We're shutting down Couchville

[Rich A]

There is more to just providing support or in-house man-power to maintain something like this. As an open site, on the web with free access for anyone in the entire world, they have to consider the load on a server and/or bandwidth requirements, not to mention hardware backup. SS isn't Google you know.

[hokieinidaho]

I didn't even know about couchville until now. Checked it out, and was pretty impressed. I've used TitanTV in the past, but this one seemed light and easy on the eyes.

[ZetaVu]

Originally Posted by Rich A

There is more to just providing support or in-house man-power to maintain something like this. As an open site, on the web with free access for anyone in the entire world, they have to consider the load on a server and/or bandwidth requirements, not to mention hardware backup. SS isn't Google you know.

This should be a wash with a proper ad supported model, more view, more income.

Then again if it were available only to BTV customers or people who subscribed, that would be another thing. Again, I see no reason to subscribe as a btv customer, and the only reason for non-customers to subscribe would be to also be able to download guide data to their application (which we can't yet). That's the model I think would work best, specifically if you included SS ads for those non-btv users who subscribe. Also keeps bandwidth under control.

[johnb]

Only the best TV Listing Interface in the UNIVERSE!!

Thanks,

Now I will go back to the freakin dark ages.

JohnB

[chillexistence]

Yeah I guess we'll all have to start ordering our TV Guides again... going to be a huge demand for new TV Guide Customers, hopefully TV Guide can handle all these new customers coming there way wanting the TV Guide delivered to their house

Originally Posted by johnb

Only the best TV Listing Interface in the UNIVERSE!!

Thanks,

Now I will go back to the freakin dark ages.

JohnB

[joey2264]

People need to remember that non-geeks (the majority of the population) just want to know what's on at a given time, with a minimum of fuss. Couchville is absolutely perfect for these users. I use BeyondTV, and I happen to love Couchville as well, because I like seeing nearly all the channels I normally watch on a single screen, instead of having to page through the listings like in the Viewscape.

I wonder if Google would like to take Couchville under it's wing. Maybe one of the Googler's can maintain the site on his 10% time. They don't really have any kind of TV Guide listings in their portfolio, unlike Yahoo, and they might be interested. Just an idea!

[joey2264]

At the very least, Snapstream really needs to keep the TV episode listings (the actual information about past and future episodes that comes up when you click "More Series information", and then "Episodes") I use Couchville for this info almost as often as I use it for TV listings. (I know about the same information is available on Wikipedia and elsewhere, but I find the Couchville presentation more convenient, and Wikipedia doesn't usually have information about future episodes like Couchville does).

[chillexistence]

I second that as well, I use the Show/Episodes part of the site all the time, although at times it's not always accurate for air dates, but at least you've got the episode names and summaries,

Originally Posted by joey2264

At the very least, Snapstream really needs to keep the TV episode listings (the actual information about past and future episodes that comes up when you click "More Series information", and then "Episodes") I use Couchville for this info almost as often as I use it for TV listings. (I know about the same information is available on Wikipedia and elsewhere, but I find the Couchville presentation more convenient, and Wikipedia doesn't usually have information about future episodes like Couchville does).

[rugby]

Couchville looks great, but does it actually DO anything?

[joey2264]

What the hell do you mean, does it "do" anything? Why don't you read the thread and find out all the myriad things that people have found to "do" with it before you post on here and look like an ass!

[kimmybear]

Well that's just ducky, considering several people at my office actually used this site for work purposes. Argh! Does anyone know of any other listing service that will go back previous days once midnight has passed? This was the only one we'd found, and we really need to be able to search listings sometimes one or two days previous. Titan TV and TV Guide are both awful in this respect, as apparently a previous day's programs no longer exist after midnight. I guess we're kind of a niche market here, but there were quite a few of us that depended on Couchville to do our jobs more effectively.

[rugby]

Originally Posted by joey2264

What the hell do you mean, does it "do" anything? Why don't you read the thread and find out all the myriad things that people have found to "do" with it before you post on here and look like an ass!

Okay, let me rephrase this a different way since you don't seem capable of reading.

When I'm using couchville to see what's on tv, does it provide any functionality other than showing me what's on tv? Can it download to my BTV? Can I schedule recordings from it?

So far as looking like an ass, you certainly seem to have taken that trophy. I asked a question, and you respond to me like you did? Nice job Ace.

[merrypig]

Just because it doesn't "DO" anything for you rugby, doesn't mean it doesn't do something for other people which is what joey was pointing out. Read kimmybear's post and you'll see that there's at least one thing it does for people for example.

Joey perhaps could have avoided calling you an ass, but honestly, his point was fair. For myself, I agree, not having it integrated into BTV's scheduling /snapstream.net was the craziest thing I thought. And I admit, I never used it as a result. However having taken a quick look recently , I just found it did something pretty useful in tracking down episodes and air dates of a particular show - complete with episode info and so on.

Ironically, now that it's about to go bye bye, I find a use for it. Typical

[rugby]

Originally Posted by merrypig

Just because it doesn't "DO" anything for you rugby, doesn't mean it doesn't do something for other people which is what joey was pointing out. Read kimmybear's post and you'll see that there's at least one thing it does for people for example.

Joey perhaps could have avoided calling you an ass, but honestly, his point was fair. For myself, I agree, not having it integrated into BTV's scheduling /snapstream.net was the craziest thing I thought. And I admit, I never used it as a result. However having taken a quick look recently , I just found it did something pretty useful in tracking down episodes and air dates of a particular show - complete with episode info and so on.

Ironically, now that it's about to go bye bye, I find a use for it. Typical

I was trying to ask a question to see if it did anything other than just list shows. I've never used it, I personally don't think I would ever use it as it doesn't connect to anything useful like my DVR in my living room. If it did that, I would be complaining here as well.

Not having it connect to snapstream.net is the 2nd craziest thing I've heard at this forum....we won't talk about the first one.

calling me an ass for asking a question is just stupid, childish, and he's now on my ignore list for doing it.

[nanook105]

It would have been nice if it was integrated/with/replaced snapstream.net for BTV users, but I still find it useful. I haven't found any other site that does such a good job of consolidating/organizing guide data with historical show information. I don't use it often (several times a week), but I always find what I was looking for easily.