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Apr. 4th, 2013 05:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenayThis morning my Annie-cat squeezed herself into her smallest cardboard box, the one that doesn't fit her in any way, and looked up at me with her most pathetic expression. The expression of mourning and heartbreak for the whole world's ills. She didn't make any attempt to jump up for her usual cuddle while I drank my coffee, she just looked sad and abandoned at me.
Cat, I know that feel.
I'm never going to get the hang of Thursdays.
So, you know how yesterday I was going to check my PVR settings for Arrow because I was concerned that I didn't have many backlogged episodes?
Yeah.
Turns out, my PVR deleted the series recording info. I've discovered this issue with a couple of other things over the last couple of months (most notably with Doctor Who, which is what started the fuck up that led to DW not recording on Saturday) and I thought that I was deleting the setting myself and not remembering. Because sometimes I do that in a fit of exhaustion-induced weirdness.
Nope. The last episode of Arrow that recorded was from while I was in England. The next episode, which also aired while I was away, didn't record. So the setting got erased while I wasn't there to erase it.
*headdesk*
It's not even that it's losing the setting if the show isn't on for a week or two - it still has the Tour de France settings even though the TdF aired in July. It's just regularly deleting all the most recent series settings. What the hell?
Between my PVR and CTV's somewhat random approach to airing it and updating the EPG, Arrow has been a difficult thing to watch. On the up side, the fact that I keep resetting things and hunting down methods to watch missed episodes does demonstrate that it's a winner for me because I would have given up on a lot of shows by now if the same thing happened to them. It's just...I'd like to not have to keep resting things and hunting down missed episodes.
Curse you, PVR and CTV, you're making me very irritated right now.
Does anyone know whether the MTV that I receive in Canada is the same one that shows in the States? Uh, I need this information for reasons.
After all, the Disney XD that airs up here isn't the same one as airs in the States and thus, I don't get to watch Ultimate Spider-man (legally). We also got a DVD that's 'selected episodes' from season one rather than, you know, the whole of season one. Seriously, what is up with this?
*sigh*
Cat, I know that feel.
I'm never going to get the hang of Thursdays.
So, you know how yesterday I was going to check my PVR settings for Arrow because I was concerned that I didn't have many backlogged episodes?
Yeah.
Turns out, my PVR deleted the series recording info. I've discovered this issue with a couple of other things over the last couple of months (most notably with Doctor Who, which is what started the fuck up that led to DW not recording on Saturday) and I thought that I was deleting the setting myself and not remembering. Because sometimes I do that in a fit of exhaustion-induced weirdness.
Nope. The last episode of Arrow that recorded was from while I was in England. The next episode, which also aired while I was away, didn't record. So the setting got erased while I wasn't there to erase it.
*headdesk*
It's not even that it's losing the setting if the show isn't on for a week or two - it still has the Tour de France settings even though the TdF aired in July. It's just regularly deleting all the most recent series settings. What the hell?
Between my PVR and CTV's somewhat random approach to airing it and updating the EPG, Arrow has been a difficult thing to watch. On the up side, the fact that I keep resetting things and hunting down methods to watch missed episodes does demonstrate that it's a winner for me because I would have given up on a lot of shows by now if the same thing happened to them. It's just...I'd like to not have to keep resting things and hunting down missed episodes.
Curse you, PVR and CTV, you're making me very irritated right now.
Does anyone know whether the MTV that I receive in Canada is the same one that shows in the States? Uh, I need this information for reasons.
After all, the Disney XD that airs up here isn't the same one as airs in the States and thus, I don't get to watch Ultimate Spider-man (legally). We also got a DVD that's 'selected episodes' from season one rather than, you know, the whole of season one. Seriously, what is up with this?
*sigh*
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Date: 2013-04-05 01:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-04-05 01:36 am (UTC)I have no idea either. But I don't trust we won't have different versions. This is entirely about Teen Wolf *headdesk*
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Date: 2013-04-05 01:44 am (UTC)i figured.
and you are probably right not to trust. we were seasons off when i lived in nz. but i know some of what canada is seeing on cable is the same as what the usa sees on cable, i just don't know which bits. i suspected it was more the basic cable (which mtv is part of) was the same and the select cable channels that one pays extra for in the states (hbo, disney and the like) was different. but i'm just making it up.
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Date: 2013-04-05 08:04 pm (UTC)Our system is a weird mix of some of the channels from the States, some of the programmes from those channels repackaged onto Canadian channels and a bunch of other Canadian-specific stuff. Apparently our MTV is a completely different animal from the one in the States so I really have no idea what will happen there for Teen Wolf. Our MTV does show Arrow, though, and it's marginally more consistent than CTV's broadcast (repackaged from CW) in that it doesn't change stations, times, and days and the electronic programme guide for MTV actually gets tagged with the right info so my PVR can record from it. But it shows Arrow, which isn't on MTV in the States, so all I can do is make flaily hands and try to work out what airs where nearer the time. I was doing research last night on this issue, as you can possibly tell :-D
Oh, Canadian broadcasters, why must you make watching teevees so difficult sometimes?