this isn't working all of a sudden and my HDDVR is filling up with Repeat Episodes of Children's shows that shouldn't be recording.

This may sound like a dumb question but... Did you press "list" and go to "Series Manager" and delete the suspect program?

it is pretty much every program set to record.

I'm sorry but I don't quite understand. Are you having trouble deleting programs? Is the problem program showing or not showing on the list? Because if every channel is set to record, then it seem that deleting the problem program would be the solution. Can you give us a more detailed explanation of what's going on??

Maybe you can just delete every program on the list then unplug the box and plug it back in. If the problem stops then you can re-build your recording list.

the problem seems to have corrected on its own.

My guess is the problem was related to the program guide Data. Which is how the box knows if its "new" or "repeat" its possible there was no new or repeat code in the guide for those programs so the box just recorded them to be safe.

Very interesting. So if the box doesn't see a change in the data then it will just repeat the same process?


My guess is the problem was related to the program guide Data. Which is how the box knows if its "new" or "repeat" its possible there was no new or repeat code in the guide for those programs so the box just recorded them to be safe.

Correct, the DVR only knows what the Guide tells it. So if the Guide is wrong the DVR will record wrong.