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<blockquote data-quote="CyberSimian" data-source="post: 1264440" data-attributes="member: 141969"><p>Windows 7 Media Center offered true <em>series recording</em>, where each series had a unique id that WMC could use to record only those episodes that were in the selected series. In this way it was possible to distinguish series "n" of "The Big Bang Theory" from series "m" of "The Big Bang Theory".</p><p></p><p>Sadly, neither MP1 nor MP2 offer true series recording. Instead, they offer various flavours of <em>repeated recording</em>, where the programmes to record are based on matching the programme title. Incidentally, this is the way that Vista Meda Center did series recording. (I used Vista WMC for five years.)</p><p></p><p>"TV Server" supports 6-7 different flavours of repeated recording, and you need to select the one that will come closest to recording only the programmes that you want. I find that "weekly on this day" the most useful. This fixes the day of the week, but does not fix the time of day (so the programme can move around from one week to the next).</p><p></p><p>In the UK, some broadcasters prefix the title with "New:", and this can be useful for recording only the current season, and avoiding earlier seasons. But this is not necessarily done consistently, so you need to check each week that the programmes that you expect to record are actually scheduled to record.</p><p></p><p>The UK broadcast EPG includes binary series ids and binary episode ids, so it would be possible for "TV Server" to support true series recording, but sadly this enhancement is not "in plan", and not even on the horizon. (It is the one enhancement that might entice me to move from MP1 to MP2.)</p><p></p><p>I cannot answer your other questions.</p><p></p><p>-- from CyberSimian in the UK</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CyberSimian, post: 1264440, member: 141969"] Windows 7 Media Center offered true [I]series recording[/I], where each series had a unique id that WMC could use to record only those episodes that were in the selected series. In this way it was possible to distinguish series "n" of "The Big Bang Theory" from series "m" of "The Big Bang Theory". Sadly, neither MP1 nor MP2 offer true series recording. Instead, they offer various flavours of [I]repeated recording[/I], where the programmes to record are based on matching the programme title. Incidentally, this is the way that Vista Meda Center did series recording. (I used Vista WMC for five years.) "TV Server" supports 6-7 different flavours of repeated recording, and you need to select the one that will come closest to recording only the programmes that you want. I find that "weekly on this day" the most useful. This fixes the day of the week, but does not fix the time of day (so the programme can move around from one week to the next). In the UK, some broadcasters prefix the title with "New:", and this can be useful for recording only the current season, and avoiding earlier seasons. But this is not necessarily done consistently, so you need to check each week that the programmes that you expect to record are actually scheduled to record. The UK broadcast EPG includes binary series ids and binary episode ids, so it would be possible for "TV Server" to support true series recording, but sadly this enhancement is not "in plan", and not even on the horizon. (It is the one enhancement that might entice me to move from MP1 to MP2.) I cannot answer your other questions. -- from CyberSimian in the UK [/QUOTE]
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