Tivo V6 Is there a max of 1,000 series links? - Page 3

OLD BOY · 25-08-2017, 21:35

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Originally Posted by ozsat

Why not try and go over 1000??

It may be it is a display limit rather than a physical limit.

Would be interested to know

May be you go through a worm hole to another universe

RichardCoulter · 26-08-2017, 10:22

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY

I really don't know how you manage to watch and listen to so much, Richard.

I have not counted my series links on my previous Tivo box, but I don't think I had accumulated 500 in five years! As you haven't even possessed your current box for a year yet, accruing anything close to 1,000 series links is quite a feat.

Have you contacted the Guinness Book of Records? I'm sure they will be amazed!

However, all I can say in answer to your question is that to the best of my knowledge, there is no limit. However, I am sure that when you pass the 1,000 mark and you have the answer to your own question, you will let us know!

The majority are inactive remnants from Radio 4 short form series as one of the USP's of TiVo is that it will use these to start a new series without any user intervention.

heero_yuy · 26-08-2017, 10:37

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Originally Posted by ozsat

Why not try and go over 1000??

It may be it is a display limit rather than a physical limit.

Would be interested to know

If the links are stored on the HDD I suspect the limit would be 32,767. Can't see the programmer using more than an int (Signed 16 bit) to number them.

spiderplant · 26-08-2017, 13:04

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Originally Posted by heero_yuy

If the links are stored on the HDD I suspect the limit would be 32,767. Can't see the programmer using more than an int (Signed 16 bit) to number them.

I'd hope they'd use an unsigned 32-bit integer for anything like that. It's a 32-bit processor, and you can't have a negative number of series links. Using a signed integer to hold a count is just asking for bugs.

heero_yuy · 26-08-2017, 13:19

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Originally Posted by spiderplant

I'd hope they'd use an unsigned 32-bit integer for anything like that. It's a 32-bit processor, and you can't have a negative number of series links. Using a signed integer to hold a count is just asking for bugs.

Mind you they did use a signed number in the SH to count the RS errors.

RichardCoulter · 27-08-2017, 21:24

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Originally Posted by ozsat

Why not try and go over 1000??

It may be it is a display limit rather than a physical limit.

Would be interested to know

Did some experimenting today.

It appears that you can go over 1,000 series links, but, this causes a problem as after number 999 the last one is labelled as 100 and no more are displayed.

This means that any series links after 1,000 are unmanageable ie if you add more they are not displayed and therefore cannot be deleted, prioritised etc.

So the answer seems to be that you can add more, but unless some are deleted you aren't able to, say, prioritise a new series that you particularly want to see.

I'm going to have to decide whether to delete some series that I don't think will ever return or that I'm not too bothered about (and as has been mentioned this will have the advantage that the V6 won't be wasting resources checking the dead links) or just carry on as normal and hope that the 6 tuners will mean that no programmes fail to record because I can't prioritise them.

I'll probably just carry on as I have been as it will save the laborious task of manually deleting stuff and returning series will be recorded automatically.

Regularly checking Planned Recordings should deal with any clashes (which I do anyway).

Whilst I have more than the norm for an average user, I think that this problem will eventually affect more people with the passage of time (particularly in larger households) as I doubt most people bother to cancel a SL when a series has ended.

Out of interest, do those with hardly any series links routinely cancel their SL's or is it simply because you don't use the feature very much?

Sirius · 28-08-2017, 19:41

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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

Out of interest, do those with hardly any series links routinely cancel their SL's or is it simply because you don't use the feature very much?

I cancel and remove them once they have done there job, i have 20 at the moment. V6 box btw

RichardCoulter · 28-08-2017, 20:15

Interesting. Up until now I've always left them as one of the USP's of TiVo is that it will automatically pick up when a new series starts.

In the light of this 1,000 thing I may have to follow suit!

ozsat · 29-08-2017, 17:20

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY

May be you go through a worm hole to another universe

OLD BOY · 30-08-2017, 08:47

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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

Interesting. Up until now I've always left them as one of the USP's of TiVo is that it will automatically pick up when a new series starts.

In the light of this 1,000 thing I may have to follow suit!

I think for normal usage you can just leave them. I think the way you use your box is unusual and if I were you, I would now take out all the links which you are unlikely to need in the future.