What is Mystro?

I've blogged about Time Warner Cable box problems before—an entry where I mistakenly refer to the newer, inferior Time Warner cable box software as "Mysto" instead of the proper "Mystro"—like Maestro! (I've since corrected that entry.)

Well, Time Warner's done it now...

After swapping out a dozen cable boxes until they finally gave me one with the older, more reliable software on it... they've automatically upgraded my perfectly-fine box...

Tuesday morning, I found this abomination gracing my plasma screen:

For the record, I live on the Upper West Side, in the 90s.

Less than 24 hours with the new Mystro program and I've encountered a potentially major issue:

I set the box to record two programs on the Science Channel, Tuesday afternoon.

It seemed to record them. Listed them properly in my recorded shows menu. But when I tried to play them, what did I find...?

"Mystro" recorded two shows from the GAME SHOW CHANNEL. (A channel I never watch, thankyoueversomuch.)

In and of itself, not a big deal. But I don't really like the idea of the cable box going rogue on me whenever it feels like it.

WTF?

More to come, I fear...