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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
I tend not to watch these channels much, so I can't comment on the schedules, but I do find it strange that incorrect titles are appearing on your planned recordings. My experience is that where there is a programme change, the programme you wanted recorded simply doesn't appear.
So my question is, did you set these programmes as a series record from the EPG or are these manual recordings?
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It also happened on Radio 4.
Because I have used so much of my disc space, it is attempting to delete recorded programmes early. I override this by telling it to 'Keep until I delete'.
To create space to do this the TiVo greys out future recordings and says that they won't be recorded.
I then go into 'Planned Recordings' and tell it to record the programmes that it's greyed out.
My logic is that it will grey out programmes more into the future and by then I will have created more space by watching and deleting some programmes.
What I've found sometimes (but yesterday was particularly bad) was that when I selected eg My Cat From Hell on Animal Planet, it comes up with a totally different programme that I then delete from the planner. It seems to do this when there has been a change in what the broadcaster said was going to be shown.
At other times, it doesn't give you an option to set it to record, just VOD. I've found that this tends to happen when there has been a schedule change and the original start time of the original programme no longer exists.
There isn't anything that one can do to delete this (now) rogue entry and it comes up in 'Recording Hiccups'.
These days it doesn't seem to give the correct reason for not recording the programme. Most failed recordings are simply labelled as 'Limit Reached'.
I don't know if this is supposed to be used for cases where the HDD didn't have enough space to record the programme or if the recording didn't take place because the number of episodes set to keep would have been exceeded (I set mine to all episodes anyway).
In this case I would have expected the reason to be given as 'No longer in guide'.
In other cases, programmes have had their start times altered. The original entry remains though and is greyed out- the false reason given for not recording it in these cases is given as 'Conflict'.
How hard can it be for broadcasters to decide what to show and stick to it?
I'm not talking about occasions where sport overruns etc, but cable channels with no live content that show mostly repeats of prerecorded material all day.