Tivo Deleting Mad Men

[aherold]

I have a Series 3 HD Tivo with Mad Men on a season pass. For whatever reason my Tivo Keeps deleting the new episode without my telling it to do so.

In fact I have seen that it was being recorded, but when I went to watch it an hour latter it was gone and didn't show up in the recently deleted shows.

My tivo then dutifully scheduled the next time it was showing. This happend like 4 times. At first I thought that I may have acidently deleted it and it just didn't go to the recently deleted folder for some crazy reason, then I thought maybe there wasn't enougph space (not the case I have like 80 hours in the Tivo Suggestions).

Now I don't know what is going on and wonder if there is someway that tivo can delete shows or expire them without your knowledge.

I have Comcast Cable - basic so no tuner cards
and an Series 3 HD Tivo.

[pdhenry]

One instance I know of when a show is automatically deleted upon being recorded is if there is no signal on that channel during the recording. Make sure your TiVo is actually able to tune in the channel when it tries to record Mad Men.

[aherold]

One instance I know of when a show is automatically deleted upon being recorded is if there is no signal on that channel during the recording. Make sure your TiVo is actually able to tune in the channel when it tries to record Mad Men.

Thanks I will check that as I really don't ever watch live TV so if it has been deleting all AMC shows I would not have realized it.

[bicker]

It could also be bad CCI flag directing the TiVo to do as you described.

[NotVeryWitty]

I have Comcast Cable - basic so no tuner cards
and an Series 3 HD Tivo.
It could also be bad CCI flag directing the TiVo to do as you described.
Sounds like he is using analog cable -- do the CCI flags come through with analog?

[bicker]

nope ... nevermind

[mntvjunkie]

I wonder if Comcast removed AMC from analog in your market? I know they are slowly (and in some markets quickly) moving all basic cable channels to digital, so they can offer more HD channels, etc. Could be that in your market they determined that AMC was the next to go.

This would jive with your program being deleted after its recorded, because it is no longer recieving a signal on the channel AMC is on.

Why not get a cable card in your box, it will improve picture quality greatly!

[mattack]

You should check recording history. (To do list, then pick the topmost item and find the item in the list, hit right to enter it to find out why it wasn't recorded -- it will show up as something like 'no signal' for the case mentioned.)


This reminds me of something that I have been meaning to post. My S3 still wants to record various items from my season passes, even though I removed the channels from the channels I receive list. This was many weeks ago. (I don't have cablecards in my S3.) I haven't deleted most of the SPs just in case I do get cablecards for that S3. Specifically, I remember I still see Real World and My Life on the D List showing up in the To Do list (and I nuke 'em), even though those channels are no longer analog (and as I said above, I did remove them from the list).

Oh, I just realized something. I *might* have run guided setup long ago as "will add cablecards later" so I could do a channel scan to use QAM channels... But if they're unchecked from channels I receive, they still shouldn't be getting recordings made?

[Jonathan_S]

I know that a manual recording request will still go through even if you've told the TiVo you don't receive the channel (which can be handly for premium channels' free preview weekends), and I think that season passes work the same way.

If you explicitly tell the TiVo to record from that channel, it'll go ahead and try, even if you previously told it that you don't receive said channel.

[pdhenry]

Perhaps, but I'm talking about when it's a channel you should receive but there's nothing on the channel to record. In that case the TiVo will record a show's worth of dead air and immediately delete the recording if it turns out that there was nothing for the whole period.

[mattack]

Mine aren't manual recordings, they're season passes.. which still show up in the To Do list for channels that are turned off.. (and I no longer receive them at all due to the digital switch). (FYI, I already explained why I haven't just deleted the SPs.)

[pcloadletters]

Although I do not have a tivo, I am also unable to record Mad Men do to content protection set by the broadcaster (flags) using vista media center with cablecards. I came here to see if the tivos were having similar issues.

[bicker]

AMC doesn't employ the flag, but your local cable or satellite provider is allowed to, on their own. Here, no flag is applied, so we can record Mad Men no problem. You might want to try to go up the ladder at your service provider, and see if you can get them to change their mind about htat. It can't hurt to ask; who know's maybe they're do as you request.

[mikeyts]

Is Vista Media Center unable to record "Copy One Generation" marked content on a machine with CableCARDs? That's the highest level of copy protection that the cable provider is allowed to apply to AMC.

[bkdtv]

Is Vista Media Center unable to record "Copy One Generation" marked content on a machine with CableCARDs? That's the highest level of copy protection that the cable provider is allowed to apply to AMC.No, it can. Vista Media Center with a CableCard tuner can record the same programs as a TiVo.

It a digital channel is mistakenly set as "copy never" by the cable company, then you won't be able to record that using the TiVo or Media Center.