I've just had my Sky box replaced with a Sky+ box. When I tried to use it yesterday to timer record Stargate Atlantis from Sky1 directly to my Panasonic EX77, whilst playing back something else from the machine, I noticed that about five or six times I'd get square info banner on screen changing from REC back to PAUSE for a few seconds before returning to REC again.
(I normally expect this at the start of a timer record - it first pauses and then goes into record mode.)
After the recording had finished, the timer list and the navigational view had a symbol showing the recording may have failed due to copy-protection. The recording looks fine except for the jumps cause by the random pauses.
I wondered whether this was a loose SCART lead problem, so I pushed it all the way in and repeated the recording tonight from Sky2.
I got the same issue again.
My old Sky box worked fine, so I'm wondering what could have happened...
I didn't think Sky1/Sky2 were copy-protected, nor did I believe that Sky and Sky+ boxes differed from the signals they output.
Both my old Sky box and this Sky+ box were connected via SCART from the TV OUT on the Sky box (to preserve RGB) to the AV2 socket on the Panasonic.
I wondered if anyone else had come across this?
(I normally expect this at the start of a timer record - it first pauses and then goes into record mode.)
After the recording had finished, the timer list and the navigational view had a symbol showing the recording may have failed due to copy-protection. The recording looks fine except for the jumps cause by the random pauses.
I wondered whether this was a loose SCART lead problem, so I pushed it all the way in and repeated the recording tonight from Sky2.
I got the same issue again.
My old Sky box worked fine, so I'm wondering what could have happened...
I didn't think Sky1/Sky2 were copy-protected, nor did I believe that Sky and Sky+ boxes differed from the signals they output.
Both my old Sky box and this Sky+ box were connected via SCART from the TV OUT on the Sky box (to preserve RGB) to the AV2 socket on the Panasonic.
I wondered if anyone else had come across this?
