new carbon ui hopper experence app this morning
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Um, the picture I saw was a 2 1/2 hour guide, not 2 hour. Yeah, it's not 3 hours like we have today but it ain't 2 either...
Do you happen to have a snapshot of the X1?? We have Cox in our area, and it looks nothing like them...
This was the x1 version 1 Comcast had a few years back. Of course now x2 on the X1 looks different.
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Wait, now we're only getting a 2-hour guide instead of 2.5? Even worse! Whoever at Dish thought this was a good idea ought to be starving on the street, right alongside whoever thought that the receiver coming up on any channel other than the one it was turned off on was a good idea.
A modest proposal to all of the high level Dish people who are monitoring this chatroom looking for NDA violators and other badly behaving peeps. Please pay attention to the many bugs that will probably be reported by users here after the release and get them into the system so that when I call DISH to report one I won't get the usual "You're the first person to report that" reply. Thank you.
If they're legal people, they don't care about any technical merits of the software. Their only concern is how Dish's "property" is dealt with.
Besides, after it's released, those same people won't have any need to look for violations.
It's likely related to text size and readability. In the screenshot above, for example, notice that none of the program titles wrap to (2) lines ? Granted, some will be longer but they still may not wrap to the next line, they just end in "Long Name of Program here...".
Also, in the video interview Scott did a while back, they showed the two different text size choices and I don't recall that the guide changed in the number of hours it showed.
We've also confirmed that it has elements that we've said all along that we do NOT want yet they're still there.
If they're going to violate the Prime Directive, they should scrap it now and move on.And that looks nothing like it does not.
Patience it will come.
If you follow the various Carbon threads that bluegras has fathered (and the DIRECTV UI upgrade threads for perspective), there's one common thread: as much time span in the guide as practical.
If they're not going to give us a amazingly more convenient search feature, they must leave the guide alone -- promotional opportunities be damned.
If they can do the couple hours of work required to offer large print as an option (for the vision and diagonally impaired), do it. A stop-gap with sacrifices is not a solution.
You seem to assume they care what we want, vs. what they think we should have.
You must be new here.
pro·pri·e·tar·y
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of or relating to an owner or ownership.
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an owner; proprietor.
As in Dish owns the software, especially if copyrighted. Hell, with it being the face of their flagship equipment, could also be trademarked.
The same thing TIVO sued for.
You seem to assume they care what we want, vs. what they think we should have.
You must be new here.
Indeed. If they cared, they would allow us to build our channels " à la carte".
I don't want or need 150+ channels I never watch and never will watch.
That's not going to happen until their programming contracts allow for it. Remember both Dish and DTV had ala carte, until channel owners immediately recognized a massive loss of revenue. Now they force the channels in certain packages based on contracts.
