Horizon missed recording, anyone else ?
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Horizon on BBC2 failed to record for me last night.
Was recording BBC1 as well and watching the footy so it should have displayed a message telling me that i couldnt watch ITV. I totally forgot that 2 programs were supposed to be recording so I didn't realise there was a problem until i checked later.
Horizon just stayed in the schedule without being recorded.
Anyone else have this problem ? or is it just me.
Thats the 2nd program thats failed recently. (just as my lock ups seem to have stopped !!)
Was recording BBC1 as well and watching the footy so it should have displayed a message telling me that i couldnt watch ITV. I totally forgot that 2 programs were supposed to be recording so I didn't realise there was a problem until i checked later.
Horizon just stayed in the schedule without being recorded.
Anyone else have this problem ? or is it just me.
Thats the 2nd program thats failed recently. (just as my lock ups seem to have stopped !!)
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Can you post which BBC region you were recording and which region of BBC 2 you wanted to record. Also were you watching ITV in SD or HD. (If SD what region) ? It's possible that on screen warnings don't work on ITV HD. Anyone had a clash warning while watching ITV HD ?
Perhaps the question is whether anyone did successfully record the programme last night? I'm wondering whether the programme data just wasn't broadcast?
That would explain why the OP did not get a warning message (he had a spare tuner he thought was recording)
This is what's puzzling about my missing films; they have gone from the schedule. If they were still there I would just have assumed a Snafu with the metadata on Film4's part.
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showpost.php?p=30990456&postcount=1061
It was fortunate that I had the screen on at that point ( I was curious to see what happened !) otherwise I would have been none the wiser until later. I thought I had done something wrong, but now maybe not.
It does not use 2 channels when it's actually tuned. Suppose you are recording BBC HD on one tuner and are going to record ITV HD so you tune to 103 just before recording is due to start. When the box is due to switch to ITV HD it warns you in a long message that you have a clash. The clash is that it can't tune ITV HD without taking you off ITV SD, if you do nothing it switches to ITV HD starts the recording and you are left watching ITV HD. If you tune to a different channel say bloomberg TV (which is possible while recording BBC HD and ITV HD) and then back to 103 you will find you are still watching the HD transmission (no red button required)
box was in standby.
It came out of standby at 20:45 as expected.
Recording symbol came on about 21:00, so I thought it was Horizon, but found out later it was recording another show ("Naked"), and had missed Horizon.
It is still in the schedule though.
I can only assume it was a meta-data issue snafu from BBC.
Note that the show is repeated on 7th March, 01:10 (probably with the signing person in the corner though)
Coincidence ? I blame the Americans.
I also have an Oz And James Drink To Britain sitting in the schedule from 24-02 although it has recorded.
yes you should as it was the final episode it won't progress any further ie. to next weeks slot
Does that mean its nothing to do with the box and its actually something to do with freesat itself ?
Well, not freesat exactly but it seems quite feasible that this was a mistake at broadcast rather than with the box. Since there are no other recording boxes out there at the moment I'm not sure if we can say for sure.
Well it seems it was the freesat data as it recorded OK here on a Sky+.
I wonder if the BBC screwed up their start/stop information and it affected both systems? My DTT is set up to use Accurate Record on Freeview so would be at the mercy of the BBC as to when it started/stopped.
A metadata cock-up, then!
Geoff
Do you use Autotracking or Autopadding? Or do you have a repeat timer rather than a Series Record?
I programmed in Horizon (9pm BBC2 England) earlier in the evening via the guide and selecting record once (not the series recording) and Timewatch (8pm BBCHD) and Shameless (10pm CH4) all same method using Autotracking. Left it to it, and it recorded everything perfectly. So i don't understand why nobody elses recorded.
Could it be that on DTT (for bandwidth reasons) AR only includes minimal information? Perhaps my box (a Humax 9200T) started the recording on cue then spotted from now/next that the episode number was wrong and started again?
I don't suppose we'll ever know and since I was a lowly DTT user in this case it's largely irrelevant