[mythtv-users] Generic Episodes ONLY with SD?
Mike LaPlante
mike at dividia.net
Mon Oct 22 18:17:09 UTC 2007
Enigma wrote:
> Ever since I switched to Schedules Direct I have been having a problem
> with generic descriptions on several programs. I figured it was just
> the normal TMS "poor data " problem, we saw this with zap2it from time
> to time. However, the issue does not seem to be getting any better.
>
> Today while going through the upcoming recordings to deactivate the
> generic episodes (waiting 15-20 seconds after each one for the scheduler
> to run - grrrr!) I finally got fed up and decided to see if there was
> anything I could do about it. Upon searching the list I found that
> other people were having the same problem with the some of the same series:
>
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/292413
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/290628
>
> For the most part, it was discounted with the standard "well, sometimes
> the stations do not supply TMS with current data" answer. However, in
> my case (and probably those cases as well) it appears that is not the
> problem, as the other sources I have checked (TVGuide, zap2it and my
> local cableco) do have accurate descriptions for the showings in
> question. I am not sure about TV Guide, but I know zap2it uses TMS
> listings and I am almost positive that my cable company does as well.
> Is there some reason SD would not be getting accurate listings from TMS
> or some reason that I might not be getting current listings from SD?
> Should I just report this as a lineup problem on the SD site and hope
> they can do something about it?
>
>
>
I've been seeing this a lot with Family Guy, for instance this Wednesday
night my Upcoming Recordings shows I'll be recording Family Guy episode
with no episode data at 5:30pm on CW. But Zap2it.com shows the listing
data as episode "Death Lives". So TMS has the data but I didn't get it
from Schedules Direct.
In fact for the next 3 days I'll be recording 6 generic episodes of
Family Guy. But I'm actually recording an SD and HD version of the same
episode each day. This is because I have the schedule setup to recording
any time / any channel, and not excluding generics.
Mike
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