Supposedly, TiVo's no-save restriction is not in use, and last week's incidents of it showing up in Fox programs were accidental. The restriction is still being applied to shows, though.
Last week, reports surfaced that TiVo had enabled a restriction that allows broadcasters to delete shows from your hard-drive after a set period. TiVo claimed that the programs that came with this flag set were the result of "noise," which accidentally triggered the restriction (something experts dispute). TiVo says that the restriction is only meant to be applied to pay-per-view and other premium material.
However, yesterday Aaron Hurley discovered that this restriction was being applied to a documentary on Turner Classic Movies — the kind of filler that is hard to credit as "premium" programming.
Perhaps there's more of that pesky "noise" creeping into the TiVo signals.
(Thanks, Aaron!)
