Can we keep the comments on topic, ya'll can argue semantics of caching in a separate thread.
Settings > Guide Database > Maintenance > Re-download Entire Guide
There's your F5.
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Sure but half the job is discoverability.
The problem is not that the UI does not (one way or another) eventually fix itself. The problem is that for the user who does not know what to expect, it feels like the system is broken. There is no indication anywhere in the UI that "yes we know the On Later we are displaying you is incorrect, here's how you fix that".
That's my point -- a button ON THE ON-LATER PAGE makes it clear that the UI is expected to be in a transitional state, and how to fix it. Doing nothing and providing a solution that is non intuitive to practically every user is not the equivalent of that.
Dude, this is a beta feature. We know all of this. The old On Later sat shipped in a half ass state for years without us touching it. We knew it was terrible and not helpful, and now we're finally in a spot to make it better. Is it perfect yet? No. We work on things iteratively.
Your feedback has been heard, and your outrageous tone isn't helpful on this thread.
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Sorry Jon, my outrage is not directed at you; it's directed at this mindset that "no-one should ever criticize any aspect of software; it's perfect the way it is".
I was happy to leave things at my initial reply to you, but I was not happy at the stream of responses after that telling me that I should not complain about the UI because it was basically adequate and what more should one want than adequate.
I've read this thread and exactly no one was telling you that. The problem seems to be your need to be right.
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It’s a beautiful morning! Wonder what’s on TV? If my DVR only had a way to check… wait. 
I’m guessing you don’t want to publish the enhancements you have in the pipeline for obvious reasons, but is there anything you can share about stuff on the horizon?
This IS us sharing what’s on the horizon 
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Fair enough. I appreciate all you’re doing.
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Was hoping for the super secret gantt chart. Thought I’d try. However, I could be satisfied with another epic nerd battle like above. That made my day.
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I really like what you did letting us Fine Tune and select things like Preferred Movie Genres. Helps me to filter down Movies I might want to record.
Is there any way to remove the Genres displaying that I didn't select as Preferred?
I already know what the other Genres are that I didn't Prefer, so I don't need them showing up under Movies or TV Shows.
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Agreed. While the fine tuning is great to surface more of a channel/genre's content, there currently isn't a way to use the mechanism to display less. An ignore or exclude option would be nice.
However, since this is still early days—functional alpha really rather than beta—I can only assume such additions are on the horizon.
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Good idea putting a filter, but incorrect implementation. The point of filter is to filter things out, not put them in them front of other things. How am I supposed to find items from specific channel when they do not show up. I have a group of favorite channels (movie channels) and now I cannot even find out what is being aired on these channels, unless I actually disable all other channels. Seriously?
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Seriously guys, if you could go ahead and bring this beta feature in line with my specifications, that would be greeeeaaaat.
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So feature updates are only good when they match your own personal recommendations?
Apparently. Tone is hard to convey through text. I was attempting to communicate a smart aleck comment about the complaint above.
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I appreciated the Office Space reference.
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I am exploring the feature, but I have 2 observations.
First, I like the ability to browse the On Later listings in the client, but just like the On Now pages, it doesn't work well for movies. The tiles are landscape, but the movie posters are clipped rather than scaled. This means the top and bottom of the movie poster is missing, making it very difficult to know what it is.
(I believe it was mentioned that this was a platform limitation, and Apple's SDK does not allow for dynamic scaling. I find that hard to believe; but if that is indeed the case, another solution needs to be found. I know Gracenote provides poster images for TV shows, and I believe they similarly provide landscape images for movies. Could Channels grab the landscape images in addition to the posters for the movies, and use those in the On Now/Later pages? Or conversely, perhaps switch everything to poster images as DirecTV does in their guide?)
Secondly, when drilling down beyond the initial 9 airings that surface for a category I see multiple items with the "interesting" badge. Wouldn't it make more sense to surface those sooner? Or is their placement further down the list because of the sorting of the algorithm, placing programs from favorite channels higher on the list, and random channels lower? (If that's the case, then disregard this point.)
That's the case.