On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 12:42 PM, John Klimek jklimek@gmail.com wrote:
However, my original question was about unaired/new episodes. For example, I'd like to record new episodes of "The Simpsons" but I don't want an episode unless it's never been aired before. It sounds like the "Don't allow repeats" option is just to check if it's been recorded which isn't too useful in my situation. Suppose an episode hasn't aired for several months? It's not a "new" episode but just an old one that hasn't aired in a while so I would want to skip that recording.
I would like this option also and iirc there's actually a flag that specifies a new episode. I know at least some providers supply an "original air date" as well which could be compared against the current date if the "new" flag isn't present. It would be nice to set a timer for a show, tell it you want _all_ new episodes, and it's smart enough to detect schedule changes and so on. So basically you could record an entire series (over all seasons) if you wanted to and only need to set a timer once and forget about it.
It sucks to find out there's been a schedule only after you've missed some episodes, or have to frequently clean out a cache of dupes.