Another Update to Updates Received/Not Received 3/22/18:: Time Warner Cable :: Albany, NY :: Zip Code 12203
[Okay, Celestial Method #5 has shown up in Girl Power, an everything has arrived on On Demand. So the 3/22/18 shipment is complete.
And now, as promised, here’s how you get it back. (It’s actually the name “Canaan 02” that’s missing and the episode Canaan #3 that’s hard to find, but that’s probably being over-precise for our purposes.)
But first the usual terminological stuff, so that it’s comprehensible: I’m using boldface to indicate the episode itself, as opposed what the episode is called in the listings on Cutting Edge, or the On Demand Portal; I use quotation marks for those names. I.e., boldface is what episode you actually see when the episode content plays, and “quotation marks” is the name you see in the listings.
Here’s Ye Olde Kludge for Cutting Edge:
Kludge for Cutting Edge
Step One: Play “Canaan 03” from the listing under Action Zone; this will actually start Canaan #2;
Step Two: Stop the episode anywhere; this gives you the regular Resume/Restart/Exit menu; choose Exit (or escape via the Exit button on the remote);
Step Three: This should take you to your In Progress menu, with a “Canaan 02” in your list (after all, that was what was playing); select “Canaan 02”, but not by using the Select button (using Select just resumes the episode directly)-- instead use the Info button, as though you wanted to look at the description; this gives you a menu with the unusual “Other Viewing Options” choice; choose that;
Step Four: This in turn gives you a menu with a “Play SD” option; choosing that should start Canaan #3 , and when you exit the episode, you’ll have a “Canaan 03” in your In Progress list to go along with “Canaan 02”.
Note: Once you’ve done this, be prepared for menus with one or more odd options when you select the episode from your In Progress list, or by going back into Action Zone. Generally, you get two sets of Resume SD and Restart SD choices, one set for #2 and one set for #3, but they both look the same. The episode descriptions will usually tell you which set of selections goes with which episode. Regardless, you can usually find something amongst them that will straight up play the episode you’re looking for, or at least starts up Canaan #2 so you can go through Steps One through Four again. And, of course, after 24 hours everything resets and you’re back to square one.
And now for On Demand:
Note: As they sometimes do on the On Demand side, they left the numbers off the episodes for Canaan, so all you have to go on is the title.
Kludge for On Demand
Step One: Access the Canaan folder–which is now, in the upgraded program, a colorful tile or box–via On Demand. There’s lots of pathways to access a show via On Demand–at least half a dozen–but it doesn’t really matter which one you use, eventually you drill down to the list of Canaan episodes. I usually go in by Network=>Anime Network=>Canaan. However you get there, once you’re there,
Step Two: Select “Worthless Games”, which is #2’s title , using the Info button and not the Select button (the Select button will just start playing one of the episodes directly, not giving you any ability to get to the other episode);
Step Three: This brings you to the episode’s Info screen, where you have a menu box with two choices, “Watch” and “All Airtimes” ("“All Airtimes? But this is On Demand, Jababbi–any time is airtime.” I know, just roll with it–it actually makes more sense than it sounds…) Like “Select”, “Watch” just starts up an episode directly, so instead you…
Step Four: …choose “All Airtimes”. This will give you a list of two identical lines. One of them will get you to Canaan #2; the other will get you to Canaan #3. There’s nothing to tell you which is which, but with only two choices, it’s no big deal if you guess wrong the first time through–just stop the episode and go back and choose the other one. (I think the top line starts lower-numbered episode, and the bottom one starts the higher-numbered one, and I’m pretty sure this is constant, but YMMV. Let me know.)
Step Five: Watch.
Sorry, I know this is almost a week later than I promised. My apologies.
(Now for two of my other commitments-left-hanging, the show suggestions and the long-unanticipated–or long-dreaded–dub stuff.)