[TatumsMom]

Anyone here an expert with their DVR? If I understand it all right, when our TIVO went kaput a few months ago, they (DirecTV) sent a new one that I believe they called a DVR instead of a TIVO. It is slightly different - the menus, search, etc. Well, I have all my regular shows (Law & Order, CSI) set up to "record the series" (only first runs) and this stupid DVR did not recognize Monday's OR Tuesdays shows as "first runs". It wasn't planning on recording them (you can see on your "list" what's scheduled to record). I checked just to make sure it was going to record and when I saw that they weren't scheduled, I manually recorded them. Does any of this make sense? I also don't know what the "prioritizer" is any good for. Why would you need that? If you try to set something to record and two other things are already scheduled, it will ask you which one you want to cancel. So why would you need the prioritizer? For kicks, I even tried moving all the L&O and CSI shows up in the "prioritizer" and that didn't even make them schedule. What am I doing wrong?? This is very frustrating because I never watch any of the shows "real time"..... I schedule everything to record so I can watch later w/out commercials. This is really boggling my mind..... I thought I had this stupid piece of machinery conquered and now it's outwitted me!