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Spooks failed!! Foxsat HDR
Anyone else get a "recording failed, unknown reason" with Spooks tonight (18th)? Most annoying. Actually I had 3 recordings fail throughout the day today, but this is the only one I'm bothered about. Normally the box is v reliable, so 3 in one day is very disturbing. I had done the requested freesat tune prior to Spooks, but not the other failures so no idea what's going on....
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I've just started watching my recording of Spooks, so far all is OK.
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I've just about given up on my Pace Twin Digital recorder to go Freesat, but now I'm not so sure. Surely reliable digital tv recording can't be that difficult?
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I've had the HDR since launch and do get the recording failed now and again. Very rarely though (a handful of times since launch).
Spooks should be on iPlayer though
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Spooks recorded OK here. I too get the odd failed recording, once every 6 months maybe, all on ITV HD.
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I've just about given up on my Pace Twin Digital recorder to go Freesat, but now I'm not so sure. Surely reliable digital tv recording can't be that difficult?
![]() Neither box is likely to lose more than half a dozen recordings a year in my experience though. I should point out that the HDR is the only Freesat box I've ever used. I do have experience of quite a few Freeview boxes though. The box I use the most is Sky HD. Lol - at present it's running both tuners from 8pm to 1am nearly every night. You can almost here it whining in protest
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Recorded fine here on series recording. Timing was exactly to schedule 21:00 - 22:00
Region BBC1-WM which is not one that moved transponders. It would be interesting to know if the failed recording was one of the ones that moved. |
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Nil desperandum.
It's repeated on Sunday, 11:25pm BBC1 NE & Cumbria. |
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failed recording
hi again ,did anybody have a failed recording of sundays omnibus edition of bad girls on cbs drama.got message failed recording ,unknown reason.also last night bbc 4 had message signal scrambled,any one any idea what went wrong.thanks in advance.bye the way bad gils was for my wife ,not me haha.
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Apparently it is. The most reliable boxes I've found are Sky+/Sky HD and the Humax Foxsat HDR. None of them are perfect. The HDR seems to suffer mainly from broadcasters not sending the right metadata. The Sky boxes suffer more from software faults with the box.
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My experience too, the HDR has been the best PVR I've had (I include an early Pace twin, Sky+ - both Pace and Thomson - and Sky+HD in that assessment. Oh, and a Wharfedale LP250HDMI
- er, if you must know it was an impulse buy I regretted from the moment I booted it up). The HDR knocks spots off all of them. That's why I was so shocked when 3 recordings failed in one day! It's normally rock solid - and has been ever since. Now set to record Sunday night's repeat of Spooks.
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My mothers likes to record "Midsummer Murders" on her one from ITV Meridian but more often than not "Failed Unknown Reason".
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My poor mothers box still tends to fail to record Midsummer Murders from whichever ITV region she tries. This is the ones on in the afternoon at about 16:00 e.g. Quote:
DRAMA: Midsomer Murders I was wondering could it be because ITV have spilit these into one hour epsisodes but have not changed the EPG data to match?On: ITV1 Meridian (103) Date: Thursday 28th October 2010 (starting in 3 hours and 39 minutes) Time: 16:00 to 17:00 (1 hour long) A Talent for Life. Series 6, episode 1. Conclusion. Barnaby and Troy have to solve a double murder when a feisty former socialite and a Casanova are found bludgeoned to death. However, the motives for the murders seem disparate, and there are several people who are suspected of involvement. (Stereo, Repeat, Widescreen, Subtitles, 2003, 2 Star) Director: Sarah Hellings Starring: John Nettles, Daniel Casey, Jane Wymark, Laura Howard, Honor Blackman, Philip Franks ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Excerpt taken from DigiGuide - the world's best TV guide available from http://www.getdigiguide.com/?p=1&r=69933 Copyright (c) GipsyMedia Limited. Anyone else recording this program? Automan. |
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I can't check meridian but ITV1 Granada is coded correctly for all Midsomer Murders within the epg. Most likely explanation is ITV reverting to messing with the event ID's which caused loads of recording failures during the World Cup. Set a series record to see what happens. It has picked up all the Midsomer Murders in the epg.
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I did not realise till today the Freesat EPG did not list all the regional variations of ITV.
All we get is Meridian and London. So I have set my mothers box to a manual 16:00 - 17:00 mon-fri and my unit with a series link both using Meridian. I will report back after the event... Automan. |
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I did not realise till today the Freesat EPG did not list all the regional variations of ITV.
All we get is Meridian and London. So I have set my mothers box to a manual 16:00 - 17:00 mon-fri and my unit with a series link both using Meridian. I will report back after the event... Automan. |
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My poor mothers box still tends to fail to record Midsummer Murders from whichever ITV region she tries.
This is the ones on in the afternoon at about 16:00 e.g. I was wondering could it be because ITV have spilit these into one hour epsisodes but have not changed the EPG data to match? Anyone else recording this program? Automan. ![]()
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Midsomer Murders started recording OK (simutaneous with Doctors in HD)
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Yes, I am & I'm getting failures once or twice a week. The schedule updates correctly but fails to record. It seems to me that when we are here to watch it, it records, but if we are out it fails. Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean it's not out to get me!
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Todays Midsomer recorded fine and scheduled has updated to tomorrow
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Midsomer Murders started recording OK (simutaneous with Doctors in HD)
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Both my Mothers manual recording and my Series Link one recorded OK.
However she seems to think it is always the first part of two part ones that fail so we will see this Friday. Back to my thought that when they cut the episodes in half some data about program length was not updated. Just a guess of course.... Automan. |
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Both my Mothers manual recording and my Series Link one recorded OK.
However she seems to think it is always the first part of two part ones that fail so we will see this Friday. Back to my thought that when they cut the episodes in half some data about program length was not updated. Just a guess of course.... Automan.
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Both my Mothers manual recording and my Series Link one recorded OK.
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Midsomer Murders today failed to start despite still being in the schedule. Looks like the event ID problem, After 17:00 it should create a failed recording entry in the media list outside of the series folder and the schedule list will update to the next one (On Sunday I think). Watch this space
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- er, if you must know it was an impulse buy I regretted from the moment I booted it up). The HDR knocks spots off all of them. That's why I was so shocked when 3 recordings failed in one day! It's normally rock solid - and has been ever since. Now set to record Sunday night's repeat of Spooks.