It seems that there are increasingly regular problems across a wide range of channels with series link being either wrong, or missing, and it's getting worse over time.
Is series link effectlvely a dead concept that's just being allowed to die as a result of neglect? I find myself wondering if the channel providers want to see time shift recording killed off, as they don't like viewers being able to skip all the advertising, particularly on the channels carrying mostly American content, it's one of the main reasons why we use time shift recording, we value our time, and can watch far more real content when we skip over endless repetitive advertising.
Today is just the latest example, the Legend channel shows Star Trek Next generation as a repeat of the shows that have been broadcast during the week, starting at 10am, and showing 5 shows sequentially.
Today, there were 2 problems, the first was that the 1pm program did not correctly series link, and on closer investigation, it turns out that there was an episode omitted, and the series links were also missing.
There have been similar issues on a regular basis recently with RTE, and BBC, as well as Sky controlled channels, and another issue is where a second showing of the same programme is being incorrectly set up to record, and the scheduled show for a week later is then not put into the planner.
Is it really so hard to get these sorts of things right, given that most of the data being used is being taken from a database, and in quite a few cases, the database has existed for years, and should not be a problem, it's not as if the shows are new and never been seen before.
I'm becoming very irritated by these issues, we pay a significant premium to get what used to be a premium service, but it's increasingly evident that it's NOT a premium service any more, I wonder if it's time to look at alternatives.
As for what those alternatives are, it's not easy, it seems that Sky Q is no longer their preferred option, and Sky Glass won't work for us, the screen sizes don't suit the room, and the place the screen goes into, so we may be forced to move anyway, and if we do, then Sky won't be an option any more.
Shore, if twas easy we'd all be doin it!
