Another Sky+ problem I haven't seen mentioned yet

Nipped home for lunch yesterday and when I turned the TV on I realised
that (a) I'd left channel 402 on, (b) The Rugby Club was on and (c) I
hadn't recorded it on Thursday night (too busy getting drunk at the
Christmas party).

No problem, thinks I - with this fancy new software I can just press
record, and it'll save the whole programme from the beginning, even
though I've "missed" the first half an hour...

However, when I tried watching it last night from the planner,
everything looked OK, with a "RECORDED" in the planner screen, then
the usual synopsis and option to choose where to start watching, but
every time I tried playing back the programme, I would just get a
brief pause, then a blue screen with the synopsis window in the
middle. The only way to exit was by pressing Back Up - after about a
second this returned me to the Personal Planner.

Has anybody else experienced this?

Charlie

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Nipped home for lunch yesterday and when I turned the TV on I realised
that (a) I'd left channel 402 on, (b) The Rugby Club was on and (c) I
hadn't recorded it on Thursday night (too busy getting drunk at the
Christmas party).

No problem, thinks I - with this fancy new software I can just press
record, and it'll save the whole programme from the beginning, even
though I've "missed" the first half an hour...

However, when I tried watching it last night from the planner,
everything looked OK, with a "RECORDED" in the planner screen, then
the usual synopsis and option to choose where to start watching, but
every time I tried playing back the programme, I would just get a
brief pause, then a blue screen with the synopsis window in the
middle. The only way to exit was by pressing Back Up - after about a
second this returned me to the Personal Planner.

Has anybody else experienced this?

Charlie

To ask a personal question...how long is your buffer?

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here's one for you i recorded wcw on channal 268 on thursday night at 7pm
at 7.55pm i ended the recorded by pressing r in the planner done this loads
off times and it works , i went in the planner to watch it and the **** was
not in there ,it got rid off it

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Nipped home for lunch yesterday and when I turned the TV on I realised
that (a) I'd left channel 402 on, (b) The Rugby Club was on and (c) I
hadn't recorded it on Thursday night (too busy getting drunk at the
Christmas party).

No problem, thinks I - with this fancy new software I can just press
record, and it'll save the whole programme from the beginning, even
though I've "missed" the first half an hour...

However, when I tried watching it last night from the planner,
everything looked OK, with a "RECORDED" in the planner screen, then
the usual synopsis and option to choose where to start watching, but
every time I tried playing back the programme, I would just get a
brief pause, then a blue screen with the synopsis window in the
middle. The only way to exit was by pressing Back Up - after about a
second this returned me to the Personal Planner.

Has anybody else experienced this?

Charlie

To ask a personal question...how long is your buffer?

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In article ,
Charlie Pearce wrote:
Ballcocks - now I've just experienced the +17 minute problem for
myself for the first time...

I experienced it constantly. A "Full System Reset" seems to have solved
the problem and increased reliability.

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In uk.media.tv.sky on Sun, 14 Dec 2003, Charlie Pearce wrote :

Ballcocks - now I've just experienced the +17 minute problem for
myself for the first time...

Sky+ viewing experience not so great since the upgrade ;-)

BTW, has anyone noticed you can set your clocks by the complaints that
come after every Sky software upgrade?
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On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 11:34:07 GMT,
(Charlie Pearce) wrote:

Nipped home for lunch yesterday and when I turned the TV on I realised
that (a) I'd left channel 402 on, (b) The Rugby Club was on and (c) I
hadn't recorded it on Thursday night (too busy getting drunk at the
Christmas party).

No problem, thinks I - with this fancy new software I can just press
record, and it'll save the whole programme from the beginning, even
though I've "missed" the first half an hour...

However, when I tried watching it last night from the planner,
everything looked OK, with a "RECORDED" in the planner screen, then
the usual synopsis and option to choose where to start watching, but
every time I tried playing back the programme, I would just get a
brief pause, then a blue screen with the synopsis window in the
middle. The only way to exit was by pressing Back Up - after about a
second this returned me to the Personal Planner.

Has anybody else experienced this?

Ballcocks - now I've just experienced the +17 minute problem for
myself for the first time...

Sky+ viewing experience not so great since the upgrade ;-)

Charlie

Yes but not on every recorded program!
regards George

On 29 Dec 2003 06:06:03 -0800, (george
woods) wrote:

(Charlie Pearce) wrote in message ...

Ballcocks - now I've just experienced the +17 minute problem for
myself for the first time...

Sky+ viewing experience not so great since the upgrade ;-)

Charlie

Yes but not on every recorded program!

True - I haven't had a single problem since (fingers crossed).

Charlie

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