[mythtv-users] Anyone else have guide data problems? (SchedulesDirect only)
Josh White
jaw1959 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 26 17:14:13 UTC 2008
I had a problem where I tried to record the Macgyver episode of Mythbusters,
and I got "How it's made" instead. I didn't do any investigation to
determine if the lineup changed, or if it was a database error or what.
This happened last week some time.
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:07 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com>
wrote:
> > Now I had the problem again with a Dirty Jobs episode. So I went to
> look
> > at the next airing of the episode. My Mythtv shows it airing tonight.
> > For some reason I decided to look at tvguide.com and zap2it.com. Both
> of
> > them show the same episode, BUT different than what I show.
> >
> > For Feb 26th at 8:00PM EST on Discover Channel
> > tvguide.com Dirty Jobs - Icky, Gooey and Sticky Food Jobs
> > zap2it.com Dirty Jobs - Icky, Gooey and Sticky Food Jobs
> > My Mythtv Dirty Jobs - Brown Plate Special
> >
> > The same episode is wrong at Feb 27th at 1:00AM
> >
> > So I stopped mythbackend, ran mythfilldatabase --refresh-all, but my
> > guide data still shows the wrong data.
> >
> > I'm not THAT concerned with getting tonight's issue fixed. My problem
> is
> > I have this happens often enough that it's frustrating.
> >
> > Is anyone else seeing these problems?
> >
> I had these in the past with SD particularly with the Discovery
> Channel but to SD's defense we find the local papers copy of TV Guide
> to be wrong so many times that my girlfriend has given up on using it
> and asks me to check myth to see what is really on tonight..
>
> I think the big problem here is the networks do not always send the
> correct data to the people who collect this data.
>
> John
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