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Originally Posted by JohnL  Related,
Dish Network has a feature called Dish Pass. I don't use it. If all your are interested in is new episodes then set a timer for each show for new episodes only.
If you wish to record all episodes of a particular show then you are always going to have issues when a particular show has a marathon, unless you go through all your timers in advance to manually skip episodes that interfere with another timer, again the default priority is that Timers at the top of your timer list fire instead of events lower on the list if their are conflicting timers. Secondly if you have not changed the default settings for recording events, then your DVR is padding a timer in front of the event and on the back end and can cause even more conflicts. If you have alot of back to back events and or record alot of shows the best default setting is to only start and end recorded events at their scheduled times.
When you press the DVR button multiple times you will be scrolled through several screens one of these screens is the DVR Events list and you can use the Page buttons to page forward and Page backward, so you have manual control over your times. You can manually skip one episode here or there.
John |
Ok but here's the problem.
Law & Order's new episodes suck. I only want some of the older episodes, and to get those I have to do "all".
MythBusters has new episodes but I do all in case there are one or two I've never seen before (which happens on occasion).
I shouldn't have to manually manipulate the listing. I should be able to just set it and forget it. If there is a show at priority 1, at 5pm, and a Law & Order at the same time, and a Mythbusters at the same time, three separate channels with two tuners, the show at priority 1 should trump either Law & Order or Mythbusters automatically OR the DVR needs to tell me at the moment I'm setting the schedules that there will be conflicts so that I can tell the DVR which show to skip before I commit the schedule. That's what the Time Warner DVR did. The DirecTV DVR just trumped any show that wasn't prioritized. I'm fine with either option. What I don't want is my DVR just accepting my inputs and then arbitrarily skipping programs on a higher priority. It needs to be more intuitive than that, otherwise what's the point of scheduling/prioritizing things in advance?