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TV.com or TVRage.com
TV.com
36%
 36%  [ 21 ]
TVRage.com
63%
 63%  [ 37 ]
Total Votes : 58

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Lee85


Posts: 26

PostPosted: Wed May 03, 2006 11:28 am    Post subject: TV.com vs TVRage.com Reply with quote

Hi, I was just wondering what other people think about the change to using TVRage.com instead of TV.com?

I personally prefer TV.com but that could be because I've just gotten used to it.

What do other people think?
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IceMan
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PostPosted: Wed May 03, 2006 11:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I prefer tvrage.com

There are plenty of reasons, here is just a few:

  1. Data on tv.com is hard to get corrected; sometimes the updates are even ignored.
  2. Dates on tv.com are often garbage, I have seen dates that don't even exist like 31-02-2006.
  3. Everyone can contribute on tvrage.com, some would claim that goes for tv.com too, but I have tried many times that my updates just gets ignored or have to wait 2-3 weeks before they are accepted.
  4. tv.com is bloated with ads and spam.
  5. tv.com tried to work against us.
  6. tvrage.com was/is helpful; they even made a custom feed from my own specification where we currently grab all the data.


I could come up with many more reasons.
I do understand that people have familiarized them with tv.com, but I really think this change is for the better.
I can also understand that tvrage.com doesn�t have stuff like trivia etc. but imho that is not what I am looking for, I just want information on shows and episodes. If you want other stuff then most large shows have their own dedicated websites with lots of candy 

- IceMan
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Lee85


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PostPosted: Wed May 03, 2006 12:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What about having separate links to both (like having the TV.com link in a bracket after the epsode name) or having it as a user setting?

Not sure if this would be a load more work for u guys tho!

If not I'l just get used to TVRage, thanks for the site its great!
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astv
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PostPosted: Wed May 03, 2006 6:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This survey is unclear: do you mean which do I perfer for a data provider, or which do I prefer for links?

For a data provider tvrage all the way.

But for the links I like tv.com.

However I'm gussing it won't be so easy to add both - the url for each link is different and to get them myepisodes would have to use tv.com at least partially as a data provider - and they don't want to do that.

Can you maybe just provide a link to the show (and not the individual episodes)? That might be a little easier, maybe not though.
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landun


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PostPosted: Wed May 03, 2006 8:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I agree with astv. Tvrage has more accurate episode numbers and airdates but the sole reason for that is the incredibly slow moderation process that tv.com has. It's a two-part problem. 1) When faced with a problem, the tv.com coders ignore it until it goes away (see Lost season 2 numbering). 2) a lot of editors on tv.com are complete and utter morons. I don't know why, they weren't like that when it was tvtome.

But, tvrage doesn't have a voting system so you have no idea if you liked an episode or not. Had they had that I would've made the switch in a heartbeat. Even though I've contributed A LOT to tv.com (or rather tvtome).
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IceMan
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PostPosted: Wed May 03, 2006 8:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I know tvrage.com is recoding their site as we speak.
But I don't know how high the voting system is on the list.
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gdi


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PostPosted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 11:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I didn't even know about TVRage, but I will always like to have more than one place to look for information, 2 or 3 should do it.
If 1 has some information and 2 others have the same, i generally then use the other 2 as source Smile
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Teloriun


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PostPosted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 7:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

astv wrote:
For a data provider tvrage all the way.

But for the links I like tv.com.


Agreed.
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Zombill


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PostPosted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 7:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I like em both lol
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joesparano


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PostPosted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 7:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I find the voting system on tv.com very helpful - especially for shows that I'd like to sample. Otherwise, the site is clunky, and I don't mind tvrage as the data provider.

It's really a no-contest. There's no substitue for having accurate, useful data for My Episodes.

On that topic, the detail links within RSS feeds could use a look. The "series" link is still connected to tv.com (and broken), and while the "episode" link is connected to tvrage, it is still indicated as tv.com.


Joe
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mlipman


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PostPosted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 6:52 am    Post subject: TVRage is getting worse Reply with quote

Has anybody else noticed that TVRage is going downhill? - No descriptions for shows, incorrect air dates, missing episodes.

Maybe myEpisodes should consider going back to TV.com.
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the_man_stephen
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 11:01 pm    Post subject: Re: TVRage is getting worse Reply with quote

mlipman wrote:
Has anybody else noticed that TVRage is going downhill? - No descriptions for shows, incorrect air dates, missing episodes.

Maybe myEpisodes should consider going back to TV.com.


I haven't noticed this at all. sorry!
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sdss


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PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

IceMan wrote:
I prefer tvrage.com

There are plenty of reasons, here is just a few:

  1. tv.com is bloated with ads and spam.



Indeed!!! It's one of the few sites that i've visited that has an ad on the very first page: if you visit tv.com you usually get "TV.com will load in just a few seconds. Click here to continue to TV.com" and some random tv related advert.
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tpiom


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PostPosted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 6:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'd say TV.com because it has worked just fine and tvrage seems to have a few problem, slow updates with the next episodes and such.

mlipman wrote:
Has anybody else noticed that TVRage is going downhill? - No descriptions for shows, incorrect air dates, missing episodes.

Maybe myEpisodes should consider going back to TV.com.


Yeah I've.. That's why I'm voting for TV.Com
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Ehtram


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PostPosted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 1:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have to admit that i'm tv.com fan Very Happy
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ajlaird


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PostPosted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 6:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

IMDb > TV.com > TVRage.com
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starbreaker


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PostPosted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 11:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've used tv.com for a long time now, but I continue to like it less and less.
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