I suddenly realised why I have been having issues with pixellated/glitchy recordings and clashes (after having had to delete all my recordings and factory-reset the Box Pro).
It doesn't differentiate between later recordings I chose in order not to clash, and the ones I've already seen now put out on repeat. There should be a status in series flag (this has been seen up to this episode, keep all eps or discard those already watched). Instead, on Thursdays I avoid The Midwich Cuckoos on Sky in order to record Jonathan Creek on Drama, knowing I can pick up The Midwich Cuckoos on Sky Max at the weekend. But when I then set The Midwich Cuckoos on Sky Max to record at the weekend, it then resets it to record the episodes on Thursday when I'm trying to avoid clashes. Sometimes I want the ability the Box Pro has to chase up "repeat from start" eps for a series even when the episodes are tucked in a random late slot. But most of the time I want the ability to pick up a series on the late-night repeats so I don't have to worry about programme clashes--but then I find that the programme I carefully set at the weekend is also popping up at the 9pm slot and clashing with the Freeview programme I chose for peak-time.
What people actually want is to a) avoid recording repeats if they've already seen them, b) know where they've got to in the storyline, and c) know that they can record new series at unsociable hours without having peak-time clashes. It would be pretty good to have an "archive" folder for locked files as well.
I think what would work is an option for "record series always" set against "record series by name + time-slot".
