[mythtv-users] What's purpose of oldprogram table?

[Tony Maro]

Bruce Markey wrote:
> 
> "oldrecorded" is everything that had been in "recorded" and
> is used by the scheduler to find if upcoming showings are
> repeats if things you've recorded before. "oldprogram" is just
> the titles of everything that has been in the "program" table
> (your listings) in the past 320 days.
> 
> In order to separate out the list for Search Listings->New Titles,
> the system needs to know what the old titles were. The cutoff is
> just short of a year so that it won't grow forever and so holiday
> specials (like "A Kid Rock Christmas" ;-) will appear in the New
> Titles list next year.

Egad!  Let's hope "A Kid Rock Christmas" doesn't re-appear... :-P

Excellent explanation.  Thank you!  And with the 320 day cap, I guess 
it's nothing to be concerned with.

>> If this wasn't GPL I'd be reading some conspiracy into it ;-)
> 
> 
> Actually, it is a conspiracy to spy on your cable provider since
> it extracts the titles from the raw listings and is unaffected
> by your habits ;-).

Aha!  I knew it!  Myth is collecting a list of what shows play the most 
on cable systems around the world for targeted marketing efforts... ;-)

-Tony