Unsub'ed Channels showing on Guide

[susanandmark]

Originally Posted by Curtis0620

Adult block works good now.

Wow. I hadn't heard anything about this, but after seeing the post this morning went to one of my receivers and saw a new "block adult channels" option in the "parental controls" which, thankfully, takes them out of search too.

Thanks for the heads up!

[Curtis0620]

Originally Posted by susanandmark

Wow. I hadn't heard anything about this, but after seeing the post this morning went to one of my receivers and saw a new "block adult channels" option in the "parental controls" which, thankfully, takes them out of search too.

Thanks for the heads up!

Yes, that always bugged me too.

[kovach]

Originally Posted by Tom Bombadil

Many of the channels are now gone. But not nearly all of them. It should display only those channels to which you current subscribe. Yet if I attempt to view several channels from the Guide, I get a 721 Error message, informing me that I don't subscribe to this channel.

Still, it is good to see some progress being made.

Yes, for instance, ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX distants are gone, but CW still showing up.

[cfb]

Funny, I still get the abc/nbc/cbs/fox/pbs distants, and I'm also getting many of the premium channels like showtime and HBO.

I wonder if accidentally recording something from one of them (and getting 2 hours of 'searching for content') or legitimately using one during a free preview weekend makes it get 'stuck' in the guide as a channel you get. Seems the results people get are all over the place.

I did have premier at one point and record heavily during the free previews, and regularly record a channel I dont get by accident, and have had the HD pack. I think every channel the box has ever recorded from is still in 'channels i get', even though I dont get them.

[raoul5788]

Originally Posted by Hemi 6.1

Just another reason VIP's are better then HR's

Just another reason for you to come here and troll......

[cfb]

Just to wrap some numbers around this, I just redid the favorites list I havent used since last year. Told it to add all channels I get, then went through and clipped out all the ones I really dont get, and all the ones I dont want.

I have total choice plus dvr.

The summary showed 900-something channels, said channels I get number 630 and after my trimming, about 330.

Granted I clicked off the ppv's, all the directv customer service/non viewable channels, all the mpeg2 HD channels that I get in mpeg4 and all the shopping channels. Even if thats 250 total channels (and I doubt it is), that would make for roughly 80 channels it said I got that I didnt.

Among them were a lot of distant locals, the hbo, showtime and a few other blocks, quite a few sports channels in the 600's, all the subscription sports channels I dont get (mlb, nhl, etc) and a bunch of business channels you only get when you have a business sub.

Thats a lot.

I'm really surprised at the huge number of crap/nothing channels, after having to uncheck all of them. Must be 50-60 'customer service' or 'customer response' or 'cable response' types of channels. Maybe they dont get any bandwidth to them or are of crucial use in some area or application, but dang.