On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 2:12 PM, I wrote:
>
> Are you absolutely sure? Even though it's not listed, my DVR -- also an
> Scientific Atlanta -- sorts the titles with punctuation with the numbers,
> and I don't believe it is a case of it ignoring the punctuation as "'90s"
> (apostrophe-nineties) does not list near "$99 Golf Driver" (dollar-sign
> ninety-nine...). It sorts like this. Apostrophes first, then parentheses
> ("(500) Days of Summer"), then numbers in dumb-alphanumeric order (1, 10,
> 11, 12... 2, 20, 21, 22... etc.), and apparently last dollar signs. That
> said, it does ignore words like "The" and "A", thus "The $25,000 Pyramid" is
> listed at the end of the numeric/punctuation list.
>
> This is a picture of how the DVR sorts punctuation and stuff on my end
> (listed in the 0-9 section)...
>
> http://twitpic.com/2h8qsn
>
>
This is probably a better example of how it sorts listings.
http://twitpic.com/2h9pwd
In this case the order is as follows:
'90s
(500) Days of Summer
0700 News Breakfast
1 vs. 100
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