The Downside of 2.0-ified Yahoo TV

I use Yahoo's (YHOO) TV listings on a fairly regular basis to see what's on any particular night, and then I usually get distracted and don't get around to watching it. The nice thing about Yahoo's TV listings has been that they were comprehensive, fast, and appropriately detailed. It just worked.

Well, a few nights ago, Yahoo in its wisdom has launched a 2.0-ified version of its TV listings, complete with an Ajax-y interface, cool blue colors, social rating of programs, etc. That's all swell, and frankly I wouldn't care one way or the other [other than they broke my URL for full listings], but the darn thing is sooooo much slower than the old listings. Tables have to get populated, drop-downs have to ... drop, and sliders have to slide while data creakily loads.

It's really irritating -- so irritating, in fact, that rather then wade back in to find out what time tonight the new Frontline episode is out about credit cards, I think I'll just watch it on the Frontline site.

Comments

[Macbth:]

After using Yahoo TV for how many years I believe they have lost my readership. I will be looking for another site for my TV listings –
Doesn’t these sites know that even sophistic users don’t like there sites messed with!

2006 Nov 29 12:27 PM

[carlivar:]

I would think the static listings are still available somewhere, since the old style table still shows up on My Yahoo. Perhaps Yahoo will make a link to "classic listings".

2006 Nov 29 04:58 PM