As a neutral bystander in this, I would just say that I don't agree with what you say.

The responsibiliy for getting the metadata right is with the broadcasters, not the TV/video/set top box manufacturers.

If you had a Sony telly, would you complain to Sony about poor picture quality on ITV when all other channels look OK? Of course not. You'd complain to ITV!

If you had read my last post properly, you would see that I did NOT blame the equipment manufacturer, I said they were best placed to chase it up and sort as opposed to me the man in the street. I also said that it was my opinion that those responsible for supplying the metadata should get it right, how the hell is that blaming the manufacturer.
Also, if you look carefully, you will see I am NOT complaing about one channel being better or worse than another, but enquiring why one box is behaving totally different to another box on the same channel. Several people were good and patient enough to explain. It is a pity you let picking holes in someone elses post get the better of being a neutral bystander.
I don't visit forums very often, because as in this case it very rarely solves my problem and I find suppliers and manufacturers much more help. There is also the fact that in my experience, a large number of forum members seem to do nothing other than pick holes in the postings of others or getting in the last word regardless.

So this seems another variable problem. At first I wondered if I was getting senile and had selected the wrong programme to series record, but I tried the same operation many many times and each time it put the wrong programme in. It is interesting that it behaves differently for others, and though I think the box is a big improvement on my Sky HD with regard to user information and user friendliness, it seems that most boxes behave differently in differing situations or location. I wonder if it acted different for you because of a different postcode?, try a Colchester postcode like CO10 7P* and see if that is the reason.

The Morning Line is fine for me also... I schedule this as an SR, it comes up as The Morning Line SR in the scheduled timers list

m0aur, when you schedule a timer for this programme, do you see the timer icon appearing in the EPG? Could you call up the synopsis info by pressing 'i'?

Do you get: "Turf Tips and news from the Channel 4 Racing team. [S]" or something else.

The SR data is:
Prog CRID: www.channel4.com /45515/054
Series CRID: www.channel4.com /C4060030607162128180

I use my local Scottish postcode on the HDR (since ITV1 London is available on 977).

Well, believe it or not, it is now working correctly, these digital boxes really know how to make someone appear stupid don't they!, it seems to have sorted itself and it cannot be any change in the software without a firmware update, so I really don't know what is going on, though I have noticed here that others have had problems magically correct themselves.
Anyway, I am now trying to find why the Audio Accompaniment that helps my blind wife does not work on Coronation Street either on ITV1 or ITV2, though I have always found it a problem, with the Sky box it worked in the ITV2 late night transmission but not on the ITV1 early edition, such is digital tv I suppose!, though I feel Freesat would be better of if they could get away from the same satellite as Sky and their "You cant have CH4 HD if we can't have ITV HD" petty squabbles.

Looked in the listings and starsky and hutch are down as starsky and amphutch.

Been like that for months on the Foxsat HD. Don't think its the box because other channels correctly display the & symbol. Seems to be just that one channel. Might be how they supply their program data to Freesat????

Follow up to the Morning line schedule problem.
Switched the HDR on this morning and there were TWO programmes in the "Morning Line" folder, which I thought strange as there has been only one Saturday morning since I git my box on Monday. A peep inside the folder displayed the fact that the box HAD recorded Friday afternoons Channel 4 racing coverage as well as this mornings Morning Line. This shows that as I said my box was hell bent on recording Friday afternoons racing before it would record Saturdays Morning Line as I wanted. As I said before this bug only happened if series link was selected for the morning line. After Friday afternoon racing was over on Channel 4 at about 3 50 pm, my box and those of others was quite happy to programme the morning line on a series link.
So it seems to me that after all the usual chasing ones tail on a forum, including rambling on about Volvo cars and potholes in the road, that the problem may well be a firmware bug as I first suspected

If you read *my* post and thought for 1 second, you wouldn't have typed half of the above.

I did not suggest any of the things you say above, merely that it was inappropriate complaining to Humax about a TV listing problem.

I don't think you are going to win many friends around here with your generally arsey attitude either.

Hi all I have been reading this thread and wondered could having the none freesat mode enabled be causing some of the problems been raised on here. I had some problems with my grundig HD box,eg, would not add new channels to EPG some of the EPG was missing glitches on the HD channels, but when I deleted none freesat channels and disabled the mode everything began to work , no more glitches on HD and the new channels added automaticlly.
maybe theses boxes are not ment to have none freesat modes. just a thought.

I would like to be able to control the volume on my Sony surround sound system using the Humax remote control.

I have carefully followed the sequence on page GB80 of the manual, but whichever (Sony) 4 figure code listed on page GB93 I use, I am unable to complete the sequence, ie when the fourth digit is entered, the ‘Audio’ button fails to blink twice.

