Top Gear 6/6/04 Sky+

I tried to tape Top Gear BBC2 tonight and it's just not showing in the Sky+
Planner. No failed recording, start missed - nothing in the planner.

I know it was there because it has put next weeks in via series link. I know
of two other mates who've had the same thing.

We're in West Yorks by the way.

Anyone else experienced this?

Bloody annoying!!

Adam B Smith wrote:
I tried to tape Top Gear BBC2 tonight and it's just not showing in the Sky+
Planner. No failed recording, start missed - nothing in the planner.

I know it was there because it has put next weeks in via series link. I know
of two other mates who've had the same thing.

We're in West Yorks by the way.

Anyone else experienced this?

Bloody annoying!!

Same here. Well pi55ed off that it's missed it.
Yet, the planner is already showing next weeks starting at 10pm !!

"Andy Clark" wrote in message
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Adam B Smith wrote:
I tried to tape Top Gear BBC2 tonight and it's just not showing in the Sky+
Planner. No failed recording, start missed - nothing in the planner.

I know it was there because it has put next weeks in via series link. I know
of two other mates who've had the same thing.

We're in West Yorks by the way.

Anyone else experienced this?

Bloody annoying!!

Same here. Well pi55ed off that it's missed it.
Yet, the planner is already showing next weeks starting at 10pm !!



The s&s banner was showing "The Good Life" during the screening of
Top Gear, if the BBC are sending the wrong data then SKY+ can not
by itself recognise Clarkson from Kendell.

Mike C

Andy Clark wrote:
Adam B Smith wrote:
I tried to tape Top Gear BBC2 tonight and it's just not showing in
the Sky+ Planner. No failed recording, start missed - nothing in
the planner.

I know it was there because it has put next weeks in via series
link. I know of two other mates who've had the same thing.

We're in West Yorks by the way.

Anyone else experienced this?

Bloody annoying!!

Same here. Well pi55ed off that it's missed it.
Yet, the planner is already showing next weeks starting at 10pm !!

It is on next week at 10pm due to the European Championships. Then it is off
air for 3 weeks.
Regards
John

"Mike_C" wrote in message ...
"Andy Clark" wrote in message
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Adam B Smith wrote:
I tried to tape Top Gear BBC2 tonight and it's just not showing in the Sky+
Planner. No failed recording, start missed - nothing in the planner.

I know it was there because it has put next weeks in via series link. I know
of two other mates who've had the same thing.

We're in West Yorks by the way.

Anyone else experienced this?

Bloody annoying!!

Same here. Well pi55ed off that it's missed it.
Yet, the planner is already showing next weeks starting at 10pm !!



The s&s banner was showing "The Good Life" during the screening of
Top Gear, if the BBC are sending the wrong data then SKY+ can not
by itself recognise Clarkson from Kendell.

Mike C

This happened to me last night as well.
I only realised that Top Gear wasn't being recorded when I stopped
watching something else and noticed the red light wasn't on.

Must search for a torrent of the program.

WM

Adam B Smith wrote:
I tried to tape Top Gear BBC2 tonight and it's just not showing in
the Sky+ Planner. No failed recording, start missed - nothing in the
planner.

I had the same problem. I checked at around 20:15. The programme
was being recorded. However the 'Now and Next' banner incorrectly
displayed.

Now: The Good Life
8:00: Top Gear

The Top Gear entry was tagged as 'Recording'. And I confirmed this
by looking in the Sky Planner.

However when I checked again at 20:35, the N+N said (correctly)

Now Top Gear
9:00 Football Diaries

There was no record tag, and no sign of any Top Gear recording in the
planner.
What had been recorded, had been erased.

I was also recording the D-Day film on BBC1 at the same time (20:00-22:00)
That did record OK.

The fault looked to me to be with the BBC. They did not move the N+N data
along after The Good Life had finished, and it confused our boxes when they
finally corrected the error sometime between 20:15 and 20:35 :-(

oSpam (Adam B Smith) wrote in message ...

I tried to tape Top Gear BBC2 tonight and it's just not showing in the Sky+
Planner. No failed recording, start missed - nothing in the planner.

I know it was there because it has put next weeks in via series link. I know
of two other mates who've had the same thing.

Anyone else experienced this?

Yes! Luckily I watched it live though, but I went into the Sky+
Planner later in the evening to delete the recording, and there was
nothing there. It kept the series link and put in an entry to record
it next week though!

Tariq

On 06 Jun 2004 22:05:45 GMT, oSpam (Adam B Smith)
wrote:

I tried to tape Top Gear BBC2 tonight and it's just not showing in the Sky+
Planner. No failed recording, start missed - nothing in the planner.

I know it was there because it has put next weeks in via series link. I know
of two other mates who've had the same thing.

We're in West Yorks by the way.

Anyone else experienced this?

Bloody annoying!!

Aye, This happened to me as well. Thought it wasn't on as it didn't
even show up as 'FAILED' but next weeks show was in the planner.

However they are talking about it on uk.rec.cars.* so looks like sky +
messed up somehow.

Disappointing.

I had a slightly different problem with the program.

I set up a series link a couple of weeks ago.

Noticed it was just after 8pm and started watching the recording from
the Sky Planner.

The wife came home from a day trip so I paused the playback.

Much time went by during which I played a few snippets of the
recording.

Eventually pressed backup to return to live pictures.

Later I returned to Sky Planner where there was no sign of previous
recording.

It was 8:45pm so I watched the last 15 minutes.

I have had very very few problems with Sky+

John

John Pearson wrote:
I had a slightly different problem with the program.

I set up a series link a couple of weeks ago.

Noticed it was just after 8pm and started watching the recording from
the Sky Planner.

The wife came home from a day trip so I paused the playback.

Much time went by during which I played a few snippets of the
recording.

Eventually pressed backup to return to live pictures.

Later I returned to Sky Planner where there was no sign of previous
recording.

Yes, the late running 'roll over' of the EPG data for The Good Life/Top Gear
probably erased your recording too

I have had very very few problems with Sky+

Same here. This is the first failure I've had in over two years.

By the way, I assume that everyone using BBC2 England had the
problem. Did anyone using BBC 2 Wales, Scotland, or NI ?