They like doing that with the Repair Shop too in the afternoon, they announce a new series but only 3 of the 5 daily shows are new with the other 2 in between being repeats from past series with a different CRID.
General incompetence
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MymsMan
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In some ways it is good in that you can record just the new episodes but annoying if you want all espisodes.
It is a deficiency in the EPG standard that they didn't include a New indicator and BBC often don't include New: in the programme title
EEPhil
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Helpful as though it might be, the "New" in a title is a pain. When looking for recordings many are listed under "N" rather than the programme name. Also some channels are calling things "New" when it's the umpteenth showing of an old programme - it's just new to their channel. There must be a better way.
Owen Smith
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Agreed, half my recordings are listed under "N", it's a pain in the arse.
MymsMan
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I use the newk package and Sweeper rules to remove the prefix from folder and recording titles and file names . (only available on HDR FOX T2)
Giving the limitiations of the EPG entry structure I am not sure what would be a better way. I don't think putting the New: in the programme description would be sufficiently obvious
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EEPhil
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Fine for you. Anyone with a different model is up a well-known creek without a paddle!
Instead of:
New: Pointless - try:
Pointless (New) or Pointless-NEW ?
Problem there is for a long programme name the "new" would vanish.
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prpr
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EEPhil
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Yeah, but you have the tools to remove it on your devices. Many of us don't and "New:" in front of everything makes things difficult. Made worse when some things end up listed under (made up example) "Acme" and others under "New: Acme". All the f'ing messing about to find what I'm looking for. Oh, and sometimes the "New" ends up in the not new folder and the not new item ends up in the "New" folder. 
In some of the Humax sub-forums we have been a little scathing about various unwanted crashes, etc, but this bug in an out-of-warranty JVC (a Currys brand and not actually the Japanese Victor Co, or even JVCKenwood) Freeview TV model really does go beyond incompetence :
Somewhere in Asia, I assume, there must have been a Freeview equivalent of the Fujitsu Horizon ePOS team.
- the EPG links to the Info for the programme 1 hour later when BST is in effect, possibly depending on MUX
- the correct link is shown when a non-DST zone is in effect, but then the time is wrong, because ...
- the TZ setting menu lists badly named (eg, "London GMT") zones matching, presumably, all the territories where the product or its software were sold, and none of these is the required non-DST GMT+1.
Somewhere in Asia, I assume, there must have been a Freeview equivalent of the Fujitsu Horizon ePOS team.
EEPhil
Number 28
The incompetence spreads.
I was speaking to an electrician doing an electrical safety check. He showed me his new expensive multimeter with a clear design fault. There are sockets on an indented panel to allow the change between probes and a mains plug for use in testing. Within a few insertions into the sockets the indented panel becomes detached from the case - pushing back into the meter and becoming unstable. What fool designed that knowing that the sockets need to be used?
I was speaking to an electrician doing an electrical safety check. He showed me his new expensive multimeter with a clear design fault. There are sockets on an indented panel to allow the change between probes and a mains plug for use in testing. Within a few insertions into the sockets the indented panel becomes detached from the case - pushing back into the meter and becoming unstable. What fool designed that knowing that the sockets need to be used?
