[mythtv-users] future episode and movie list

[Maarten van den Berg]

On Thursday 08 April 2004 01:37, David Blevins wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 04:44:54PM -0700, Chris Germano wrote:
> > I heard about this cool feature on a Tivo where you can add a title
> > of a movie or show and when it appears in the schedule it will
> > record it. Would be cool to add support for this somewhere. Every so
> > often it can match the list with the current downloaded schedule and
> > if any are hits schedule a new recording. Then we could just list tv
> > shows and movies that aren't currently showing up in this weeks
> > schedule, and when they are found they will be recorded.

I vote for this, too.

> I wrote something like that for my mythtv setup.  I took an opposite
> approach to solving the problem though.  You setup mythtv to record
> the show, then block out episodes you don't want.  When things go
> right, it's the same outcome as what you mention.  But when things go
> wrong, you only end up with a show or two you didn't want--rather than
> not getting a show you *did* want.

No, there is one really important difference.  You can't use your approach if 
the show you're interested in just isn't showing. Let's for instance take my 
situation: I lack the first few episodes of a show because I always realised 
one or two weeks too late that some channel started a re-run.  Now, 
undoubtedly some channel sometime will schedule a re-run again. But when I 
cannot tell MythTV in advance about it, I'll probably miss it, yet again...  

Maarten