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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Anthony Vaughan" data-source="post: 1255480" data-attributes="member: 153283">Hi CyberSimianThank you for your comments.My system is comprised of several components, one of which allows you to remove phrases from the program name defined by yourself. In other words, it is parameter driven. You may enter as many phrases as you wish to exclude.If you define a phrase to be removed as 'New:', that app searches for 'New:' in all programs and removes that phrase. If you then set up a schedule for any of the programs that used to contain 'New:', the Schedule name will be the name of the program without 'New:'. If you then rebuild the EPG the link between the schedules and the programs that had 'New:' removed will be lost. My app runs the processing to remove 'New:' every 15 minutes, so it quickly reinstates the status quo and the 'TVService' does indeed automatically setup the state of all programs that were previous set to record. The only issue is that we cannot predict accurately when the 'TVService' will do this. I have added the state field to the EditEPG facility to allow users to manually set the program to record when action is needed urgently to ensure a program will be recorded.I have another facility in my system that allows you to consolidate schedules where the EPG decides to do something unusual. For example; the episode name is sometimes included in the program title when it shouldn't normally be. My system allows you to define a consolidated schedule that sees the extra colon for a given schedule and removes it so that any other programs with the extra colon will be edited by my system to contain the normal name and, voila, those programs will record like any other program of that series.I developed all of this for my satisfaction to get around such issues. I started doing this with Windows Media Center and carried on when I switched to MP.The multifaceted nature of my system is why I don't include the phrase removal option in the EditEPG facility because it is handled elsewhere. The sole purpose of EditEPG is to correct EPG start and end time errors and to allow you to set a program to record (using state). However, I left the title field editable in this screen because I recognize that the EPG may be so wrong that it is displaying completely the wrong program and we need to replace that program with a program of another name. I don't really expect to ever use this screen to change the title but I've left it there so you can in an emergency.I'll let you see what the screen looks like when I have got it working.Tony</blockquote>

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