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Hi Tiphanee, you're quite right, S1E1 of The Suspect was shown last night, and recorded correctly. for me Sorry for the mistake!

Thanks, Tiphanee, I didn't think to check that S1E1 had already been recorded.

I'll check and get back to you.

The Suspect, 'Series 1, Episode 1', ABC TV HD, 11:05pm, Sun, 7 Apr
and its simulcast on ABC TV is marked as a repeat. The episodes S1E2-S1E5 that follow directly after it are correctly (I think) marked as first run.

Strangely, the ABC Web EPG shows all 5 episodes as repeats (on both channels).

Sorry I didn't raise this earlier, I only just noticed it.

EDIT: ACT IceTV region

We're a small company and everyone does their best but there are only 24 hours in a day, and this issue is far down our priority list.  It has no effect on the enjoyment of our services and their consumption of recorded free to air TV.

I appreciate that, but the problem with mangled UTF-8 encoding goes back literally years.

Its to do wth the show title being part of the url & therefore the % somehow corrupts it

That would only be if the % was not properly encoded in the URL. "The-1%-Club-UK" (as it might appear in a URL path component in, say, an entry in "My Shows") would properly be encoded as "The-1%25-Club-UK". That encoding should be done by the code that generates the HTML.

It's not the only issue with encoding of characters in IceTV. The encoding of text characters outside the ASCII range has long been broken in both the HTML and in the JSON data sent in the "new" IceTV API (e.g. for the "newer" Beyonwiz devices). That seems to have been "fixed" recently by avoiding those characters. For example, in The Wall, the lead character's name, Céline, is transliterated to Celine, avoiding, but not addressing, the problem.

% is a html code & causes web errors

% is a special character in URLs, and must be encoded in them as %25. It is not a special character in HTML text, though it does also have a character entity that represents it, %.

The characters that must be represented as character entities in HTML are &, <, >, ' and ". They can be represented in HTML by &amp;, &lt;, &gt;, &apos; and &quot; respectively.

I don't know why % is problematic in IceTV titles, but it's not because it's special in HTML text.

In capital cities 10 HD has two (logical) channels, 1 and 15.

I believe that that's the case in all state capitals except Hobart, plus Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast in Queensland.

It's not the case in Canberra and Hobart, where 10 HD is on channel 50, and 10 is on channels 5 and 51, and in Darwin where 10 HD is on channel 10, and 10 is on channels 1 and 11.

[Fishing Forever is] not on the website though

It is for me (ACT region), at least now. It's showing as first episode on 17 Mar.

All good now. Thanks, Lisa.

The Blacklist 'The Whaler' 7flix on Prime, 11:30pm, Sun, 10 Mar

This is S10E2 of The Blacklist, but AFAIK, all episodes of The Blacklist have been shown on Australian FTA, so surely this is a repeat.

Thanks, Daniel.

In  case the IceFolk haven't already noticed, the certificate for *.icetv.com.au expired yesterday (2 Mar 2024).

Validity
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Not After Sat, 02 Mar 2024 23:59:59 GMT

The short movie is in IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4564506/?ref_=fn_al_tt_4

The IMDb storyline is:

Bluey is a powerful portrayal of an angry young girl who is trapped in a violent world of inner and outer turmoil. She desperately wants to break out of this cycle, but doesn't know how. One day she meets a mystery mentor and for the firs time, Bluey plunges into the depths of her own existence. Bluey is a story about courage, survival and heart.

Australian, from 2015.

Hi, Lisa. Thanks for checking it for me. It was marked as a repeat in the ACT IceGuide this morning, but it's now showing as first run, so all good for me for when it shows.

Whitstable Pearl, 'The Offer' 9Gem, 9:40pm, Mon, 4 Mar

Is marked as a repeat. I don't think it is.