TiVo and Verizon Guide Information Is Out of Sync

TiVo recording the wrong stuff for you? It is if you’re a Verizon customer in the Washington Metro Area. See, Verizon is changing their channel layout, but TiVo’s adopted it several hours too soon. Hopefully by tomorrow this will straighten itself out.

For the first time in literally years, TiVo was recording on the wrong channel. No, it’s not because the cat was pawing at the IR transmitter; I’ve got a Verizon FiOS, so my TiVo connects via a serial port.

According to Verizon’s web page, they’re expanding their service and had to jumble the channels around. Here’s a listing of the old channels and the new equivalent channels.

The changes happen according to this schedule, and in theory Verizon will adopt the new channel sequences tomorrow (Feb 20th, for us VA/MD people).

TiVo, however, has already gotten the updated channel guide and applied it. Meaning, that for the next 12-24 hours, TiVo will be confused about which channel to use. Honestly, Verizon was pretty pro-active about letting people know when the switch over would change, so I’m kinda surprised TiVo made the change ahead of schedule. I suspect we’ll see a bit of griping on the internet and then it will all fade away, given the small window of time.

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