Please provide the NAME of shows and movies!

Maynard_Handley · December 16, 2025, 2:39am

Take a look at the screenshot I've provided. Know what the movie is? Well then you're smarter than me!

The new "look" is appealing, but it goes too far in stripping out ESSENTIAL text.

At the very least on these "info" pages you need to provide the name of the movie (as you do on the iPadOS version).

Honestly, I'd also like the option to show the name in text under entries in all "grid" views. I get that you (and some users) like the appearance of just a sea of images. But this sea is JUST NOT FUNCTIONAL if many of your items don't have an especially noteworthy poster image (again I refer to the screenshot).

FWIW this is Channels 7.01 on iOS 26.2

jasonmcroy · December 16, 2025, 2:48am

Is this the only movie you see that doesn't show the title? I just checked on my iPhone and I do see titles for my movies and shows. If the poster itself doesn't have the title embedded, there is text there giving the movie or show name.

Also, you say this is a movie in your screenshot, but then underneath the description it shows episode one. Do you have movies in the tv shows folder somehow?

Maynard_Handley · December 16, 2025, 3:40am

Do you never record anything from Pluto? For whatever reason, movies recorded from Pluto pretty much ALWAYS record as a "TV show", frequently with some sort of fairly generic poster, like this one, that's mostly useless.

So yeah, I have plenty of these. Many are far worse. For example anything recorded from the Pluto channel "50c Action" will have NO poster, likewise for anything from "El Rey Action"

jasonmcroy · December 16, 2025, 4:16am

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chDVRuser · December 16, 2025, 5:16am

Many FAST providers, like Pluto, use GIGO EPG.
You get what you paid for.
Gracenote metadata
TMDB metadata

Maynard_Handley · December 16, 2025, 6:04am

Thank you for the moral commentary.

But I posted to try to get what I see as a bug fixed in the app, not to receive life advice…

chDVRuser · December 16, 2025, 6:07am

When it shows up like this for Pluto (TV Show instead of Movie)

You would need to move it to a Channels DVR Import directory for Movies and Import it to take advantage of TMDB or Gracenote EPG to see it as a Movie in Channels DVR.

It's not a bug in Channels DVR, it's a problem with the guide data from Pluto (and other FAST providers).

Rice · December 16, 2025, 6:26am

Of course it is a problem with channels poor execution with the new look. Channels indeed knows the name on the program, sure it’s wrong that it is TV instead of movie but it should still show the title of the video no matter what.

Look at all your Gracenote data recordings, no where does it show the name of the program other than the poster art.

Why would it be so hard to show the name of the program in the details when you click on the episode? Frankly the whole flow of the new look is trash if you ask me. It takes like 5 key presses to delete a show now after watching it. It used to take 2 max, one if you watched all the way thru.

Even with his sub optimal guide data channels still knows the name. A nice unused space above the date would be a logical spot for a title.