I'm using the Apple TV app. When recordings are relatively new, on the screen before you start the episode it usually shows the program name, recording date, and recording time. However after the show ages and it's been some number of weeks, the recording date and time disappears from this pre-show screen. Is that a bug? Why is that happening? If you have a lot of recordings of the same show it makes it hard to find one from a specific date and time. The mpg files have the date and time as part of the file name, so the program always knows this, it just stops displaying it for some reason.
Different views in the app show more detailed info than others.
Without knowing what sections or views in the app you’re looking at, there isn’t much of a response we can provide to your questions.
Screenshots or more details about where in the app you’re talking about would help.
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Thanks for the quick reply. Here's the current demarcation line 9-2 at 1pm - shows the time on this pre-show screen. If I go back to the 9-2 12PM recording, the time is gone and that's the case for every recording earlier than the point it stops showing it. This line moves as more recordings are added. By tomorrow all the 9-2 recordings will not show times on the pre-show screen.
Sorry, I had to split this up because it wouldn't let me post two pics in the same post.
I think it might have to do with the change from "Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, etc to showing a date instead. When the date starts being shown it loses displaying the time.
Also, side point, is there a way to REMOVE the "START FROM BEGINNING" Prompt? It's infuriating to be jumping ahead 30 seconds at a time in a recording and have that pop up and get pressed accidentally, which takes you back to the start of the hours. There should at the very least be a delay after the last button press of say 30 seconds before it offers that option. It shouldn't insert itself while you're actively jumping forward 30 seconds at a time.
Thanks again for your help.
for older recordings, we don't show the time, as it doesn't seem to be as relevant as it is when it's newer. It's in the archive, and we just show the date of the episode. Showing what time something aired, 4 months later, is just sort of noisy.
The Start from the Beginning option is a setting. You can adjust the resume setting in Settings > Playback > Resume. There are multiple options.
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It would be nice to have a "noisy" option in the settings, then, so the time is always displayed on that screen with the date. I realize that I'm essentially load testing this app outside the intended use, but I'm recording 4 channels of big brother live feeds 24/7 (over 1000 episodes on each of 4 channels so far since July), so having those times are very important to find stuff again in a circumstance where someone knows when something happened 2 or 3 weeks ago. When the times are missing the only way to reliably do it is to find the day transition then count off the hours as you tick past episodes recording by recording. It's very tedious and could be fixed easily by allowing a "noisy" option in setup. The "noisy" option on could also show the time on the scroll-by episode screen as pictured below with an example.
Also, a "quick jump" by weeks on that screen above would be tremendously helpful when trying to go through this number of recordings. So, for example, instead of swiping left or right you could hold the "+ or -" button (which are unassigned on the screen with the episodes running across the bottom) and THEN swipe with the + or - held down to have it scroll through the episodes a week at a time. Would make that much better when you are working with a crazy flashback system like I've got here. 
Thanks for the tip on turning off the "start from beginning" button. Done.