Here in the UK one of my favourite shows, The Apprentice returned last Wednesday. It's shown on BBC1 on Wednesday with a repeat on BBC2 the following Tuesday.<br><br>In the early hours of saturday morning I had finished setting up my "proof-of-concept" MythTV box. Even though it's an old machine with not much disk or memory it was surprisingly useable. Kudos to the developers. :)
<br><br>One of the first things I did was set up a recording for The Apprentice with the "Record one showing of this per week" option. When I checked the "upcoming recordings" list, it showed that the Tues showings were the ones that were going to get recorded. I guess that makes sense since the first ep in the EPG would be the Tues repeat showing of ep1. However I don't want to wait a week to have the next ep available so I highlighted the ep 2 Wed showing (marked "L") and put an override on it to record anyway. I looked at this again last night after the repeat of ep1 and thought maybe I could "fix" it. So I highlighted all episodes showing as due to be recorded and marked them as "do not record" and then highlighted the Wed ep2 and choose the find 1 weekly option again. However it seems to have remembered the earlier setting and marked the Wed showings as "L" and the Tues ones as the ones to record. So instead I highlighted the Wed ones and choose "Record every week at this timeslot". In effect that does what I want, except I believe (perhap incorrectly?) that if the Wed recording fails for any reason the "find 1 weekly" would record the Tues repeat whereas "record this timeslot" isn't going to do that.
<br><br>So I have two questions:<br><br>1) Is it possible to "re-set" the recording options in such a way that it's going to set up the "find 1 weekly" with the Wed rather than Tue ep as the first one recorded?
<br><br>2) Is my understanding about the way "find 1 weekly" works correct? Will it act as a "safety net" if the first recording fails (box is switch off etc)?<br><br>Thanks<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Paul Mason