Requesting "Australian Open" records "2007 Chris Evert Invitational"

[JD Grinnell]

Does anyone else have this or a similar problem?
Requesting a season pass for the Australian Open Tennis Tournament records as expected, except...
It also records a title of "2007 Chris Evert/Raymond James Invitational Tennis Tournament." However, the show recorded is the Australian Open. This would be OK, but the Chris Evert tournament was only 3 hours long, and the Aussie Open is 4:30. So after three hours -- in the middle of a critical match -- the recording ends.
Very strange.

[ZikZak]

What makes you think that it's the season pass for the Australian Open that is doing that?

[Stephen Tu]

JD is correct, but it's not very strange. If you look closely, the season pass is really for "Tennis" on ESPN2, not "Australian Open". "Australian Open" is part of the episode title, not the series title. So this SP gets all tennis with "Tennis" as the series title on ESPN2, which included the Chris Evert celebrity exhibition. If you wanted to only get the Aussie open, one would have to create a tennis wishlist with additional constraints of "Australian" in the title.

Furthermore, ESPN2 is not adhering to published schedules, routinely extending coverage by hour, 2 hrs depending on who is playing, how the matches are going, and pushing/cancelling the following programming. That's why you got Aussie open during the supposed Chris Evert tournament (though I don't remember that being 3 hrs unless you extended the recording). In order to get all coverage, like all sporting events, you'll have to use the padding feature to extend the recordings in case they run over. A 1.5 hr pad on the SP will get most of the bonus converage, but might miss some, in order to get it all you likely have to go in and manually add the shows between the evening coverage & early morning coverage, + the shows after the early morning coverage, as the gap is 2 hrs and Tivo unfortunately only provides 1.5/3 hrs as pad options.

[johnf@home]

A handful of other points to note (learned the hard way):

1) If you just set up a wishlist for "Australian Open" you ended up with a lot of other stuff in the preceding week - I modified my wishlist to exclude anything with "Classic" in the title.

2) ESPN2 and Tennis Channel use exactly the same descriptive text for their daily live coverage, so a normal wishlist will only pick up one of them. If you change the wishlist to record all episodes (with duplicates) then you're also going to get the ESPN2HD coverage. That will run you out of disk space real fast!

3) Tennis Channel haven't updated their program listings properly. They still show a daily 30-minute show entitled "Center Court", but in fact this slot is just part of their regular coverage.

4) ESPN Classic shows some Aussie Open coverage in their program listings, but so far this seems to be incorrect - what gets recorded is some banal show called "Mike and Mike", or something like that.

[JD Grinnell]

Thanks. I appreciate you taking the time to help me understand what's going on.
Of all the glitches I've experienced with software in the past, this one from TiVo seems pretty minor.
JD

[scandia101]

Of all the glitches I've experienced with software in the past, this one from TiVo seems pretty minor.

But there is no glitch in this case.