Comments on: How do you fool a TiVo? Change the name of the show http://www.purepvr.com/2006/07/26/how-do-you-fool-a-tivo-change-the-name-of-the-show/ PVR / DVR / TiVo - We have it all Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:33:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: MegaZone http://www.purepvr.com/2006/07/26/how-do-you-fool-a-tivo-change-the-name-of-the-show/comment-page-1/#comment-474 MegaZone Wed, 26 Jul 2006 23:52:35 +0000 http://www.purepvr.com/2006/07/26/how-do-you-fool-a-tivo-change-the-name-of-the-show/#comment-474 Actually it isn't the name, per se. There is a series identifier in the shows metadata that the TiVo, and other DVRs to my knowledge, use. The name can change as long as the ID does not, and the recording will keep going. But if the ID changes, even if the title doesn't, it breaks. This has come up before. One of the most famous is the name change with 'Enterprise' to 'Star Trek: Enterprise' (or vice-versa, whatever). They changed the name AND ID, and everyone scrambled to change their Season Passes - then they changed the ID *back*, so anyone who hadn't changed their SP started getting it again and those who 'fixed' it, broke. More recently the anime series Samurai 7, which is on IFC, had the ID change for no reason I could find. I just noticed my SP wasn't going to record a new episode, so I recreated the SP and it started working again. The title hadn't changed. This kind of thing is pretty rare, however. Actually it isn’t the name, per se. There is a series identifier in the shows metadata that the TiVo, and other DVRs to my knowledge, use. The name can change as long as the ID does not, and the recording will keep going. But if the ID changes, even if the title doesn’t, it breaks.

This has come up before. One of the most famous is the name change with ‘Enterprise’ to ‘Star Trek: Enterprise’ (or vice-versa, whatever). They changed the name AND ID, and everyone scrambled to change their Season Passes – then they changed the ID *back*, so anyone who hadn’t changed their SP started getting it again and those who ‘fixed’ it, broke.

More recently the anime series Samurai 7, which is on IFC, had the ID change for no reason I could find. I just noticed my SP wasn’t going to record a new episode, so I recreated the SP and it started working again. The title hadn’t changed.

This kind of thing is pretty rare, however.

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