[mythtv-users] What's the difference between "record new episodes" and "exclude old episodes"?

[Brian Wood]

On Thursday 11 March 2010 03:53:13 pm Robert Shields wrote:
> Myth can look at the original air date - if it is before the current date,
> it doesn't record. In short, it can detect reruns.

True, but in some cases it makes odd decisions. For example something like the 
"CBS News" it may show the original airdate for that program, which is clearly 
not a rerun.

Nice feature, as long as you understand the limitations and are careful.

A safer thing (at least for me) is to rely on the "already recorded" flag to 
prevent recording duplicates. Obviously without specific episodic information 
this is useless. Stations sometimes only send generic information to the 
database, so you have to blame the individual station or network, not SD, when 
this happens.