How reliable is your Freesat PVR at recording when using the Auto option?

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Z3man

27-06-2011

Originally Posted by nexstar:
“Ah, thanks for that. I've missed my window of opportunity to edit it now but at least I'll know next time .

@Z3man My region is Meridian btw. Yes, I think the results, thought not definitive, give a strong indication that it is the broadcast signal which is most likely to cause errors (apart from the user, of course!). Any further observations after the recent Echostar firmware upgrade would be welcome in the Echostar thread whilst I try to come up with a plausible excuse for trialling yet another pvr .”

my region is tyne tees. i will be updating the echostar thread soon, not much more to say really though, after the recent improvements to the library i cant think of anything else to make it better.

someone has put another five star review on amazon today, so there must be some more owners out there, not many owners seem to contribute to the echostar thread on here, i think it is maybe a little expensive for a lot of people.

Gary Glimmer

27-06-2011

Gonna be playing with mine tomorrow that's for sure!

Took my Grundig back to costco and had my refund within a few mins of asking. Love costco. Bought well over a year ago too hehe.

Z3man

27-06-2011

great let us know how you get on.

don't forget you will be running the older 117r software, although 119r could be release tomorrow, its due any day now.

Flyer 10

02-07-2011

I just had C4 cut off the end of Camelot, its the 1st failure apart from programs affected by sporting events.

Z3man

10-07-2011

mine missed off the last few minutes of Top Gear tonight, did this happen to anyone else?

Flyer 10

10-07-2011

Originally Posted by Z3man:
“mine missed off the last few minutes of Top Gear tonight, did this happen to anyone else?”

Worked fine for me.

carvell

10-07-2011

Fine for me too for what it's worth. Humax HDR.

gomezz

10-07-2011

Top Gear always overruns. If Accurate Recording works properly on your PVR then it would have picked it up. Mine did. Possibly dependant on what your PVR does if you had two other recordings due to be active at the scheduled end of TG (9pm) (unless one was also on the same channel as TG) so ran out of tuners to use.

Flyer 10

10-07-2011

It was about 3 mins late starting so I would assume either he had 2 9pm recordings scheduled or used manual padding.

Z3man

10-07-2011

had no more recordings set. the first two episodes of the current series over ran a bit as well and my box recorded them ok, i have it set up as a series link on the auto setting.

just been looking at the recording times-

episode 1 = 1.02.19

episode 2 = 1.03.53

episode 3 = 0.59.27

i think echostar still have some work to do.

mjr

10-07-2011

Top Gear on BBC HD (as opposed to BBC 2) was fine for me via Foxsat HDR. (When comparing, probably worth mentioning BBC2 or BBC HD)

Z3man

10-07-2011

mine was on BBC HD.

Z3man

11-07-2011

Originally Posted by Z3man:
“had no more recordings set. the first two episodes of the current series over ran a bit as well and my box recorded them ok, i have it set up as a series link on the auto setting.

just been looking at the recording times-

episode 1 = 1.02.19

episode 2 = 1.03.53

episode 3 = 0.59.27

i think echostar still have some work to do.”

i have just been reading a post on another forum where a samsung smt-s7800 owner had missed the end of first two episode of Top Gear but had got the end of the third episode, the total opposite from what has happened to me. i find that very strange.

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