TV browser
Posted by David Zaslavsky onWay back when I was first looking for a program to display TV schedule listings, I tried TV-Browser and decided against it because the listings are arranged in a big grid so that you have to scroll sideways pretty far to see what’s on the various channels. But now, I decided to take a closer look at it and I’m thinking that the other features of the program may be enough to make up for that. Up until today, I’ve mostly been using Maxemum TV Guide, which, while being perfectly adequate, is rather bland. The user interface is pretty basic, which is not a bad thing in and of itself, but it gives the impression that not a lot of work was put into the design. This is clearly not the case with TV-Browser. There’s a lot of information, a lot of options, and the grid organization is more intuitive than Maxemum TV Guide’s simple list. Plus, it looks like you can define channel groups to limit the amount of data shown at any one time, which kind of reduces my major complaint. So it looks like I’m switching to TV-Browser.