MSN's useless EPG

Hi,

I have been using Media Center for a few years now. First on XP then
on Vista. I mostly watch TV5 on Dish Network channel 731 in San
Francisco Bay. For the last week the listing of the EPG for TV5 is
wrong. At first I thought that I wasn't getting an update but that's
not it. I go to the MSN TV site and it bad there too. There are some
programs that are correct, mostly the one that repeat every day like
the news and game shows but movies are way off and even if it says
movie, there is no description so you don't have a clue what is on. It
would be like HBO saying , Movie, Movie, Movie, Movie. A lot of good
that does.
Anyway I mostly use my Media Center to record program to watch when I
have time. Since they have stopped updating the listing, it has become
nearly useless to me.
I am feeling frustrated with it and I am thinking about going over to
some other Media Time shifting system.
Anyone knows of an email address to Microsoft where I can rant?
Anybody has ever been successful in using a different source for the
EPG. The listing on Zap2it or TitanTV are correct. I would love to get
them instead of that cr....y MSN.

Thanks for listening.

Jeannette

Doug
Mon Jun 30 18:24:42 PDT 2008

You can report your issue here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/mediacenter/using/guidesubmit.mspx

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"Jeannette" <jeanne8_nospam_@eblw.com> wrote in message
news:3q0j64hq5fbmj34fht25ifn4u2qvtqtmu3@4ax.com...
> Hi,
>
> I have been using Media Center for a few years now. First on XP then
> on Vista. I mostly watch TV5 on Dish Network channel 731 in San
> Francisco Bay. For the last week the listing of the EPG for TV5 is
> wrong. At first I thought that I wasn't getting an update but that's
> not it. I go to the MSN TV site and it bad there too. There are some
> programs that are correct, mostly the one that repeat every day like
> the news and game shows but movies are way off and even if it says
> movie, there is no description so you don't have a clue what is on. It
> would be like HBO saying , Movie, Movie, Movie, Movie. A lot of good
> that does.
> Anyway I mostly use my Media Center to record program to watch when I
> have time. Since they have stopped updating the listing, it has become
> nearly useless to me.
> I am feeling frustrated with it and I am thinking about going over to
> some other Media Time shifting system.
> Anyone knows of an email address to Microsoft where I can rant?
> Anybody has ever been successful in using a different source for the
> EPG. The listing on Zap2it or TitanTV are correct. I would love to get
> them instead of that cr....y MSN.
>
> Thanks for listening.
>
> Jeannette

Nigel
Tue Jul 01 03:22:41 PDT 2008

On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:15:35 -0700, Jeannette <jeanne8_nospam_@eblw.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have been using Media Center for a few years now. First on XP then
>on Vista. I mostly watch TV5 on Dish Network channel 731 in San
>Francisco Bay. For the last week the listing of the EPG for TV5 is
>wrong. At first I thought that I wasn't getting an update but that's
>not it. I go to the MSN TV site and it bad there too. There are some
>programs that are correct, mostly the one that repeat every day like
>the news and game shows but movies are way off and even if it says
>movie, there is no description so you don't have a clue what is on. It
>would be like HBO saying , Movie, Movie, Movie, Movie. A lot of good
>that does.
>Anyway I mostly use my Media Center to record program to watch when I
>have time. Since they have stopped updating the listing, it has become
>nearly useless to me.
>I am feeling frustrated with it and I am thinking about going over to
>some other Media Time shifting system.
>Anyone knows of an email address to Microsoft where I can rant?
>Anybody has ever been successful in using a different source for the
>EPG. The listing on Zap2it or TitanTV are correct. I would love to get
>them instead of that cr....y MSN.
>
>Thanks for listening.
>
>Jeannette

That's odd as it was my understanding that Zap2it is the source for the Media
Center EPG in the US.
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Cheers

Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur
MCE MVP

Jaime
Tue Jul 01 06:30:50 PDT 2008

Microsoft, AFAIK, licenses the listing information from zap2it.com.

You might want to check date/time/region settings on the PC and maybe try
running through the signal setup again just to make sure that something
hasn't changed about how the services are listed for your area.
--
James
Orlando (Goofy says "Hey"), Florida

"Jeannette" <jeanne8_nospam_@eblw.com> wrote in message
news:3q0j64hq5fbmj34fht25ifn4u2qvtqtmu3@4ax.com...
> Hi,
>
> I have been using Media Center for a few years now. First on XP then
> on Vista. I mostly watch TV5 on Dish Network channel 731 in San
> Francisco Bay. For the last week the listing of the EPG for TV5 is
> wrong. At first I thought that I wasn't getting an update but that's
> not it. I go to the MSN TV site and it bad there too. There are some
> programs that are correct, mostly the one that repeat every day like
> the news and game shows but movies are way off and even if it says
> movie, there is no description so you don't have a clue what is on. It
> would be like HBO saying , Movie, Movie, Movie, Movie. A lot of good
> that does.
> Anyway I mostly use my Media Center to record program to watch when I
> have time. Since they have stopped updating the listing, it has become
> nearly useless to me.
> I am feeling frustrated with it and I am thinking about going over to
> some other Media Time shifting system.
> Anyone knows of an email address to Microsoft where I can rant?
> Anybody has ever been successful in using a different source for the
> EPG. The listing on Zap2it or TitanTV are correct. I would love to get
> them instead of that cr....y MSN.
>
> Thanks for listening.
>
> Jeannette