Fairly recently there have been a couple of changes to the TV guide that to me ruin the looks and detract from the experience. I'm talking about the category colors and the current time line. I wouldn't have either of these enabled if I had a choice. It's made even worse by the choice of colors. The current-time line is drawn with such a high contrasting color that it sticks out like a sore thumb in my all-black Theater View background. And the category colors seem to have been chosen from a pallet of colors appropriate for a saturday morning cartoon. It's jarring. The best possible solution would be to make these colors configurable. This is the perfect kind of thing for a skinning engine or some other kind of configuration file. Short of that, at least there could be options in the Television Options panel, under the Guide heading, to turn these features off. There's really no excuse not to.
