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Why are so many 'New' episodes broadcast out of order for the 'Series'?
If it's relevant, this is for TelusTv-21T. Why are 'New' programs broadcast out of order for the 'Series'? So after months and months we can now supposedly see 'New, Live' etc. listings in th...
FuzzyLogic
Community Power User
Community Power UserPretty much what you said. Telus provides access to the content they don't control how the broadcasters present it.
Part of this is related to rebroadcasting of the same episode. If you've programmed a series after a missed episode if it's available again it's obviously going to be out of sequence.
You didn't mention if you are using the option to only record first runs of episodes. This will help but then you will not get episodes that have already been broadcast.
If you have a solution you can post it in the ideas section of this forum.
Well I'm just waiting to see how Shaw/Rogers broadcast, in particular the first item "Beat Bobby Flay" if they're all out of sync too, I can't remember even though it was only 7 months ago. 😕
As for;"You didn't mention if you are using the option to only record first runs of episodes." Well I count at least 3... It's in the post title 'New', also in the body;"Why are 'New' programs broadcast out of order for the 'Series'?" & "So to visualize this I set a few 'Series' recordings, recording just 'New' episodes" 😉
- FuzzyLogic
Ultimately the issue is how the shows are tagged by the broadcaster. If a rebroadcast episode is tagged as 'new' it will be included in your recordings.
I record numerous series as first run only and rarely experience the issue you are seeing.
and you are using the TelusTv-21T STB?
- FuzzyLogic
I have both the new and old box. Recording is not availble for me on the new box so I cannot test this feature out there.
