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Prioritizing What Show Records
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Posted by: sgupta

I had a manual record in the seasons pass set as the highest priority and must have selected a random show record at the same time. The random show taped instead of the manually set season's pass.

How can I see whether I have any conflicts and how do I prioritize recordings?

Posted by: Krellis

When you selected the show to record, you would have seen a dialog informing you that it conflicted with the Season Pass, assuming the SP was in place when you set up the recording. You would have had to hit select another time to confirm that you wanted to override the SP.

Alternately, if you created the SP after the manual recording (hard to tell from what you said, as you mixed manual and SP a lot...), you would have received a dialog informing you that it wouldn't tape a certain episode, because of the previous manual recording. Again, in that screen, you could have chosen "Record ALL Episodes" and it would have overridden the manual recording.

Posted by: conchita

I sometimes wonder about if a season pass show doesn't show up in the guide data until after you've selected a one time record. Seems like in this case, the season pass will get overridden and you won't find out about it.

sgupta - you can find conflicts if you check out your "recording history" in the to-do list. Even though it says history, it also shows all your season passes epsiodes that won't be recorded and tells you why.

Posted by: mikedaly

quote:
Originally posted by sgupta
... The random show taped instead of the manually set season's pass.

So I think the scenario is the following:

You didn't actually create a "Season Pass", but instead created a recurring "Manual Recording".
This "Manual Recording" was at the top of the "Season Pass Manager". (Hence the confusion surrounding terminology)
You subsequently selected a "one time" recording which apparently conflicted with the manual recording.

In this scenario, when you scheduled the one-time recording, it should have warned you that it conflicted with an existing scheduled recording. As Krellis pointed out, you should have had to confirm that you wanted to override the scheduled manual recording with the one-time recording.

And as conchita pointed out, you can determine after-the-fact why a particular scheduled recording was skipped by looking at the Recording History.

OT: You should probably expunge the verb "to tape" from your TiVo vocabulary. :)

Posted by: cptodd

quote:
Originally posted by mikedaly
OT: You should probably expunge the verb "to tape" from your TiVo vocabulary. :)

I still do that when I post here. I find myself having to go back and edit the post. :o

Posted by: michaelallroy

quote:
Originally posted by conchita
I sometimes wonder about if a season pass show doesn't show up in the guide data until after you've selected a one time record. Seems like in this case, the season pass will get overridden and you won't find out about it.

i've had this happen to me - particularly, buffy is my #2 season pass, but because it's in syndication i have to have it set to FRO. for some reason, the EPL review show on fox sports world has never had a season pass available, so i would sometimes set it to record manually. i set one of these to record when there was no guide info yet for a buffy that was a couple weeks away. at some point, the guide info came in for buffy, and although it was a first-run, the EPL show was recorded instead. some kind of warning would be awesome in these situations, though i don't know how difficult it would be to do. i've taken to just trying not to ever set one-off recordings that run over the timeslot of any of my favourite FRO shows.

Posted by: Lori

Since Buffy reruns are on FX and not UPN, your season pass shouldn't pick them up at all--season passes are channel specific, so they won't get eps of a series that air on a different channel.

I have two season passes for Buffy for this reason, one for the new shows on UPN and one for the FX repeats.