Every now and then the picture breaks up for a few seconds or less near the start of a recording. I've not established a pattern other than its being near the start of a recording. It's a CRT TV, so scart connection. Is this a Humax "feature?"
Picture breaks up in Humax recordings
Depending on numbers of times observed, it is likely that what you are seeing is simply the signal breaking up and the 'near the start' element is co-incidence. Is your dish looking through or near trees / movable obstructions? Recent 'British summer' weather gives the odd signal break-up as well.
Do you get any breakup on the Live signal?
Is the breakup at the same point in the recording, i.e. can you rewind to the same place every time, and it breaks up at that same place, or will it break up at different places depending on where you rewind to?
Is it when the box is busy recording other progs whilst you are watching another recording? I haven't noticed this myself, but I did have a Sky box once that jittered for a second, before the disk got itself into gear and got going. Barely noticeable, and not every time, but when it happened, you saw it.
Rgds.
Les.
Is the breakup at the same point in the recording, i.e. can you rewind to the same place every time, and it breaks up at that same place, or will it break up at different places depending on where you rewind to?
Is it when the box is busy recording other progs whilst you are watching another recording? I haven't noticed this myself, but I did have a Sky box once that jittered for a second, before the disk got itself into gear and got going. Barely noticeable, and not every time, but when it happened, you saw it.
Rgds.
Les.
Originally Posted by savvy:
“Do you get any breakup on the Live signal?”
“Do you get any breakup on the Live signal?”
No. I did lose the signal completely for a while in a violent thunderstorm. That's just once since mid-June when I joined Freesat. Dish was new then as well.
Originally Posted by savvy:
“Is the breakup at the same point in the recording, i.e. can you rewind to the same place every time, and it breaks up at that same place”
“Is the breakup at the same point in the recording, i.e. can you rewind to the same place every time, and it breaks up at that same place”
Haven't established this yet. I will test it out on the programme I'm part way through watching at the moment and report back.
Originally Posted by savvy:
“Is it when the box is busy recording other progs whilst you are watching another recording?”
“Is it when the box is busy recording other progs whilst you are watching another recording?”
In the current case there were indeed two other programmes being recorded. I can't remember the situation on previous occasions. But I will check for this the next time it happens.
@savvy, the breakup is at the same point in the recording. In fact in this case it was especially bad as the breakup occurred about three times in the one hour recording. In the past it has happened once near the start.
The specific programme was an episode of The Saint on ITV 4 from over a week ago. It's also happened on Five once I think. I can't remember the details of the other incidents.
However, I watched another ITV 4 recording last night plus a couple of Zone Thriller programmes and they were fine.
I have no obstructions to my satellite dish.
I'll just have to see if I can discover a pattern.
The specific programme was an episode of The Saint on ITV 4 from over a week ago. It's also happened on Five once I think. I can't remember the details of the other incidents.
However, I watched another ITV 4 recording last night plus a couple of Zone Thriller programmes and they were fine.
I have no obstructions to my satellite dish.
I'll just have to see if I can discover a pattern.
Originally Posted by NewWorldMan:
“@savvy, the breakup is at the same point in the recording. In fact in this case it was especially bad as the breakup occurred about three times in the one hour recording. In the past it has happened once near the start.
The specific programme was an episode of The Saint on ITV 4 from over a week ago. It's also happened on Five once I think. I can't remember the details of the other incidents.
However, I watched another ITV 4 recording last night plus a couple of Zone Thriller programmes and they were fine.
I have no obstructions to my satellite dish.
I'll just have to see if I can discover a pattern.”
“@savvy, the breakup is at the same point in the recording. In fact in this case it was especially bad as the breakup occurred about three times in the one hour recording. In the past it has happened once near the start.
The specific programme was an episode of The Saint on ITV 4 from over a week ago. It's also happened on Five once I think. I can't remember the details of the other incidents.
However, I watched another ITV 4 recording last night plus a couple of Zone Thriller programmes and they were fine.
I have no obstructions to my satellite dish.
I'll just have to see if I can discover a pattern.”
That does sound like a signal problem, not a disk problem.
Over a week ago? We were getting thunderstorms & torrential rain around that time, and people were reporting intermittent signal break-up during that period. If you are like me and use the box to timeshift everything to the full, you will hardly be watching Live TV, so you are only seeing it through your recordings.
As you say, monitor it for a while, maybe make some test recordings across a variety of channels whilst the weather is OK. Maybe check your signal strength & quality on those channels in good & bad weather to see whether you get a marked difference, or not.
Rgds.
Les.
Yeah, I find that most of the live TV I watch is news. Almost everything else is time-shifted. 
I almost can't see the point of having multiple channels without a recording capability. Even with it I still can't watch everything I want to watch. This is where the repetition you get on many of the channels comes in handy as I can catch missed programmes (or even missed channels) at some other time. Of course, there's also the fact that we can't spend all our time watching TV!
Anyway, despite the periodic moans we get about the Humax in these forums (it's not perfect but what is?) I'd say overall I'm happy with my choice.
I almost can't see the point of having multiple channels without a recording capability. Even with it I still can't watch everything I want to watch. This is where the repetition you get on many of the channels comes in handy as I can catch missed programmes (or even missed channels) at some other time. Of course, there's also the fact that we can't spend all our time watching TV!Anyway, despite the periodic moans we get about the Humax in these forums (it's not perfect but what is?) I'd say overall I'm happy with my choice.
Signal problems, I get breakup whenever someone turns on the hot water tap, it seems it activates a pump which emits a burst of noise which interferes with the feed from the LNB to my box, I'm currently going through the process of readying some new coax to be installed to replace the unknown age coax (it's been there at least seven years, it was there when I moved in!), so I'll see what happens after that.
