[Perfect Choice]

But if you have seen previous episodes or series and just want to record/watch new episodes then the default is annoying and you end up recording episodes you don’t want.
An Extreme example of this is Wipeout USA on Watch, there is a new episode every Sunday but over a dozen repeats during the week/ This specific example is an EPG data fault since even when set to new only, it still records every episode.
What is clear here is people have different preferences and user configurable default is the answer which is now in the development stage from my earlier post quoting Nick on the VM forums.

The OP then can set his own defaults for all recordings, in the mean time it will have to be a manual change which is what I do on series links