If you like these shows and have deleted the season passes during their haitus, they are going to be showing new Christmas episodes on Friday, November 25 (Monk) and Sunday, November 27 (Dead Zone).

Yea! Meesa love Monk (I miss Sharona) and Dead Zone!

Why would you delete the season passes? That's the whole point, to have them catch things like this, and whenever the new season starts, they show up on Now Playing.

Some people like to keep their SP List "tidy", and others want to avoid spurious recordings of reruns (as we all know FRO isn't perfect). Also, if you use a lot of auto-record Wishlists, they can slow things down in the menus.

Personally I'm with you, though; why go to the trouble of deleting them all and having to redo them later? (I guess that's why I never make my bed either ) Plus the chance of forgetting to set up a particular show again...

And, you'd miss these Holiday episodes. The beauty of SP's is that you put them in and forget them.

Menu slowdown, and the once-in-a-while repeat, is far preferable to missing a show (to me).

I keep all my SPs in place unless I just dont want it to record the show anymore. Even shows I know Ive seen all of just for kicks. Nice when it catches something you didnt realize was on. Like DZ or Monk

USA has pushed back the air dates of both of these specials by one week.

I agree. Why delete your SP's during a hiatus? I keep all of my SP's active during "off seasons" and then, when the new episodes roll around, TiVo works its magic! That's one of the things I really love about TiVo. Set it and forget it.

The HR10-250 gets slower the more Season Passes you have - painfully slower. So on mine I delete them after each season of shows and put new ones in when the time comes. I know I can count on seeing notices here or the flashes they put up during other shows.

I delete them because they start trying to record old repeat episodes. I read forums like this one so I know to set my SP again when the show comes back on.

I had Farscape on Season Pass for over a year after they canceled it. I just could not bring myself to delete it.

Not if you say first run only. I have them set up, and virtually never get a repeat (none that I can recall).

That's sort of the whole point.

Me too! It's like I couldn't acknowledge it was cancelled...

Ditto

Actually, it's more about the thumbs up/down. You create a thumbs rating each time you add a season pass, so it's easily confused.

You can go in and clear the thumbs ratings only, and you'll have improved speed and still keep all your season passes.

Not that lots of season passes don't slow it down some, but I keep 70-80 on mine, and just clear the thumbs, and it's as fast as it was with no season passes.

Same here. I have them for new episodes only, and because of bad quide data, my DVR is picking up several episodes of Dead Zone lately..wth?

Cant wait to see if this is true on my machines

I have DirecTV, and almost never get a repeat. If you're standalone (which you must be), I guess the guide data is worse? Strange.

I have directv. There was a couple episodes to tape this next week (I think they were in the middle of some night). When I pulled up the episode to read the description, it just describes the show generically, i.e., something like, Man becomes psycic after being in a coma, blah blah. No other specific information. I have this show set up for new episodes only, so I have no idea what is going on.

If there's no guide data, TiVo assumes that it's a new episode, just in case. That's what the majority of these unwanted repeat recordings turn out to be...

Please talk more about the effect of the thumbs rating on speed. I don't do suggestions. What is it slowing down? If it benefits me, I'll certainly go through the effort of changing all the thumbs ratings!

It's usually because the guide data is generic. My DZ SP (first-run only) picked up a couple of DZ eps coming up in the next week or so because, if you look at the ep description, it's just a vague summary of the series. Nothing specific about that ep (as mentioned in post above). That's almost always the reason. And it does happen very rarely.

You bet. I still have my SP set up for "Barney Miller"

I can't say for sure why it's slower (since I didn't write the code), but probably because any time you look at a show, it has to look up the thumbs rating, and the more there are, the harder it is.

But I can say (as can many others) that if you delete all thumbs settings, the speed will increase, even with tons of season passes. Any time you record a new show, it creates a new thumb setting, so you'll need to do this periodically.

This won't do anything to help failing hard drives, but it does increase the speed for browsing and new recordings.

Is there a quick way to "delete all thumbs settings" or do I have to go into each show one by one?

Find your way into the setup menu .. there is a Clear all Thumbs Data option.

Is this true with Directv tivo? I could not find this anywhere in my menus???

did you try the restart menu? Bottom of the page, last choice I think after you press tivo

Yes it's true. Try harder - reset or restart system, etc.