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Old 01-06-2010, 16:51
mik
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Hi

Is anyone else having this problem? I have noticed on occasion that my hummy box fails to stop recording programs. Last weekend I came home from holiday to find that the Turkish Grand Prix, Doctor Who etc. had not recorded. I have tracked doen the problem on this occasion to one episode of Family Guy which by the time I got to int was over 800 minutes long and still going. It of course causes recording conflicts as it creeps into other scheduled recordings time slots. This is the third time this has happened, I have managed to catch it the other times before it effected other series linked programs. Luckily I had seen the red bulls crash out and McClarens win while I was away. Doctor who is repeated often enough also, my son wasn't happy though.

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Old 01-06-2010, 17:04
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I'm fairly sure that the Humax does what it is told to do. If the broadcaster doesn't send the stop then you can end up with a full hard drive. There have been other incidents similar to yours ...http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s....php?t=1233529 Not wishing to tempt fate but it hasn't happened to me yet and from the amount of time I am away from home it would be catastrophic!
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Old 01-06-2010, 17:07
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Bump ....
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Old 01-06-2010, 20:00
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I don't think they send a "stop signal" but the box stops recording when it sees the "start signal" for the next program.

If by chance you record the last program before a channel goes off air there is no next program "start signal" and thus it keeps recording.

It would seem logical however that the HDR had a maxmum auto overrun % of maybe 10% to stop it should the signal be missed for whatever reason.
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Old 01-06-2010, 21:30
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Thanks for the replies. I think automans idea is a sound one. But I do not think it should be doing it in the first place. One thing has occured to me though, it seems to do it when there is programs of the same name one after another on the schedule ie family guy followed by family guy. The other time it did it was with 'come dine with me' which at weekends has 4 or 5 in a row.

Maybe Humax or whoever is at fault will sort it out in future, I guess I will not risk going on any 12 week cruises

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Old 01-06-2010, 21:50
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The other time it did it was with 'come dine with me' which at weekends has 4 or 5 in a row.
Never been problematic for me.
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Old 01-06-2010, 21:59
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It has only done this three times in the 1 year life of my hummy. My wife and kid are mad on series link episodes so they give it a hard work out. Hopefully it will never do it again.

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