Honestly, if anybody at this point presumes that the data of the provide is valid, complete and accurate beyond personal and professional experience, that person must surely neglecting reality.
My personal experience… I pay for a 3rd party DVR service which actually works highly accurate after months and months of having trouble with Plex DVR service which include
(a) channel lineup inaccurate
(b) nonsense or missing info for complete channels or individual EPG items
(c) thumbnail generation errors (incl. Transcoder exe crashing) for episodes recorded with Plex [ending up with disabling error notification message from Windows - but without a solution for the crashes]
(d) Comskip errors with commercial cutting
(e) multiple recodings stopping permaturely without any known reason
I offered my thoughts on quality management enhancements as can be seen here:
Since most of this about upgrade backend services, we do not get notified about this in release notes, but according to my personal experiences, this is just another dead end initiative. The thread is closed and long forgotten.
Being a global EPG provider is a mammuth task and it would be much more accurate if you would have groups of concurring regional providers (people could choose which one to use) and contracts which offer contractual penalties for inaccuracy above a certain level. @sa2000 is doing a fantastic job here, but in my humble opinion he’s acting like Mr. FixIt on a flawed structure (again, good job @sa2000 ).
I am running my own Plex DVR only as a backup in case there’s a glitch in one of my paid provider recordings.
