[mythtv-users] Duplicate recordings because of bad SD data?

Robert Eden rmeden at yahoo.com
Thu Jul 22 16:32:39 UTC 2010


On 7/21/2010 6:53 PM, MarcT wrote:
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>  Robert how about the show that initiated this whole conversation?
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> Title
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> Subtitle
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> Program ID
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> Original Airdate
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> Airdate
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> Channel
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> Warehouse 13
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> Beyond Our Control
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> EP011598480017
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> 7/20/2010
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> Tue Jul 20, 2010 (09:00 PM)
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> 862 - Syfy HD
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> Warehouse 13
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> Beyond Our Control
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> EP011598480015
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> 7/20/2010
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> Wed Jul 21, 2010 (03:00 PM)
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> 862 - Syfy HD
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> MarcT
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I got a response from Tribune:
> The original episode was created as a standard without the 
> season/episode information.  Once we obtained that, editorial did not 
> realize there was already an episode present and created a new one 
> with the season/episode info.  The bad episode is being removed from 
> our database today.
See simple... it really comes down to how complicated Tribune's job is 
because content providers don't always provide accurate info.

There have been threads about this in the past, but when we looked into 
a listing solution that turned into SD, we were shocked at how 
needlessly complicated the whole TV listing business is.  Content 
providers and stations have the power to fix it, but simply aren't 
interested.  TMS and Rovi make good money because of it :)

Feel free to contact SD to report issues like this.  Please try and do 
some vetting to prevent false positives.  If you want to automate things 
(like scanning CC listings, and alerting for a 90%+ hit) contact me and 
I can facilitate automatic reporting.  TMS has shown support for 
anything that improves the quality of their data.

Speaking of data quality, if you guys haven't noticed, there have been 
significant improvements to "The Daily Show" listings over the past 
year.  It is much, much better and that's due to hard work, automated 
tools,  and cooperation between TMS and SD. (if you don't mind me 
tooting my own horn, and if you do.. @$%@!$#  :) )

Robert
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