Is My TiVo Elite Really That Smart???

"An episode is new to you if (1) the original air date is some time in the last 28 days and (2) it has not appeared in the To Do List or Now Playing List in the last 28 days."

 

It isn't that uncommon for me to cancel a season pass recording because I know it will record the next repeat. As stated above, it uses the 28 day rule to determine whether to record it or not.

 

I've always wondered that and was afraid to risk it. Now I intend to use the "First Run Only" option a lot more!

 

Fair warning Innerloop. The TiVo is smart enough, but the guide information isn't consistent enough. Come to rely on FRO and mark my words, you will get burned.

Case in point, CSI from last week was marked with a "new" tag even though it was an episode from early October. It is just as likely that had it been a new episode, it wouldn't have been marked as new in the guide data.

 

Better to have it marked as new and be a repeat than marked as a repeat for a new episode.

Personally I typically run my SPs with new episodes. The guide data has typically been very accurate for my shows.

 

All my SPs are FRO, except...

There is a problem with shows that have aired elsewhere first, for example Canada or UK. Often they will be tagged with the OAD of the original non-US showing. A FRO SP will not record these shows.

Perfect example: Flashpoint. Airs in Canada before we get it. OAD is several months prior to our first showing. So my SP kept skipping it, thinking it had already aired here. I had to change to the "Repeats also" setting to get it to record.

 

Yes, shows that aired in other countries first can have this problem. The only issue I have ever seen with a US show is Friday Night Lights because it aired on Directv before it aired on NBC. Other than that, all of my season passes are FRO.

 

I also had a repeat of the season finale of Terra Nova get recorded, despite a "New Only" season pass.

 

It will if there is no original air date. Sometimes Tribune doesn't list episode info and TiVos will always record an episode if it doesn't have the OAD just to be safe.

 

i always record first run only because once i set it to record first run and repeats for the simpsons and i must of had about 300 episodes set to record!! after that i strictly stay with first run only and havent had any problems yet.

 

There is no "new tag". It is based on Original Air Date. If you mean that the rerun was marked with a (recent) Original Air Date, or the Original Air Date was missing, then yes, it would record.. But that is completely different from any "new tag", which I am inferring you mean the "(N)" in the human readable text, WHICH IS NOT USED.

 

Is that because when the season finale aired back on December 19th it was a single two-hour block consisting of episode 12 ("Occupation") and episode 13 ("Resistance") and those episodes are now being aired as two one-hour episodes - "Occupation" last Saturday (1/14) and "Resistance" this coming Saturday (1/21)?

I have the bulk of Terra Nova episodes sitting on my TiVo unwatched (still trying to decide if I'm interested enough to burn through them) so, I have the 12/19 two-hour block ("Occupation; Resistance") and the 1/14 episode ("Occupation"). I'm also pretty sure I had the 1/21 airing ("Resistance") in my To Do List at one point but, it doesn't appear to be set to record now. My Season Pass for Terra Nova is FRO.

FWIW - it looks like FOX may be doing something similar with the Alcatraz pilot episode(s)...

 

This is the information I am looking for. Thanks.

 

If you do decide to watch it, make sure you have the ENDING of each show before you nuke "duplicates".

I don't remember which one(s), but if you didn't have padding, one of the episodes cut off at the very end.. I caught one of the re-reruns again, to get the end.

(I now have all but the premiere of the show.. That's still on my dead Tivo drive.)