Series Record Didnt Work

[danny999911]

Originally Posted by superhoops

Hi and thanks for the reply. Are you saying that the v+ doesn't record repeats?

It knows what are repeats and what are not, so if you set series record to one of the repeats it will record all reapeats. These are repeated all the time so you will end up with loads of the same program. If you set the new one to record, it will set all new ones to record, once a week.

V+ box actually "knows" nothing

All series links are manually set up and they try to set them up so it doesn't include repeats (they have a seperate series link)

If you think a series link is setup wrong there is a thread somewhere that you can report it to the guys and they fix it

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[superhoops]

Thanks for all your replies guys. Does this mean that say I want every episode of Aircrash Investigation, of which there have been several series, I need to trawl through the guide looking out for when it is on and set series record for all the ones that are not now highlighted. Not an easy job when there is no way to search for a programme (why is that, although to be fair you couldn't search on my sky+ box either).
Can anyone shed any light on my other problem of losing dozens of recorded programmes when I deleted the "planned series" entries for some of them. i.e I deleted the series record entry for "Galactic Football" because there were getting too many of them and my son wasn't hardly watching them - as a result about 20 episodes of it disappeared from my recorded programmes. (Also several other programmes suffered the same fate). Thanks guys

Originally Posted by superhoops

...Does this mean that say I want every episode of Aircrash Investigation, of which there have been several series, I need to trawl through the guide looking out for when it is on and set series record for all the ones that are not now highlighted. ...

I can save you some time here - according to http://www.radiotimes.com & http://www.tvgenius.co.uk/ there are no episodes of Aircrash Investigation at all

Originally Posted by superhoops

......there is no way to search for a programme (why is that, although to be fair you couldn't search on my sky+ box either)...

V+ EPG is only useful if you know what you want and where to look - crap really - i use my old PVR just for EPG searching - you need to look on line @ Radio Times or TV Genius, etc

Originally Posted by superhoops

...Can anyone shed any light on my other problem of losing dozens of recorded programmes when I deleted the "planned series" entries

You must have deleted the "recorded" series and not the "planned" series - and that is the way it's designed to work - it's a god send and saves you deleting dozens of episodes seperately - but of course you need to be careful not to mix them both up - albeit it does issue a warning before deleting them
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[superhoops]

Thanks for your reply. Interesting that you say I deleted the recorded series rather than the planned series. Must be more careful!!

Actually Air crash Investigation is on every day this week(and every week gone by for years) - National Geographic

I spelled Aircrash as one word and it shouldv'e been two:

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I can see the series link would be difficult to set up because there doesn't see to be any pattern to the viewing order/repeats

I had the same when i was watching haunting and posted the problem here

I posted that i would rather delete repeats than miss an episode and in the next few days they had create a series link to record all episodes