Guide showing new on reruns

Hi @rickcitgo, one of our awesome Xperts @Rustyben answered this awhile back. Although the show was "Chicago P.D" and not "Chicago Fire", the information provided should still apply:

"it is because the recording is set up 'differnetly' than ideal. the reruns on oxygen are new on that network or not marked as reruns.  when you get a new oxygen recording find it on the recordings list. press right until you see the x and select it. you should see an option to not record future episodes. select that option. then find the next recording by searching for 'chicago PD'. note the date/time/channel.  exit from the search and press guide and navigate to the channel it appears on, then press the right button and or the fast forward button to move to future days, and find the title on the guide. press the record button and set up series recording. Doing the recording this way will cause the call letters of the station to be an option and you will want to leave that alone. select 'new' only."

 

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There are a lot of shows like Expedition Unknown, Ghost Adventures, now Osbournes Want To Believe and others that take 2 old shows and package them together for two hours that are listed as 'new', even though they are reruns. Misleading, and I'm constantly deleting them from my DVR. I have these shows set to record as new only, so not sure what else I can do

Discovery Networks is infamous for often 're-packing' some shows into 'new' shows.

If you can find an upcoming recording on the correct channel, you can go into record options and set it to only record on that channel. The default if you set a series recording from some form of manual or voice search is "HD Preferred", which can cause recordings of syndicated repeats and similar on other networks. The DVR will also record a show if it has no new/repeat flag, as it will assume it is new.