Record Once a Day

When you set up a Season Pass, you can choose Repeats and First Run and it will only record the repeats once. If you choose "All episodes" you'll get every episode. First Run only will only record the new ones not recorded in the last 30 days on this particular unit.

Barbeedoll

 

This is probably a problem with the guide data, not with TiVo - if the network doesn't provide complete and accurate guide data, there isn't much TiVo can do (aka "Garbage in, Garbage out" ). For shows like this, your best option is to set up a manual recording.

 

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This is a very well known and documented problem with the Daily Show in particular. Until the programmer provides better information to Tribune, there isn't anything that can be done other than a manual recording.

 

@WillP

I know and understand the problem you're having as I have season passes for such things as Mythbusters, Ghost Hunters, Doctor Who (scifi and bbca) and Real World and BBC World News on PBS. These shows and others on discovery and the history channel play in prime time during times that i'm recording from the major networks. These shows will replay sometime from 11pm to 3am or during the day and get picked up then. The problem is that i actually NEED to record the repeats so "first run only" does not work.

My solution:
Every Friday evening I go through my "to do list" for the next 2 weeks and cancel the recording of any shows that i've already seen (ie previous seasons) or "duplicate" show recordings ( i get these most from Real World and BBC World News). THEN...

Every Saturday evening I go back through the "to do list" to see what else may have showed up that i dont need to record and cancel them.

In doing this once a week I essentially only have to go through the 2nd week's worth of shows. It usually only take me about 5min per night to do this. It may take you 30 min or so the first week or two that you do this, but once you do, you'll get used to knowing which is the "original" showing of your show and which are the dupes and you can cancel them quite quickly.

I know you posted this in the suggestions area but "managing" the "to do list" is something that I and my friends that have TiVo tend to do quite regularly and it makes the TiVo experiences a bit more enjoyable.

BTW - one thing that I found that also helps is to make sure your programs that record dupes are lower priority on your season pass list. This usually helps to negate a good amount of the shows that you'd need to be cancelling/deleting manually.

 

Actually, the TiVo considers a show to be "first run" for up to 28 days from the listed original air date (in the guide data). Of course, once a showing has been scheduled all the other showings become duplicates, so (assuming the guide data is good) you'll only get one copy.

I have Mythbusters on a First Run Only season pass, but much of the time it is really recording the post midnight repeat because the prime time airing was blocked by higher priority shows.

 

That is correct -- several of my SP's on cable channels are "First run only" but get recorded on the second or third airing of the day. I take advantage of this by setting SPs on cable channels (which play several times a day) to lower priority than SPs on the "OTA" networks (ABC, CBS, ... which air only once) - if there's a conflict, the one showing of the shows on the "OTA" networks get recorded in prime time, the shows on the cable channels get recorded on their rebroadcast during the night.

 

I agree with the suggestion - and it isn't the first time someone has asked for this, not by a long shot.

For now I handle it by judicious ordering of my SPs and then 'pruning' the To Do List manually from time to time.

 

It sounds like you need to tune the priority settings in the Season Pass Manager. There should be no need to manually tune it the way you are doing.

 

Thats how it should work. It consideres your season pass priority and will find the next available showing if you have something at the same time with a higher priority in your season pass list.