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unhappybunny
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Im rather cross....
Every week I like to watch Songs of Praise, usually broadcast every Sunday in HD on BBC One HD.
The time often changes, but as I am rarely home when it is on that doesn't matter, as it is left to my Sky Plus (which records regardless of the time as it is on- thanks to series link).
However, recently, I.E today because of Golf and a few weeks ago during Wimbledon, they have shifted it onto BBC Two.
This means my SkyPlus doesn't record it, as it doesn't recognise the channel change. And also means that I don't get to see it in HD. This is so annoying.
The Golf is the non-regular program (i.e. a one off) so surely that should be on BBC Two, so the regular SOP appears on its usual channel in HD and the SkyPlus recordings are not interrupted. Its quite a disgrace !!!
Every week I like to watch Songs of Praise, usually broadcast every Sunday in HD on BBC One HD.
The time often changes, but as I am rarely home when it is on that doesn't matter, as it is left to my Sky Plus (which records regardless of the time as it is on- thanks to series link).
However, recently, I.E today because of Golf and a few weeks ago during Wimbledon, they have shifted it onto BBC Two.
This means my SkyPlus doesn't record it, as it doesn't recognise the channel change. And also means that I don't get to see it in HD. This is so annoying.
The Golf is the non-regular program (i.e. a one off) so surely that should be on BBC Two, so the regular SOP appears on its usual channel in HD and the SkyPlus recordings are not interrupted. Its quite a disgrace !!!
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Wow what a nice reply... the idea of Series Link is you don't have to "check and set your timers".
Imagine if I had to "check and set my timers" every day for EVERY item in my series link !!! It would completely defeat the object of series link !!!
and I'm going to assume they are at home now so could watch it anyway if not there is BBC iPlayer. I don't think Songs of Praise is in HD anyway, if it was it would be on BBC HD.
Maybe post in the Sky+ Forums, someone else might have encountered the same issue.
On the broadcasting issue I think it's fair for the final day of The Open to be on BBC One HD and i'm no golf fan.
I suspect more people will watch it than Songs of Praise.
Log in to MySky and 'remote record' it.
It is in HD, and it is on BBC One HD only not BBC HD
Partly the problem this week for HD viewers who have it series linked, is that there is no HD showing to series link to!!
Then stop relying on a piece of crap like the Sky-
So a Tivo will record the SD version if the HD one isn't shown at all?
But the HD version didn't change channels, it wasn't shown at all.
Yes they do.
However, a series link set up on the HD channels has a different series and programme identifier than the SD versions. If the OP had set a series link on the SD BBC One broadcast the change of channel would have been picked up. The fact the series link was set up on the HD channel, which then did not show the broadcast, meant the recorder had no alternative to pick up as it wasn't shown on any other HD channel. The BBC (and other broadcasters) cannot use the same identifiers on both the SD and HD channels as that would confuse a PVR and it would record both showings at the same time.
Just to clarify, Songs of Praise in in HD. This week it was only shown in SD on BBC Two, but not on BBC HD as they were showing their normal children's programmes.
Doesn't the VM TiVo have a "First run & repeats" option for the season pass like the original one?
So to clarify. A Tivo set up to record the HD version on BBC One HD, would automatically switch to the SD version on BBC Two and the week after go back to the HD version on BBC One HD?
Whereas Sky+ set to record the SD version on BBC One would have recorded the SD version on BBC Two and gone back to BBC One next week.
A Sky+HD would only record HD versions, as shown, and would have missed this week's as it wasn't broadcast.
With a Wishlist, yes. Series Links are channel-specific.
No it wouldn't as it will (okay, should) only ever record one "version" of any given programme.
What - deleting a recording every now and then? It's not much effort, and machines aren't sentient.... yet.