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Problems since the channel change
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Since the retune last week I have found the following
problems with my 9200T :-
1) BBC4 & 3 epg does not populate if I leave it on BBC 1. If I switch to these channels then the epg populates.
2) On two occasions a scheduled recording on BBC1 failed to start, The 1st was an episode of Criminal Justice last week and the other was (far more serious for me) Strictly on Sat 10th
I did a complete manual tune when the reallocation occurred and I have a single blank 800 channel. I use series link.
Anyone else found these problems
problems with my 9200T :-
1) BBC4 & 3 epg does not populate if I leave it on BBC 1. If I switch to these channels then the epg populates.
2) On two occasions a scheduled recording on BBC1 failed to start, The 1st was an episode of Criminal Justice last week and the other was (far more serious for me) Strictly on Sat 10th
I did a complete manual tune when the reallocation occurred and I have a single blank 800 channel. I use series link.
Anyone else found these problems
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1) EPG of BBC3 and BBC4 populates ok from BBC1 - I just tried this from standby.
2) My 9200t recorded *all* episodes of Criminal Justice last week, but missed a few seconds at the start every time!
You are probably receiving from more than one transmitter and you need to do a manual tune to resolve the problem. A quick search of the forum should turn up plenty of instructions.
Colin
I don't know about you,but I find if I leave the channel I wish to record from on the hummy before switching to standby I don't get as many missed bits as I did before, the only problem is if I want to record two progs at once from different MUX's
This is exactly my experience. I found the missed starts were worse when the pvr was switched off when tuned to slow epg loading channels such as Virgin. I now try to always leave the pvr tuned to either the target channel or BBC1, and very rarely lose a start.
Possibly coincidence, who knows?:)
Colin
Conversely, I have never recorded anything with the unit fully switched on. I have never experienced late starts of anything like 60 seconds, 10 to 15 secs at the very most, usually just into the titles. I never miss ends either, but there again I very rarely set possibly overlapping reservations
There are so many variables involved that it is not surprising that our experiences differ. Favourably, in my case.:)
Colin
If alternative broadcasts are recorded when you would not normally be watching TV then that leaves the PVR's tuners free to watch what ever you want and allow for some adhoc recording.
Please don't take my comments as a challenge to your exhaustive series of tests.:) They are simply comments.
Out of interest, I have now remembered that I do record one programme while the box is out of standby, this being the second Corrie on Monday and Friday. I found that I invariably missed the openings of these two episodes, as the box seemed to start recording at the scheduled time rather than the actual start. As these episodes nearly always start early, the first bit was nearly always missing. I get round this by manually setting the box to record from 20:29 and over the last nine months or so, have always caught the start, usually as the sponsors jingle is ending.
Losing series link is no problem as the other episodes are watched live.
I hope this adds to the jigsaw.:)
Maybe I should have made it clear that typically the programmes we are "watching" are recordings made the same evening and "viewed" soon after completion or before they have finished using Chase Play. We (or at least I) very rarely watch Live TV. We (collectively) watch about 4 hours of scheduled time programmes in about a 3 hour period so virtually all the time we are viewing we are also recording, so no opportunity for using standby recording.
Colin
Are you just selectively setting isolated recordings manually and otherwise have all recordings set the "On Time" in the Record menu? Excuse me mentioning it but you do realise that the late starts discussed above only applies to recordings set in this mode i.e. with Accurate Recording enabled?
Colin
I record everything "On Time" with the single exception detailed above, which is set manually because of repeated late starts when "On Time" was used.
The 'upto' is supposed to indicate 'very occasionally' ...
I'd like to avoid this futile debate every time I make that comment. (Ooops my mistake, I don't mean "every" time I make the comment, just nearly every time
Colin
I agree Colin need only explain once the meaning of his concise phrase, it does cover the results observed.
Rgds.
Les.
I understand exactly what Creddish means, having digested his experimental results, but I can see that 'up to one minute'. although accurate, can give a misleading impression.
What's wrong with 'A delay can occur, occasionally up to one minute'.
This sentence establishes both facts clearly to my mind, but to others, more devious than I, who knows?:)
I usually record from stand-by and when I bring the box out of stand-by it is always tuned to the last channel recorded. I've been presuming that **if** it chooses the last tuned channel to check the EITp/f data then this will change when the next stand-by recording takes place. As that was just an assumption of mine, I think I'll try tuning it to always tuning it to MUX 1 before I put it in stand-by a see if I can tell the difference. I’m choosing MUX 1 because the Humax handles the EPG Schedule from that MUX better than the others so I’m guessing that EITp/f from MUX 1 woulld also be to the Humax's liking.
Only problem is that I don't particularly have an issue with late starts from stand-by and so I may not notice any difference! Perhaps I should instead be tuning to MUX A to find out how bad I can make it.
Colin
I record programmes and then later decide what has the highest priority for the time/situation from a selection of unwatched but recorded programmes. I find that doing that "maximises my programme viewing content".
What I was suprised at were how low the BARB 2008 figures for non-Live TV watching are as reported in Ofcom's Communication Market Report 2009 http://www.ofcom.org.uk/research/cm/cmr09/CMRMain_1.pdf
The subject of the sentence is 'A delay'
The sentence states 1 This can occur. 2 It may occasionally be up to one minute.
How can that be mis-interpreted?
Maybe wgmorg is right!
[/QUOTE] That would not have the true intent of the phrase used...
The subject of the sentence is 'A delay'
The sentence states 1 It can occur. 2 It may occasionally be up to one minute.
How can that be mis-interpreted?
Maybe wgmorg is right!
[/QUOTE] That would not have the true intent of the phrase used... [/QUOTE]