Is this a bug? Has anyone else been able to use the Humax HDR remote control to control their audio system?

I didn’t have any problem saving a 4 digit code to the ‘TV’ button.

Just noticed that no interactive services were working on any of the BBC Channels (i.e. no press red prompts, no text services etc.). Went to standby and then back on and interactive services were back.

And

You would be wrong yet again.

A quick check of the data, and it would appear C4 used the same Series data for Friday racing, and Sat Morning Line......so the HDR actually worked as it should have done.

Not sure the split recording functionality is bug-free.

Just tried set "Strictly" to record in HD and then the results show later on in SD.

It accepted the HD recording but when trying to set the results show recording, it says it can't because it clashes with another recording. The other recording is Harry Hill, scheduled to record at a different time on a different day! Also, I wouldn't not have more than 2 programs recording at once even if it *did* clash with Harry Hill.

So seems very confused!

I don't know what you are doing or how you are doing it but...

(Your clash, seems to be a clash if you have both BBC HD and the results show scheduled, as the results show will also schedule the actual show on BBC1 as it is link via the split event!)

SCD is a split event programme on BBC1, and when scheduling this, it does not give an HD alternative. It will just record the programme on BBC1 and then later the results show...

If you schedule the BBC HD of SCD it will just record that (and not the results show...)

The box is doing with what ever metadata it is getting...

I had this earlier.

You can't record /only/ the results show on BBC1 - the box forces you to record the (SD) main show too.

So then add in the recording of the HD version, and that's all your tuners full!

I was highlighting a recording problem with the HDR, not a listing problem.

With regard to "Winning many friends", YOU are the one with the snotty arsey attitude, and for your information, I have no wish whatsoever to win over the sniping, knowall know bugger all priggish element that sadly frequent all forums I have visited, my life is not that sad.

Humax have stated that they only included the non-Freesat mode because they were forced to contractually, and to that end did absolutely no more than forced to, so I don't expect they will go out of their way to sort problems caused by the non-Freesat mode when they are promoting Freesat, and they actively dissuade us from using it. Could it just be that it has been set up a bit buggy to actively guide us toward the Freesat mode only??

I had the same problem of a forced recording I did not want, but when I highlighted it as a new user, one other user virtually tagged me an idiot.

I don't have access to the meta data but I assume that the two programmes have been linked in the metadata. This has not been done with 'the x factor' so the problem doesn't exist.

Lord knows how you'd get to the right person with regards to not linking the two programmes. They don't link them when they're on different days so perhaps it's just a minor cock up.

I think if non freesat was removed there maybe a lot of angry people about quite a few of the people i know who bought a humax hd and the 4 people i know who have hdrs have them mainly for the non freesat mode myself included.

1. Bookmarks

Huge delay when deleting a bookmark - you press add again as in the manual and it then takes 2 or 3 seconds to actually disappear.

Also, sometimes difficult / slow to jump to.


2. No Teletext when Recording

I'm finding Teletext refuses to show when I'm recording a program even if I'm on a channel other than the one I'm recording from.


3. Splitting Recordings

Not really a bug but a feature request.

Wed night I recorded Transporter 2 and Lucky Number Slevin using Instant recording and the extend the recording time feature. I expected I would get 2 recordings as the Humax knows from the schedule when each and every program starts and ends.

However, I got a single file named Transporter 2.

I now have the 2 films under 1 title and the only way of accessing Lucky Number Slevin is to bookmark it and jump.

Given its hard drive based, would it not be possible to include a split feature to allow you to split any recording into 2 at a given point and rename the split half?

(Be even better if the Humax could offer the option from the program markers and rename it for you if you chose to split).

This would overcome the problem of using extended recordings which result in more than 1 program being recorded.

If combined with a delete function, it would also allow recordings to be trimmed at start and end to remove adverts.

Quite, I think that what we need is a version of the firmware that combines Freesat and non Freesat modes, lets you schedule recordings using the Freesat EPG (for your favourite channels!) and perhaps does not bother with the Freesat logo. - i.e. is not officially a Freesat receiver but makes use of the excellent hardware.

Sorry I ment if you disabled non freesat mode in your settings, this may cure some of the problems, If freesat just wish you to use the EPG, then enabling non freesat mode could be causing the prblems we are seeing.

Yes. I think the BBC has cocked it up! SCD has not been coded as a split event programme before. For some reason they did it for tonight - and hence the problems... Also the HD option disappeared due to the SE tag!

(What is apparent and revealing is that the Freesat+ system can't seem to cope with sending both SE and Alternative Instance Info for HD metadata.)