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Dear Directv,
It's your old pal, LAist here. Your biggest fan.
We've had you for years, we even installed you into our friends' homes, and even on strangers' roofs. We get all the channels and most of the sports packages. We love you.
There is one thing that has bothered us for quite a while though, and we were just reminded of it. What is your problem with The Daily Show and MSNBC's Countdown? We can't Season Pass those shows without getting all of its airings. All we want is First Run Only and yet on the right is what we see on our To Do List - every show will be recorded.
We noticed that this is the case for Countdown with Keith Olbermann too. If you try to Season Pass his shows, asking only for the First Run, you will get the reruns and everything. It's a disaster, Directv.
We know when the first run of those shows are on. Can we plug them in for you? Can we work part time for you and get free Directv? We'll do it. Don't think we won't.
If we've gotta go in there and weed out the not-First-Run episodes for ourselves, we might as well help out our neighbors. Right?
Your coverage of SXSW was totally amazing, by the way. Eight hours of live programming every day? Damn! Matt Pinfield is a god and to have Andrew WK in there asking questions to people like Lee "Scratch" Perry was brilliant. So thanks.
And thanks for getting on this problem with two very popular programs!
xoxoxox
LAist
ps Looks like we're not the only ones noticing this issue.
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Easy fix. You can program Tivo to record by time and channel. If you're on DirecTV, you can program it to record channel 249 every night from 10 to 10:30. Or 10 to 11 if you want to also get Colbert. Just go to the main Tivo menu and choose "Pick Programs to Record". Then once in that menu, click on "Record by Time or Channel." You'll want to the M-F option. The only draw back is that you'll then record some horrible movie or stand-up on Friday night.
although that is a good start it does not solve the problem of recording reruns during that hour.
what happens when Stewart goes on vacation for a week? i now have a week of stuff i dont want. how big do you think my harddrive is?
- dont answer that.
The only problem with the manual programming solution is that you lose TiVo's ability to record only first run episodes.
You could also adjust your season pass to tell TiVo to only keep one episode. But then you need to watch it quickly, before the next night's episode overwrites it.
The problem isn't with Tivo, it's with how the networks tag the shows. I just do the record 11-12 thing for Monday through Thursday.
True. The problem isn't with Tivo it's with the networks. It's the same with my DVR service from Time Warner.
I have a similar problem w/ the Colbert Report. I only get the first run Mondays through Thursdays, but it records all Monday's day broadcasts also, but no other days...
I just go through the "To Do" list about once a week and choose "do not record this episoide" option for those non-11:00 pm showings (or non-11:30 for Colbert or non-5:00 for Olbermann). (As for reruns, they are usually not more than a month old, so the hamsters in my tivo know not to record them again.) Sure its a pain in the butt, but it appeals to the part of me that is OCD and gets enjoyment out of cleaning things. I really feel like I've accomplished something when I do that.
although i would have to agree that the originating problem might be with the networks, it's Tivo's product. All Tivo does is help you see the shows you want. The networks, however have many things to worry about, which is why Tivo and Directv should be working together to make this happen as smoothly as possible.
I have the same problem with my TimeWarner DVR for the Daily Show.
Strangely, TiVo sometimes also starts taping the syndicated "Simpsons," even though I only have it Season Pass'd for the Sunday night originals. I've always run into the same problem for the Daily Show, so I manually TiVo it every week.
Another thing I do: I even tape the repeats, because ocassionally TiVo is WRONG and what it tags as a repeat is actually an original.
But I don't get mad at the TiVo. The pure joy it has brought to my life through the years is well worth its minor shortcomings.
I've seen this mentioned before but my DTivos don't have this problem. Mondays, yes, I get 2-3 reruns and the first run showing. But Tuesday through Thursday I only get one TDS per day, the original airing. And when Jon's on break I don't get any, except the Monday morning ones.
I subscribe to the Daily Show via iTunes and the tagging changes all the time. Sometimes the genre is "Comedy" other times it's "TV Shows". I'm not surprised Tivo users are having "issues".
As others have said, this is not a DirecTV problem, or a Tivo problem. It's a Comedy Central problem, or more specifically a problem with the data that Comedy Central (and other networks) send to the company (Tribune Media Services) that aggregates the guide data and sends it out to DirecTV/Tivo/Comcast/Time Warner/whoever.
It is a problem with the MythTV feeds from zap2it, too. It would appear that the schedule feeds may be at fault.
but it is a tivo problem ... in the show descriptions for reruns there is a an "R" at the end. so tivo is getting data that flags the shows as reruns
I've noticed a very odd problem with my DirecTivo.... When I set it to record a prime time show on L.A.'s channel 7, it ends up trying to record the East Coast ABC feed on channel 386, three hours earlier, instead. Which would be fine if we were allowed to get East Coast local channels here, but we're not. So it ends up not recording anything.