Comcast DVR: Can't Restrict Series Record to One Broadcast

Expanded from Comcast DVR Bugs: The Bottomless List

No way to specify the recording of one particular showing of a series.

  • A "season pass" gets you every single broadcast of every single episode.
  • That means that if the user wants to record a series that is rebroadcast more than once, then the Comcast DVR software will record every single copy of it.
  • The programmers were sans clue apparently that cable networks love to broadcast "new" episodes many times. (Too bad the programmers weren't involved with a cable distribution network. Oh wait.... they're Comcastic.)
  • Watch out user, particularly if you set up a season of something HD on a Bravo-related channel. You're DVR will fill up with nothing but that one show! Major comcastic.

(This is one article in a series attempting to catalog the long, long list of flaws in the homemade Comcast software that Comcast forces users to endure on the Motorola DCT 6412 DVR.)

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