Problem with ER Season Pass?

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I've got a season pass for ER on my DirecTivo Series 1 -- it's set to
record new episodes, only. Last night was a new episode, but it didn't
record. I can't figure out what happened -- I noticed it only after the
show started, so I couldn't check the ToDo list. It does appear in the list
for future new episodes. The program description indicated that it was a
new episode.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Archived from groups: alt.video.ptv.tivo (More info?)

> My best guess is this show guide information doesn't contain an 'Original
> Air Date' tag so TiVo didn't know what to do. It would appear that TiVo
> assumes all shows are re-runs if there is no 'Original Air Date' flag.

That is what happened. I noticed that my DirecTiVo wasn't set to record ER
even after I saw an ad showing a new episode coming up. So I checked the
program info and there was no air date listed. Luckily, it was before 10,
so I was able to add it to the list in time.


"Mike Hunt" <in2sheep@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:116if8vo4q0hp20@corp.supernews.com...
> On 2005-04-22, PTravel <ptravel@ruyitang.com> wrote:
> > I've got a season pass for ER on my DirecTivo Series 1 -- it's set to
> > record new episodes, only. Last night was a new episode, but it didn't
> > record. I can't figure out what happened -- I noticed it only after the
> > show started, so I couldn't check the ToDo list. It does appear in the
list
> > for future new episodes. The program description indicated that it was
a
> > new episode.
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> My best guess is this show guide information doesn't contain an 'Original
> Air Date' tag so TiVo didn't know what to do. It would appear that TiVo
> assumes all shows are re-runs if there is no 'Original Air Date' flag.
>
> I wonder how often that assumption is correct vs. incorrect. I would
> consider this a bug in the scheduler; I would think it better to record
> unknown re-runs than to potentially miss real new-runs.

Archived from groups: alt.video.ptv.tivo (More info?)

In article <G9CdnSJnV69bKPbfRVn-1w@speakeasy.net>,
"wkearney99" <wkearney99@hotmail.com> wrote:

> It's no doubt due to NBC's screwing around with the start times. I
> specifically don't bother to watch the programs that do this. I'll wait for
> them in reruns on a different network instead of putting up with their
> advertising-driven abuse.

Some programs are edited to make them shorter to allow for more
commercials when in reruns.