I think there must be more to it than a PVR problem, unless of course it's a complete coincidence that we've both had problems with Family Guy on BBC3.

When I said that maybe it's something to do with the transmission of the programme I didn't mean that I thought the live transmission jumped and skipped, I meant that maybe it's something in the code of the transmission that causes problems for the PVR when it records it or tries to play it back.

God knows what that could be. Maybe it's to do with the codes that are used to schedule the recordings.

My signal comes from the Stockland Hill transmitter. I didn't get my PVR until after the switchover, so I can't comment on any problems before then.

If pughj didn't have the problems before DSO then it is possible that their PVR has had a post DSO software update which introduced the problem with the newer software. It is really odd though how it only seems to affect Family Guy/American Dad.

My 9300 problem did not start with a software update - it was DSO (I had no problems before DSO). I had hoped that software version 19 earlier this year would solve the problem, but it did not.

I forgot to mention that my PVR had an over-the-air software update a little while back, which it indicated when I switched it on the next morning, but it has jumped on one programme that I had recorded since then.

If it does it again I'll make a note of which channel I had recorded, in case this problem is specific to certain channels, which it does appear to be at this stage.

Mine keeps freezing for a split second intermittantly on Ch4, and its other channels like film4, E4!

9300t - version 19. I have problems 1 & 3, unsure about 2.

Last saw problem 1 at the end of Desperate Housewives. MrsPVR unimpressed.

I have finally made a successful recording of Family Guy but on a PVR-9200T!

Congratulations! I hope you make the most of it!

Yes! Mine does this too. Only had it a couple of days but Family Guy recordings off BBC3 go nuts halfway through - they jump randomly and the AV goes completely out of sync.

This is surely more than a coincidence no? Is it worth email Humax to make them aware of this issue?

That's four of us now! I've no idea how these things work, but surely this points towards there being something amiss with BBC's transmitted data for these particular programmes that the PVR has trouble with.

If it was a Humax PVR problem then surely it would to it with recordings on all channels.

It might be worth speaking to Humax about it. I wouldn't be surprised if lots of people have mentioned this to them already. They may not be aware that it occurs with specific programmes though as people might just be complaining about it as a presumed fault with the PVR and not having any reason to even think that the problem only happens on specific programmes/channels.

It was just lucky that dba421 mentioned Family Guy because I didn't mention that in my original post as I didn't think it was relevant.

I have now made several good recordings of Family Guy on a PVR-9200T. Although I have returned the PVR-9150T as being faulty I have emailed Humax support about this issue and it might be worthwhile others doing the same. It can be fixed as my PVR-9200T can cope with Family Guy.

My 9300t has started missing odd scheduled recordings. I didn't get Grand Prix Practice this morning, or Ashes to Ashes fire up.

Maybe a small mishap... Maybe.

I haven't had any missed recordings within a series, nor any missed single scheduled recordings, but mine sometimes stops recording episodes of a scheduled series without warning, then recording no further episodes.

I've read about this before with various PVRs and apparently it's the fault of the television company changing a code for some unknown reason, which the PVR doesn't know about!

My mum and Dad use the Humax PVR-9300T PVR in there bedroom.

If I rescan there PVR as they have not updated it for a bit will it lose all there scheduled recording that they have set up? I hope not.

When ever I rescan my Topfiled TF5800PVR that does not lose the scheduled recording that I have set up.

Also can you rename channel on the Humax PVR-9300T PVR so that I can rename SKY THREE to Sky3 like I have done on my Topfiled TF5800PVR?

I've had that fairly often. If you look in the recording schedule you'll see old, past-dated entries for the programs which have been transmitted with the wrong code.

I check weekly for these, reschedule the series if it's still running, then delete them.

A restore to factory defaults or a full channel scan will lose the scheduled recordings I think. The library should be fine. My old Fusion was the same so I think you are lucky with the Topfield handling it better.

Not sure about channel renaming. Have you checked the FAQs?
Last edited by IWantPVR : 06-04-2010 at 16:03

A format will not affect the recording schedule. A reset to defaults will delete it. I think what happems with a channel scan depends on whether you delete all channels first (which is the correct way to do things) when the recording schedule will be lost. If you don't delete all channels then the recording schedule may be preserved but I am not sure because of changes to the channel scanning software in recent versions of the 9150/9300 software.

Edited my post. I have a 9300t but I haven't tried a format yet. I thought I'd read that it would drop the schedule but maybe I'm thinking of the Fusion.

I also wasn't aware you could delete all channels before a scan but I would definitely expect to lose my schedule that way. I'm not going to test it for sure!

IWantPVR,

Yes, I've noticed that in my recording schedule list. I must get rid of those old scheduled recordings. I don't go into that section very often.



TV King,

Mine didn't lose the scheduled recordings when I did a scan for new channels. I've done it a couple of times and didn't notice that I had lost anything.

I've just checked the user manual to see it there is any mention of losing scheduled recordings and there's nothing about it in there.

As far as I know, you can't rename channels with the 9300T. I looked for this option when I first got mine. Again, I've just double-checked in the manual and in the Edit Channels section there is no mention of an option to rename them.

Have exactly the same problem with Family Guy, also with Points of View. The common factor is that both are short programmes (20 minutes), though I can't think why that should make such a difference.

We've had exactly the same problems for ages now, and it's only on Family Guy and American Dad, specifically the newer episodes. Series that were transmitted ages ago tape fine but the new (and last) series of Family Guy are a waste of time, jumping and out of synch. Like another poster, I watched it fine on the Sunday night and then when I watched the recorded version, it skipped everywhere.

This also happens on the Saturday repeat but if I tape one of the older episodes in the week, no problems. It's crazy.

Cannot comment on 9300 but I have had no problems with recording Family Guy on 9200TB - apart from the Beeb linking the new episodes with older episodes from earlier series so they get recorded as well.

I asked them about this problem about recording family guy
And I have to manually tune Crystal Palace or something
Didn't really give me a proper answer but I hope this helps someone

Please follow these steps to refresh the tuners and manually tune into your local transmitter

1. Power OFF the receiver
2. Disconnect the Aerial cable
3. Power On the receiver
4. Press MENU
5. Select Installation
6. Enter your password (default = 0000)
7. Select Default Setting
8. Select YES
9. Enter your password (Default = 0000)
10. When the receiver restarts, power off
11. Reconnect the Aerial cable
12. Power on the Box
13. Press ok on stop (when you see automatic search)
14. ‘No channels found’ press ok
15. ‘Press ok to search channels’ press ok
16. Select Manual search

Then please follow the steps below…

The following procedure will allow you to receive signal from the Crystal Palace transmitter



Please go down to Network Search and select enable.

Then go to Channel and select 25.

Then select Search. When the search has finished, press save.



With Network Search enabled this should find all the channels on all multiplexes.

However if this does not find all channels you will have to search the multiplexes individually.



To do this please switch Network Search back to Disable and search the following channels one after the other, selecting save after each search;

25-22-28-32-34-29

Does a manual retune of the PVR fix the Family Guy/American Dad playback problem?