EPG appearing and disappearing

Yesterday and today I've noticed that many EPG entries are appearing and
disappearing before my eyes (Humax PVR-9200T/Crystal Palace).

It only seems to be happening for entries from this Saturday, but otherwise
I can't see any pattern. Sometimes it's just a few programmes or most of one
channel and other times it's most of the channels. I've had it when the box
is tuned to different channels, such as BACK, Five and 303.

Has anyone else experienced this, as it doesn't seem to be the sort of thing
that indicates a fault in the box?

--
Max Demian

Max Demian wrote:

Yesterday and today I've noticed that many EPG entries are appearing and
disappearing before my eyes (Humax PVR-9200T/Crystal Palace).

It only seems to be happening for entries from this Saturday, but otherwise
I can't see any pattern. Sometimes it's just a few programmes or most of one
channel and other times it's most of the channels. I've had it when the box
is tuned to different channels, such as BACK, Five and 303.

Has anyone else experienced this, as it doesn't seem to be the sort of thing
that indicates a fault in the box?

--
Max Demian

I think I'd shut the box off at the wall for a minute or so and
reboot. this is one of the first things I do with problems like this
on any EPG problems, with SKY, freeview or virgin.

--
Paul (We won't die of devotion)
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"Paul Heslop" wrote in message
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Max Demian wrote:

Yesterday and today I've noticed that many EPG entries are appearing and
disappearing before my eyes (Humax PVR-9200T/Crystal Palace).

It only seems to be happening for entries from this Saturday, but
otherwise
I can't see any pattern. Sometimes it's just a few programmes or most of
one
channel and other times it's most of the channels. I've had it when the
box
is tuned to different channels, such as BACK, Five and 303.

Has anyone else experienced this, as it doesn't seem to be the sort of
thing
that indicates a fault in the box?

I think I'd shut the box off at the wall for a minute or so and
reboot. this is one of the first things I do with problems like this
on any EPG problems, with SKY, freeview or virgin.

Already tried that.

--
Max Demian

In message , Max Demian
writes
Yesterday and today I've noticed that many EPG entries are appearing and
disappearing before my eyes (Humax PVR-9200T/Crystal Palace).

It only seems to be happening for entries from this Saturday, but otherwise
I can't see any pattern. Sometimes it's just a few programmes or most of one
channel and other times it's most of the channels. I've had it when the box
is tuned to different channels, such as BACK, Five and 303.

Has anyone else experienced this, as it doesn't seem to be the sort of thing
that indicates a fault in the box?

This is a regular occurrence with the now/next guide from Mendip, and
occasional with the EPG.

I've tended to assume weak signals to be the cause.

If I'm watching, say, Film 4, and the now/next is missing a few
channels, changing to one of those that are missing will show all.
--
Ian

Ian wrote:
In message , Max Demian
writes
Yesterday and today I've noticed that many EPG entries are appearing and
disappearing before my eyes (Humax PVR-9200T/Crystal Palace).

It only seems to be happening for entries from this Saturday, but
otherwise
I can't see any pattern. Sometimes it's just a few programmes or most
of one
channel and other times it's most of the channels. I've had it when
the box
is tuned to different channels, such as BACK, Five and 303.

Has anyone else experienced this, as it doesn't seem to be the sort of
thing
that indicates a fault in the box?

This is a regular occurrence with the now/next guide from Mendip, and
occasional with the EPG.

I've tended to assume weak signals to be the cause.

If I'm watching, say, Film 4, and the now/next is missing a few
channels, changing to one of those that are missing will show all.

Interesting as on the BBC Muxes IIRC the Now & Next was derived through
the regional Code & Mux. Don't know if other channels do a similar
thing. It's then called Event Information Table present/following
actual (EITpf actual).

Now & Next on muxes other than the one you are tuned into is called
EITpf other.

Sounds like your box. Changing to a mux containing the missing one
fixing it means the EIT decoding is forced to reset.

Richard

"Max Demian" wrote in message
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Yesterday and today I've noticed that many EPG entries are appearing and
disappearing before my eyes (Humax PVR-9200T/Crystal Palace).

It only seems to be happening for entries from this Saturday, but
otherwise
I can't see any pattern. Sometimes it's just a few programmes or most of
one
channel and other times it's most of the channels. I've had it when the
box
is tuned to different channels, such as BACK, Five and 303.

Has anyone else experienced this, as it doesn't seem to be the sort of
thing
that indicates a fault in the box?

--
Max Demian


Yes I have heard about the 'feature'
Its to do with a lack of memory in the Humax, the EPG stream is OK
It removes everything beyond the 4 days on services which are not on the Mux
you are watching.
i.e. 3 days removed on the other 5 muxes.

"Zach" wrote in message
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"Max Demian" wrote in message
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Yesterday and today I've noticed that many EPG entries are appearing and
disappearing before my eyes (Humax PVR-9200T/Crystal Palace).

It only seems to be happening for entries from this Saturday, but
otherwise
I can't see any pattern. Sometimes it's just a few programmes or most of
one
channel and other times it's most of the channels. I've had it when the
box
is tuned to different channels, such as BACK, Five and 303.

Has anyone else experienced this, as it doesn't seem to be the sort of
thing
that indicates a fault in the box?

Yes I have heard about the 'feature'
Its to do with a lack of memory in the Humax, the EPG stream is OK
It removes everything beyond the 4 days on services which are not on the
Mux
you are watching.
i.e. 3 days removed on the other 5 muxes.

Thank you for the reply, but those aren't the symptoms and the problem
(which only occurred for a few days) seems to have gone away for now.

The memory problem occurred with the 8000T I believe.

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Max Demian