larkim - 10 mins ago »
But isn't the programme name consistent throughout those series?
The series where for us my wife spent 20 minutes trying to record the ones which the EPG appeared to indicate weren't being recorded were ones where the original episode had the normal name, but the final or subsequent episode had an amended title (e.g. "Grand Final" or "Christmas special" etc).
Had we not looked in the EPG they would have recorded fine anyway, but the absence of the R indicator and the incorrect info in the text page (when viewed from the EPG) left my wife assuming that they wouldn't record, and it wasn't until I delved into the scheduled recordings after trying to work out whether I'd used all three tuners etc that I could see that they were in fact set to record.
So it's all functioning correctly. But the UI is displaying buggy and confusing information to a normal user.
With the latest firmware scheduled events are displayed in the epg with the r flag. At least I haven't found any that are not despite dozens of recordings over the Xmas period.
The UI is correctly displaying what the broadcaster told it to.
The broadcaster has control of which programmes are part of a series. When the broadcaster transmits a programme with a different name to the original programme but has the same series crid then the series name changes to reflect the newest content stored in the series folder.
ITV transmitted a whole season of James Bond movies all sharing the same series crid. The series folder name initially was called the same as the original broadcast changing as new films were added.
BBC1-HD has a similar issue. The Main Saturday episode of Strictly Come Dancing and the Sunday Results show share the same series CRID so they all finish up in the one Folder. The Christmas special also used the same series crid so of course it finished up in the same folder.
A Foxsat-HDR produced identical results to the Aura Folder wise.
So you need to complain to the broadcasters. Good luck with that I tried it.
On satellite the BBC use the same series CRID for all the Nation - HD channels. A few times Scotland Wales finish up showing an episode that is different to England (usually a week later). This results in two or 3 recordings set at the same time. If you happen to have a spare tuner the two will work, the 3 never.
First you know is when the box is about to record it comes up with a clash message which you will only see if you happen to be watching.
In the end the only solution was to delete all the Nation - HD channels leaving only the one you want to view.
There is an unrelated issue with Channel 5 notably if you set the daytime edition of Neighbours which is shown around lunchtime and repeated later.
Depending on which one you set the first recording in the series from, then the following day the early transmission gets recorded twice with the same name and is recorded twice simultaneously.
The solution was of course simple. If the BBC gave each nation a different series CRID the problem goes away. I told the BBC this info and they ignored it.
