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Old 27-01-2010, 16:06
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Foxsat HD/HDR OTA firmware available from 5th Feb - according to DTG website
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Old 27-01-2010, 16:14
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Foxsat HD/HDR OTA firmware available from 5th Feb - according to DTG website
Lets hope it fixes the annoying green screen problem
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Old 27-01-2010, 16:19
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My guess/bet is it’s something to do with the iplayer.

Welcome to DS OP.

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Old 27-01-2010, 16:23
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Perhaps Bobcat will shed some light?
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Old 27-01-2010, 16:25
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Foxsat HD/HDR OTA firmware available from 5th Feb - according to DTG website
Yes welcome to the forum chrissaf

I've been keeping my eye on this and yesterday the DTG website reported that the current firmware update was due to end as of the 4th Feb. It still appears that this is still the case. It doesn't however state that a new version is being transmited from the 5th onwards.
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Old 27-01-2010, 16:27
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It's new firmware for the freeview 9150/9300 not the freesat boxes.
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Old 27-01-2010, 17:30
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Foxsat HD/HDR OTA firmware available from 5th Feb - according to DTG website
I saw the update (via RSS feed) yesterday, but it only stated the current update will end on 4th Feb.

Just looked again, and I can't find anything that says a new update will be released on the 5th.

I think grahamlthompson's post above explains it, as a couple of updates for some of the Humax Freeview PVRs are being released on 4/2/2010 & 6/2/2010.

I'm more than happy to be corrected if you can provide a link so backup your claim however
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Old 27-01-2010, 18:16
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Granted, the DTG website doesn't specifically state a new firmware will start on the 5th. But previous firmware OTA have followed a similar pattern of being replaced by a new version on the day after the previous one stopped being broadcast. I have just assumed that this would be the case on this occasion as well. I also agree, and am of the opinion that if a new firmware is being broadcast, that it is likely to be related to iPlayer (possibly going from beta to formal release).
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Old 27-01-2010, 19:40
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Most likely is that they will be finally broadcasting the most recent FOXSAT HD version that has been on the support pages for weeks now!

Foxsat HD

Application: HZPTSF 1.00.25


Resolves issues with loss of signal on High-band Vertical channels


Question is WHY has it taken this long?
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Old 27-01-2010, 20:25
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Hopefully fixes manual networking as well!
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Old 27-01-2010, 20:57
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Foxsat HD/HDR OTA firmware available from 5th Feb - according to DTG website
Can you post the link to the article?
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Old 28-01-2010, 07:45
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Can you post the link to the article?
I thought the DTG site was well known, for finding out when the next software was going out over-air on both Freeview and Freesat....
http://www.dtg.org.uk/industry/download_schedule.php
However this page only shows the end-date of the old software.
A quick flick round the various other pages didn't reveal anything. All we have is speculation about what follows the ending of .24. On past form it has been something new, but that's speculation not news.
(Someone needs to explain this to news broadcasters!)

Last edited by RobinB : 28-01-2010 at 07:53. Reason: discovered NO confirmation of the 'fact'
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Old 28-01-2010, 13:09
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There will be an update for the HD to fix the vertical channel problems (OTA of the downloadable beta I guess) around 4/2 - 5/2.

http://www.hummy.org.uk/forums/showp...00&postcount=1
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Old 28-01-2010, 14:43
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I thought the DTG site was well known, for finding out when the next software was going out over-air on both Freeview and Freesat....
Nope, new one to me, cheers.
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Old 28-01-2010, 20:52
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I did a search of this topic in this forum..
all that i found was along the lines that..
"There are very few freesat channels in the high bands"...from graham..
Have i been lucky in that this problem has not made itself known to me yet..
have been hammering the drive to avoid early failure
and running 70% full at moment..
BUT i have had another "..Let me tune up your channels"
and yes as before ..NOWT found and saved.

Stan
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Old 29-01-2010, 09:45
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I did a search of this topic in this forum..
all that i found was along the lines that..
"There are very few freesat channels in the high bands"...from graham..
Have i been lucky in that this problem has not made itself known to me yet..
have been hammering the drive to avoid early failure
and running 70% full at moment..
BUT i have had another "..Let me tune up your channels"
and yes as before ..NOWT found and saved.

Stan
The paucity of channels in the high bands is not really relevant here. It's a fact that makes anyone using a hdr on one cable considerably more versatile as it makes close to 50% of available channels available to the second tuner.

Try a factory reset, as I said above my hdrs only done it the once.
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Old 30-01-2010, 09:44
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have been hammering the drive to avoid early failure
and running 70% full at moment..
Why does the drive need using to capacity "to avoid early failure"?

Mikembe
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Old 30-01-2010, 13:29
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Foxsat HD/HDR OTA firmware available from 5th Feb - according to DTG website
IF the firmware update does happen make sure you have downloaded and saved the version now on the Humax website to the hard drive on your computer. It will save you a lot of grief if you can roll back to the old software, via a USB stick, if there is a problem, as happened with the Humax HD boxes in November 2009.
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