On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Christopher D. Heer wrote:
> As others have mentioned, this is because the proper "repeat" flag isn't
> being set in the guide data. Like Megazone said, if Tivo isn't *sure*
> it's a repeat, Tivo records. I have this exact same problem with both
> Daily Show and Colbert Report.
Bad Comedy Central!
> Here's what I do, though this may not work for most people. The Daily
> Show and Colbert Report are favorites of mine, but I tend to only want
> to watch them in a timely fashion since they're topical -- in other
> words, if I don't get to Colbert for a couple of days, well, I'm not
> that interested anymore. (I mean it's probably still funny and all, but
> it's not the same.)
Good point. There are a couple of old episodes I want to keep, though,
because a friend was the guest so I can't have it delete automatically.
What I do instead is go in via TivoWebPlus every Tuesday morning and
delete Monday's dups.
> So for both shows I have SPs set up to keep a maximum of *1* episode.
> In theory, then, I've always got the latest one sitting there for me to
> watch. Whether it's from the Tuesday 10 PM airing or the Wednesday 1 PM
> airing doesn't matter to me, really.
I've never checked - do they always replay the most recent episode when
they repeat in the middle of the day?
> It's not perfect -- reruns can screw me up, and I do end up missing the
> occasional show if I'm busy. But it's better than filling up my DVR.
I have an 80G drive so there's little risk of that. :-)
-Jason
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