While it's definitely good news that Time Warner Cable is revisiting its Navigator guide again, the bad news is that at least in terms of appearance, very little has changed. The screenshots above show the old guide (left) next to the new one (right) and as you can see, other than a color scheme adjustment to match its new apps, things are almost entirely the same. In terms of functional adjustments, names have changed for some of the menus, and now the A button on the remote pulls up channels listed by category, the B button searches by title and the select button lets you know if features like Start Over, Look Back or VOD are available. According to CED Magazine, the guide's (slight) facelift also goes hand in hand with a new cloud-based video on-demand portal that includes with richer graphics and metadata, as a prelude to more cloud-provided navigation and IPTV set-top boxes. So far we're seeing notes that the new guide is being delivered in Syracuse and Charlotte, if you haven't received it yet Time Warner Cable says it will be running newspaper ads ahead of the change in each area -- people still read newspapers, right?
Time Warner Cable starts rolling out lightly refreshed guide with new color scheme, cloud VOD search originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 14 Jun 2012 00:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Thanks for the information Sachiparkeryx! That last bit about the news paper notification is pretty surprising; I didn’t think people still got newspapers. I will give TW credit for having a better User Interface then some of the other cable companies who still seem to be stuck with the look of the 90’s version of the TV Guide Channel. I did see that both DISH and Directv have updated interfaces as well; working at DISH I try to keep informed. Having played with the various UIs available in my area I found that DISH has the best. It operates so smoothly and quickly that it makes the other interfaces seem slow, jittery and clumsy. One tip other providers could take from the DISH Hopper UI is the collapsible menus because nobody really wants to scroll through regional sports channels when they are looking for a specific show to watch.
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