More programs recorded than asked for
 

I'm new with Tivo, so maybe I'm doing something wrong. Anyway, when I looked
at Now Playing on Tivo, there were a bunch of programs recorded that I never
asked for. When I checked with Season Pass Manager and viewed upcoming
episodes, only the requested programs were there.

Any idea what is causing the spontaneous recording?

"EBD or DKD" wrote in message
news:[email protected]_s01...
I'm new with Tivo, so maybe I'm doing something wrong. Anyway, when I
looked
at Now Playing on Tivo, there were a bunch of programs recorded that I
never
asked for. When I checked with Season Pass Manager and viewed upcoming
episodes, only the requested programs were there.

Any idea what is causing the spontaneous recording?

Those are TiVo suggestions. It automatically records things based on what
it thinks you might like. The more you use the TiVo, the more accurate they
get. You can disable this feature if you want.

But, FYI, a recording you have asked to be made will never be deleted before
a suggestion due to space constraints. So at worst, having that feature
turned on will act as a free space gauge.

Thanks for thre responses. I finally found that in the manual after I sent
the note
"Bob Nielsen" wrote in message
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On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 03:10:44 GMT, EBD or DKD wrote:
I'm new with Tivo, so maybe I'm doing something wrong. Anyway, when I
looked
at Now Playing on Tivo, there were a bunch of programs recorded that I
never
asked for. When I checked with Season Pass Manager and viewed upcoming
episodes, only the requested programs were there.

Any idea what is causing the spontaneous recording?


Perhaps recording of "suggestions" is enabled (that is the default).
You can turn it off.

Doug Warner wrote:

(A feature I'd pay for: High speed playback with audio.) Let us
watch our shows in 30% less time.)

For programs with closed captions, you can enable them and press the
fast-forward button once. Watch (or re-watch) a show in 50% less time.
-Joe

Series 1 Philips. Software version: 3.0.01-1-000
Program data to: Sunday, Apr 4, 2004
Last successful phone call: Monday, Mar 22
Last successful service data download: Monday, Mar 22
Number of season passes: 63
Number of shows in TiVo's Suggestions: 0

My wife's Sony SVR-2000 has only 2 suggestions.

Did the suggestion engine blow a gasket?
-Joe

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 08:21:33 GMT, Joe Smith wrote:

Series 1 Philips. Software version: 3.0.01-1-000
Program data to: Sunday, Apr 4, 2004
Last successful phone call: Monday, Mar 22
Last successful service data download: Monday, Mar 22
Number of season passes: 63
Number of shows in TiVo's Suggestions: 0

My wife's Sony SVR-2000 has only 2 suggestions.

Did the suggestion engine blow a gasket?

If the hard drive is full, your DVR won't record any suggestions.
--
TiVo Series 2 60hr (upgraded to 310 hrs, 9 min)
Philips Series 1 HDR212 (upgraded to 67 hrs + TurboNet)
I watch too much TV, but no one cares except my wife.

"Robert B. Clark" wrote
Series 1 Philips. Software version: 3.0.01-1-000
Program data to: Sunday, Apr 4, 2004
Last successful phone call: Monday, Mar 22
Last successful service data download: Monday, Mar 22
Number of season passes: 63
Number of shows in TiVo's Suggestions: 0
My wife's Sony SVR-2000 has only 2 suggestions.
Did the suggestion engine blow a gasket?
If the hard drive is full, your DVR won't record any suggestions.

Also, if you catch it at the right (wrong?) time, it may not
have much listed. It may be indexing data to populate the
list or something like that. I hadn't reset my Thumbs database
for over a year and was shocked recently to see nothing at
all in the Suggestions list (TiVo + 8) recently. It even had
some sort of message for me about how Thumbs worked.
Shortly after, the list had a of stuff.

In article [email protected]_s04,
Joe Smith wrote:
Doug Warner wrote:

(A feature I'd pay for: High speed playback with audio.) Let us
watch our shows in 30% less time.)

For programs with closed captions, you can enable them and press the
fast-forward button once. Watch (or re-watch) a show in 50% less time.

Probably much less than that, if you're also skipping commercials.

Though about the only show I watch almost fully in this mode is the syndicated
Who Wants to be a Millionaire. Skip past the gabbing with the contestant
most of the time (unless the CC hints at something entertaining), leave
it in 1 FF + CC.. and I usually go through the whole show in much less than
10 minutes.

Even Jeopardy only takes like 13 minutes, and that's playing it at normal
speed (except skipping gabbing with the contestants & going forward at the
first hint of commercial break/end of round).

I did the same technique with the Apprentice recap show, though from
an article on rec.arts.tv, apparently there was more new info than I
thought. So sometimes you can miss stuff, but usually I only use it if
there's an extremely long dialogue-free scene, and the CC is used only
to make sure I don't miss something.

FF + audio (at probably 1.5 - 2 X) would be great though.

Turn off TiVo's suggestions.

"EBD or DKD" wrote in message
news:[email protected]_s01...
I'm new with Tivo, so maybe I'm doing something wrong. Anyway, when I
looked
at Now Playing on Tivo, there were a bunch of programs recorded that I
never
asked for. When I checked with Season Pass Manager and viewed upcoming
episodes, only the requested programs were there.

Any idea what is causing the spontaneous recording?

Robert B. Clark wrote:
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 08:21:33 GMT, Joe Smith wrote:


Series 1 Philips. Software version: 3.0.01-1-000
Program data to: Sunday, Apr 4, 2004
Last successful phone call: Monday, Mar 22
Last successful service data download: Monday, Mar 22
Number of season passes: 63
Number of shows in TiVo's Suggestions: 0

My wife's Sony SVR-2000 has only 2 suggestions.

Did the suggestion engine blow a gasket?


If the hard drive is full, your DVR won't record any suggestions.

That's not what I'm talking about. The "TiVo's Suggestions"
screen is not the same as the bottom of the "Now Playing" screen.

TiVo Central - Pick Programs to Record - TiVo's Suggestions

That screen said "If your recorder is new, suggestions will appear
here after you've used the Thumbs-Up button".
-Joe