Loving the Search feature with one touch recording

bonscott87 said:

Anyway, just do some research.

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I don't have to do any research. I've been using tivo wishlists for many years to record all the games of my 9 local teams, and they've worked very well indeed. Once set up properly (you must have your Red Wings WL set to record All programs...set it for First run and repeats to eliminate the 3am and 11am repeats), they require only occasional monitoring of the todo list to ensure that the occasional blackout games are correctly set, but that's easily accomplished. Off the top of my head, lets say for the last year's time, I can't recall even one game which has failed to record properly. That's 162*2 + 82*5 + 16*2 = 766 games. All on one stock r10. (BTW, lest anyone think I'm crazy, out of all those games, I probably only actually watched a couple of full games. Mostly I like to have the game available to check out the highlights later, if I so desire. Pretty much a perfect use for a dvr, if you ask me.) On the HD side, one one of my hr10s, I have WLs for all the teams with "HDTV" as one of the search terms. I don't auto-record these, as the box is devoted to network series SPs, and the HD games have been less frequent, so I manually set the games I want when I do a wishlist "view all upcoming programs". Except for the two football teams, which I do record on the hr10, since almost all their games are in HD. These two ARWLs have also performed flawlessly for at least a couple of seasons.

As far as multiple threads all the time over at TCF about WL problems, I just don't see it. Most problems discussed are just flat out user error, or the problem with blackouts which, as you correctly point out, can happen, but are minimized by occasionally checking the todo list.

axiom said:

Glad it works for the Red Wings. It hasn't for the Dallas Stars. Between recording the wrong channel and blackouts, I'd say it missed recording about 10%-15% of the games I wanted using a "properly" set up ARWL on my HR10-250.

Only manually updating the to do list makes sure I'd get all the games.

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I did mention that you need to occasionally monitor, and correct, the todo list for blackout situations. I have not ever said, nor would I, that ARWLs would record a team's games with 100% accuracy if left alone and not occasionally monitored. If that is your expectation, then yes, you will end up disappointed. If your expectation is to have your teams games automatically scheduled, understanding that occasional adjustments will be necessary due to D*'s guide data, then WLs can work very well. That's my whole point. I believe that to state "Wishlists don't work well for sports either on a Tivo" is erroneous. As I noted above, they have worked very well for me for years.

BTW, in other threads we are discussing the way D* formats their guide data for sports events. This whole discussion would be moot if they would format the data so that you could use the Series Link (or Season Pass) feature to record sports teams. Then there would be even less need for any todo list monitoring or changing.