Ian tweeted Friday about a TV show in the UK called Newswipe, unfortunately just a day after the series ended. Now I know that I can catch up on it using TunerFree MCE but I wanted to make sure that I don’t miss it again – it’s funny, but it’s already gone off the air, so it’s not in the guide. So I fired out a tweet asking the community on twitter what I could do.
And it turns out that there’s a simple fix, thanks to @datbasejase and @the_ape for suggesting this. Doing a keyword search it’s still possible to add the show, and next time it comes it on air it’ll be recorded automatically…can a set top box (thinking about a specific popular UK DVR here) do that…no!
Anyway I’ve set it up to record now, and this is how you can too…
How to…
1 Start Media Center and go to Recorded TV then go to Add recording and you’ll get a screen showing different ways to add a recording, select Keyword
2 Next decide how to track the program down, I’m going to use title since I know the title, but you could use this method to record every program containing the keyword “Wine” if you like your wine.
3 Next enter the name of the program that you want to catch, “newswipe” in this case and select the Use: “newswipe” button.
4
Setting the nuances of how exactly the recording will happen is next, including how often to record the show and when to delete it, click Record when done.
5
Finally confirm everything with the Ok button on this screen.
Now, when you catch the last episode of a great series, you can make sure you don’t miss the first episode of the next series.
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This feature is really useful.
I just got 7MC configrued last night and for some reason, Windows 7 doesn’t see all my Padres baseball games as a series. Actually, anything baseball related shows up as MLB Baseball and in the details it shows the teams.
I stumbled on your methods above and, since I always know what channel the games are on, set it to New shows, on 704, with the title MLB.
I don’t think this will dip into the metadata of the details of the show. Maybe ‘General Keyword’ would work? That would be nice should my team turn up instead (as it does on occasion) on a different channel.
Very nice feature. especially if you use it with actors names then it will record anything that actor is in as long as the metadata has it in. Simply brilliant.
Do you know if 7MC is smart enough to know if it has recorded a particular episode or not?
I was thinking the methods you outlined here would be useful if you wanted to get all the shows of an old series that has come around again in reruns. Down side would be if 7MC recorded the same episode again and again.
I don’t think it’s got the smarts you might expect…the way that I use this to catch those programs is to start recording the series when it appears in my recorded items. Since it won’t record the same exact program (i.e. same time, channel) twice then I only get one. I get around the duplicates of the same program thing with an external program, like LifeExtender or DVR-MS toolbox. (although currently I have flakey tuners so actually I’m going for the manual delete option to make sure I get the shows I want).
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This feature is really useful.
I just got 7MC configrued last night and for some reason, Windows 7 doesn’t see all my Padres baseball games as a series. Actually, anything baseball related shows up as MLB Baseball and in the details it shows the teams.
I stumbled on your methods above and, since I always know what channel the games are on, set it to New shows, on 704, with the title MLB.
I don’t think this will dip into the metadata of the details of the show. Maybe ‘General Keyword’ would work? That would be nice should my team turn up instead (as it does on occasion) on a different channel.
Very nice feature. especially if you use it with actors names then it will record anything that actor is in as long as the metadata has it in. Simply brilliant.
Do you know if 7MC is smart enough to know if it has recorded a particular episode or not?
I was thinking the methods you outlined here would be useful if you wanted to get all the shows of an old series that has come around again in reruns. Down side would be if 7MC recorded the same episode again and again.
I don’t think it’s got the smarts you might expect…the way that I use this to catch those programs is to start recording the series when it appears in my recorded items. Since it won’t record the same exact program (i.e. same time, channel) twice then I only get one. I get around the duplicates of the same program thing with an external program, like LifeExtender or DVR-MS toolbox. (although currently I have flakey tuners so actually I’m going for the manual delete option to make sure I get the shows I want).