Thread: TiVo Just how bad is the EPG at the moment?
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Old 31-08-2011, 22:43   #25
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Re: Just how bad is the EPG at the moment?
The EPG is fine but as mentioned the metadata on some series has been abysmal. I have just cleared out my Falling Skies folder as it had 13 episodes that have been recorded but only 9 have been broadcast. It had the episode called Grace recorded five times four times as Grace and once as just Falling skies.

Episode two does not have a season or episode number assigned to it and episode 3 is marked as episode 2. At least it didn't miss an episode.

Another one I had a issue was match of the Day on Saturday, I set this remotely which means both of of my boxes record it. But on the Saturday just gone the main box didn't record it but was recording nothing else at the time and the one in the bedroom did. At least it records MOTD2 automatically as I keep forgetting to set the series link for it.

And the new South Park data was abysmal I was getting about 20 episodes a week recorded. It is a bit worrying that the metadata is so bad on new series.

Having said all that I still love my Tivo and find it far better then the V+. The Falling Skies falls on a busy Tuesday night where I have Eureka, Smallville and Falling Skies all at the same time. Which is fine on nights where we are not watching TV but when we do i have been cancelling the Falling skies recording and it has worked fine recording another showing latter in the week.
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