Dealing with tight storage space vs lots of shows is best solved through a
drive upgrade. Seriously.
There's a very difficult user interface balancing act to be struck between
usability by casual vs "sophisticated" users. Then factor trying to support
the more complex interface possibilities. When a user gets sophisticated
enough to have a problem with how the list is managed, then they're a good
candidate for a drive upgrade. More storage solves a lot of problems.
Sure, it can get tedious to scroll through lots of shows. But it's a lot
less tedious than jumping through hoops trying to deal with season passes
and bad guide data.
Don't forget, the guide data that tells whether it's a re-run or not is
sometimes WRONG. And this is due to being fed bad data, by the network, the
aggregator, etc.
So basically you just get a MUCH larger drive and record all that many more
episodes. Look into it, really, it's worth doing.
-Bill Kearney
> It is a pain since I offten times record the Shows that air every day on
> cable, ('Grounded for life' for instance) and since they come on twice a
> day, and I only watch about 3 per week, they stack up until it cycles
> around to the pilot episode again, at wich time I cancel the season pass
> and just watch the series at my leisure.. When my tivo gets unexpectedly
> filled up and I lose one of these episodes I have no way of knowing and it
> will never record again because the season pass is deleted.. I know this
> is in no way life changing to miss one or two episodes in a series, but it
> is annoying, especially since it should be an easy fix to have the history
> note the deletion at the time it is deleted rather than way back at the
> time it was recorded.. Who in their right mind is going to scroll back
> through months of recordings to see if they can spot which, (if any) of
> the shows were deleted?
