Let's do an experiment, so we can hopefully all get on the same page about whether the episode thing I was writing about on July 24 will fix the first run vs repeat problem.

edcba, pick one series which you have had trouble with (I'm assuming your issue is with a season pass where you end up getting multiple recordings with the same content on them, if not, let us know) and a region (a capital city or large regional town from which TV is broadcast). Then I will manually update episode info for that series in that region for a week, and you check whether you still have the problem in that week and report back to us.