitting about a 15% overall accuracy rate on images matching the movie or tv show...
its just as bad or worse on TV shows as movies
Its really bad or I wouldn't complain about a handful of movies and tv shows here and there...
it almost seems intentionally bad
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Then you're getting garbage from Rovi.ZippyTheChicken wrote:well i deleted the cache and updated the guide
its a recent new install as I had a drive crash a few months ago and had to rebuild the system
previously it was my desktop.. now its dedicated only for WMC
I am on crapcast with a cable modem
OTA Stations seem to be more accurate for some reason
But I am still hitting about a 15% overall accuracy rate on images matching the movie or tv show...
its just as bad or worse on TV shows as movies
Its really bad or I wouldn't complain about a handful of movies and tv shows here and there...
it almost seems intentionally bad
There's always EPG123... I have an extremely high success rate with images thanks to Schedules Direct/Gracenote of course.
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So that makes me really wonder
Rovi has to produce a guide for their Tivos
and its my understanding that at least a few other devices also use Rovi Guide Info
So .. I mean.. this has to be intentional for them to put out a separate guide for WMC that is garbage
I can't imagine Tivo users having the same issue or the other companies that buy their guide info
Its like when comcast takes OTA HD signals and dumbs them down to SD quality intentionally but then will charge you extra for HD over their system when you can get it for free with an antenna.
Rovi must be squirreling out this garbage deliberately and maybe so at the direction of Microsoft .. so they can shutter WMC support
Its got to be intentional if one db has great info and another is 80% garbage
Rovi has to produce a guide for their Tivos
and its my understanding that at least a few other devices also use Rovi Guide Info
So .. I mean.. this has to be intentional for them to put out a separate guide for WMC that is garbage
I can't imagine Tivo users having the same issue or the other companies that buy their guide info
Its like when comcast takes OTA HD signals and dumbs them down to SD quality intentionally but then will charge you extra for HD over their system when you can get it for free with an antenna.
Rovi must be squirreling out this garbage deliberately and maybe so at the direction of Microsoft .. so they can shutter WMC support
Its got to be intentional if one db has great info and another is 80% garbage
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Who says TiVo is getting great info? They are getting pretty much the same data as WMC gets.
There are some mitigating issues that might make it appear that TiVo's are getting slightly better data such as a bug in WMC that prevents certain updates from occurring and TiVo having a more liberal definition of what a "New" episode is, but if you look at the TiVo forums, you will see that they have some of the same complaints about the guide data as WMC users do.
There are some mitigating issues that might make it appear that TiVo's are getting slightly better data such as a bug in WMC that prevents certain updates from occurring and TiVo having a more liberal definition of what a "New" episode is, but if you look at the TiVo forums, you will see that they have some of the same complaints about the guide data as WMC users do.