HR10-250 OTA and Season Pass

[Stimpy29]

I'm a brand new Tivo user, so please bear with me. :) I've been using a Replay and MCE for years so I am just trying to get familiar with the Tivo features.

I just hooked up my antenna cable to the HR10 and scanned for OTA channels. The great thing is that I get a ton of them (about 15) in my area. Now I don't get any of the locals in HD from my regular DirecTV programming, so I want to record off of the OTA channels to get my weekly shows recorded in HD.

The question I have is this, let's use the show 24 for example, so if I want to setup a Season Pass for 24, it will show me all of the other FOX stations that show 24 except for my OTA channel (in this case 29-1). Now if I scroll to Monday Night on the guide listing for 29-1, 24 is listed there and I can record it, but my concern is that if I set a Season Pass recording for this, how do I set it so it only records the show on that OTA channel (29-1)?

Thanks for your assistance.
Stimpy29

[stevel]

With TiVo, Season Passes are specific to a channel name. Assuming there aren't any other channels with the same name (eg. WXYZ-DT), then it will record only that one.

[Stimpy29]

Steve,

Thank you for the quick reply.

Just a quick follow up, because I am a little confused. So I have confirmed that there is no other channel name with the same name. I have set 24 to record on Monday night using a Season Pass, but when I check the Season Pass Manager and the To Do List, the planned recording isn't listed. If I select the Upcoming Epsodes it shows me all other channels it could record on but not my OTA channel. If I check the To Do List, it doesn't list any recording for Monday Night.

Am I doing something wrong? I don't want it to record the episode on the SD channel.

Thanks again.
Stimpy

[phox_mulder]

Try going into setup then channels and unchecking all the Fox channels that you don't want to record 24 on.

I did this with my HR10-250 so it wouldn't show all the SD channels, that way I would only be recording HD on this particular box, since I have two other Tivo's that I record SD channels on.


phox

[Stimpy29]

Thanks everyone, that seemed to do the trick. After removing the duplicate channels, I was good to go.

Out of curiosity, is there a quick one button way to get to the To Do List?

Stimpy

[stevel]

Two buttons. Press DirecTV then 2.

[Stimpy29]

Two buttons. Press DirecTV then 2.
Thanks again Steve, I've got a lot of things to learn.

Stimpy

[stevel]

You may find the book "TiVo For Dummies" useful. It has a lot of tips that help you get the most out of a TiVo. In fact, I referred to it to answer your question (since I didn't remember it offhand.) I was the technical editor for the book, which I found a pleasant surprise in how much helpful information it provided in an accessible manner.