On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 11:29:26 -0600, "Gig Giacona"
wrote:
Did you notice how they changed the name of the show from Enterprise to Star
Trek: Enterprise? Almost made my TIVO miss an episode.


Yes, there was an *extended* discussion on this topic on
www.tivocommunity.com.

Basically:

UPN started out with keeping the same show ID (X) but changing the
name to ST: Enterprise. TiVo, Inc, knew about this, and notified
people about the name change, but did not know if UPN would change the
ID. They did not initially. So the TiVo did not care, because thnigs
internally are tracked by show ID, not by name. The ID presumably
comes from Tribune in one form or another, but the intricacies of
*that* database I wish to inflict on no person. Then UPN decided to
change the show ID, which DID screw up all the season passes. And
then then UPN switched back to the original show ID in the end. And I
also believe that the show ID change back and forth all happened in
the space of a week so that depending on when your guide data got
updated and processed and if you could get the 2nd run that some UPN
stations show you wouldn't have a problem.

Regardless, it was all a big mess, but hopefully it was instructive to
UPN to show them that now there are appliances and other devices
acting directly on the guide data and more stringent care must be
taken with it.

aw