Share Your Ideas with Verizon

[#1]

It would be fantastic to be able to DELETE unwanted channels from the TV listing, DVR…..

I know there is a favorites menu which is terrible, awful, dreadful to use, I also know there is a subscribe option in the TV listing which lists all the channels I do not want or care for.

I just want to be able to go into a menu where I can delete unwanted channels from all views .

It’s very simple to do and it’s called programing.

[#2]

And if you would just use the Favorites function you would get nearly all of what you want. It is easy, it works well, and there is no use complaining about a missing  "delete" function because it is just not available with FiOS at this time (it was in the distant past, before Favorites). I suppose there is the possibility that Verizon might add it back some time in the future, but they have not announced anything that I am aware of.

Have you actually made an attempt to use Favorites? If not, or if you didn't get the results you expected, maybe this will help:

http://forums.verizon.com/t5/Interactive-Media-Guide-1-9/FiOS-TV-Getting-Started-With-Interactive-Me...

There is an entire section in the document attached to the first post in that thread about setting up and using Favorites. And once the Favorites list is set up on the DVR you can use it via the web.

[#3]

please try the offered suggestions, which should meet your needs in a flexible way.

[#4]

Would it be possible to put the STB in parental control mode and block all the unwanted channels, or does that just cause you to enter a code to see them, rather than skip them?

[#5]

The favorites work just fine for me and I am happy with them.  My only pet peeve are those **bleep** VOD channels, even if you have blocked them on your favorites if you type in one of the channel numbers it still comes up. VERY ANNOYING and a Very POOR decsion by Verizon to drop those channels all over the place like they did.

[#6]

What irritates me is I set my guide to subscribed channels only and there is one channel (at least) that shows on the guide that I am not subscribed to. I did not subscribe to any premium packages and this is porno. I tried blocking it but if I use parental control they block out other ratings  that apply to most movies that I would watch. Why can you not just block X rated.

[#7]

 The favorites function is fine, but why not have a "hide" option for channels that we don't subscribe to or don't even watch? 

[#8]

Big thumbs up for this suggestion. Favorites is fine for creating a small list of, well, favorites, but deleting channels is the complement to this, letting the viewer delete the minority of channels they'll never watch.

I don't speak any Spanish, so why not allow me to skip over Spanish language channels when I'm scrolling around, and from the Guide? Or shopping channels. I've never purchased anything from a shopping channel, and I never will, so let me delete them.

[#9]

Scott_r1,

And that is EXACTLY what Favorites is for! Set up a Favorites list, put the channels you want to ever watch in it, set it as the default Guide and never see another channel again. And since you can set up a second Favorites list if you want to, use that for your "small list".

You are certainly not the first to ask to "delete" channels, but as a long time FiOS TV user who implemented Favorites as soon as Verizon made the function available, I just truely don't understand why Favorites does not satisfy your (and others) needs. Can you explain specifically why Favorites does not satisfy you?

Now having said that, Verizon does need to quickly improve the Favorites function IMO: more lists (5 maybe), ability to save a list in case an STB needs to be completely reset or replaced, and copy a list from one STB and propogate it to other STBs would be a good start.