Further to my post above, the answer to how it can happen is "3 tuners". The question is why it can happen if each episode of a series has the same identifying mark.
A further question is why the 12 episode limit? It can obviously lead to problems.
A more accurate account of what happened is that when I encountered the 13th episode (no "R"), I set a series recording, ditto for the 14th episode. With the 15th episode, I was informed that there was conflict-no more tuners.
The snooker is shown twice a day for many days and after I had carried out the above charade for both, the schedule was awash with snooker!
I apologise for being an idiot, but it takes an idiot to do things the coders never considered in their wildest imagings!
An additional point is that when I inspected the 3 instances of the recording of the same programme, I noticed that the "delete" option was missing, indicating that the recording was in process. But the machine was not in fact recording. The solution was to press the stop button on each instance. The delete option then appeared and I was able to delete two of the recordings. Inspection of the third recording showed that it had recorded accurately, stopping at the end of the programme, and had not recorded past that point.
This aspect was reminiscent of a problem I had some time ago. One morning I noticed that the recording light was on though no recordings were scheduled at that time. The problem was with a programme that had been recorded the night before. The delete option was missing and the clock on it was ticking over. Pressing the stop button did not work and the only solution was to pull the plug. On resumption, inspection of the recording showed that it had recorded properly and had not recorded beyond the end of the programme.
I informed Humax about this (and that it had happened 2 or perhaps 3 times since last November when I bought the Aura) and was told to format the hard drive. The problem has not occured since (1 March) but as it had happened only intermittently for no obvious reason, I can't be sure that it won't happen again.
Footnote: I don't actually watch all this snooker. I skip past the chat (= drivel) before, between and after the snooker, (and the ads), and also past most of the snooker (which is mostly boring), being more interested in the result than the process. If it looks like a big break is on, I might watch or when I have nothing else to do.
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