Freeview BBC 1

I'm not getting any listings for BBC one on my freeview box (from
tomorrow onwards). Usually shows 14 days in advance, all of the other
channels appear ok and there's no signal problems etc. Last few days
I've been getting a few 'program/film to be announced', but only on BBC
1, I put this down to the sport over the weekend and that it may alter
times etc.

Anyone else having trouble?

My box is a DVR, Thomson DHD4000.

Moo

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On Feb 4, 9:20 pm, Moo wrote:
I'm not getting any listings for BBC one on my freeview box (from
tomorrow onwards). Usually shows 14 days in advance, all of the other
channels appear ok and there's no signal problems etc. Last few days
I've been getting a few 'program/film to be announced', but only on BBC
1, I put this down to the sport over the weekend and that it may alter
times etc.

Anyone else having trouble?

My box is a DVR, Thomson DHD4000.

Moo

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My blog -http://degeneratemoo.livejournal.com

I've got the same box, DHD4000, but BBC1 (and all channels) have EPG
info for the next 2 weeks. If it is showing "to be announced" that is
info that has been received by the EPG. If it hadn't received
anything it would show "no information available" I think.

Matt

"Moo" wrote in message
...
Last few days I've been getting a few 'program/film to be announced',
but only on BBC 1, I put this down to the sport over the weekend and that
it may alter times etc.

Anyone else having trouble?

My box is a DVR, Thomson DHD4000.

Moo


I have exactly the same problem here (Sutton Coldfield TX), using Sony
SVR-S500. I only ever get 7 day EPG, but am also getting "Program/film to be
announced" on BBC1.

Another annoying problem is that the BBC1 EPG always shows "East Midlands
Today" when it should be "Midlands Today". E Mids is transmitted from
Waltham, not Sutton Coldfield.

Chris

On Feb 4, 10:11 pm, "Chris" wrote:
"Moo" wrote in message

...

Last few days I've been getting a few 'program/film to be announced',
but only on BBC 1, I put this down to the sport over the weekend and that
it may alter times etc.

Anyone else having trouble?


Our box only seems to pick up anything from 1 to 4 days, if we reboot
it it might get up to 7 but that's on a good day, it's a humax pvr -
so could it be the boxes that are more implicated in not picking up a
long term EPG?

Come on give me an excuse to buy a new box - and what box ...?

Will

http://www.comeandletsplay.com

In message
,
wrote

Our box only seems to pick up anything from 1 to 4 days, if we reboot
it it migh
t get up to 7 but that's on a good day, it's a humax pvr -
so could it be the boxes that are more implicated in not picking up a
long term EPG?

Surely you just set-up the automatic search facility on your PVR so it
will find the programs when they enter the EPG time slot - days, months
or years later?


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Chris wrote:
"Moo" wrote in message
...
Last few days I've been getting a few 'program/film to be announced',
but only on BBC 1, I put this down to the sport over the weekend and that
it may alter times etc.

Anyone else having trouble?

My box is a DVR, Thomson DHD4000.

Moo


I have exactly the same problem here (Sutton Coldfield TX), using Sony
SVR-S500. I only ever get 7 day EPG, but am also getting "Program/film to be
announced" on BBC1.

Another annoying problem is that the BBC1 EPG always shows "East Midlands
Today" when it should be "Midlands Today". E Mids is transmitted from
Waltham, not Sutton Coldfield.

Chris


I am also on the Sutton Coldfield TX, perhaps a local problem?

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On Feb 4, 11:23*pm, Moo wrote:
Chris wrote:
"Moo" wrote in message
...
* Last few days I've been getting a few 'program/film to be announced',
but only on BBC 1, I put this down to the sport over the weekend and that
it may alter times etc.

Anyone else having trouble?

My box is a DVR, Thomson DHD4000.

Moo

I have exactly the same problem here (Sutton Coldfield TX), using Sony
SVR-S500. I only ever get 7 day EPG, but am also getting "Program/film to be
announced" on BBC1.

Another annoying problem is that the BBC1 EPG always shows "East Midlands
Today" when it should be "Midlands Today". E Mids is transmitted from
Waltham, not Sutton Coldfield.

Chris

I am also on the Sutton Coldfield TX, perhaps a local problem?

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Not likely. The DHD4000 EPG is transmitted differently than the
Freeview EPG.

DHD4000's download their EPG at 3am every night, and use the channel
five multiplex to receive it. So any problems that you have with the
EPG are unlikely to be mirrored by other machines such as the Humax
which don't use the same EPG.

If you want to check what has been downloaded, you can get to the
engineers menu and turn on logging. To get there you go to the setup
menu, then technical help, and once you are in the technical help menu
type "1004". A new menu will appear, one of the options is logging.
If you leave that on for a couple of days you'll see entries made
overnight which you can scroll through, and which will tell you if the
EPG download has been successful tonight (amongst other more technical
menus).

There is a company called 4TV which produces the EPG for DHD4000s.
I've not been aware of any incidents where the download hasn't been
successful for one or a number of channels. It seems to be an all or
nothing situation.

I would observe that if others who are receiving the Freeview EPG have
"To be announced" showing, as do DHD4000 boxes, then the truth is
likely to be that the programme for that slot is "to be announced"!

Hope that helps Moo!

Matt

larkim wrote:
On Feb 4, 11:23 pm, Moo wrote:
Chris wrote:
"Moo" wrote in message
...
Last few days I've been getting a few 'program/film to be announced',
but only on BBC 1, I put this down to the sport over the weekend and that
it may alter times etc.
Anyone else having trouble?
My box is a DVR, Thomson DHD4000.
Moo
I have exactly the same problem here (Sutton Coldfield TX), using Sony
SVR-S500. I only ever get 7 day EPG, but am also getting "Program/film to be
announced" on BBC1.
Another annoying problem is that the BBC1 EPG always shows "East Midlands
Today" when it should be "Midlands Today". E Mids is transmitted from
Waltham, not Sutton Coldfield.
Chris
I am also on the Sutton Coldfield TX, perhaps a local problem?

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Not likely. The DHD4000 EPG is transmitted differently than the
Freeview EPG.

DHD4000's download their EPG at 3am every night, and use the channel
five multiplex to receive it. So any problems that you have with the
EPG are unlikely to be mirrored by other machines such as the Humax
which don't use the same EPG.

If you want to check what has been downloaded, you can get to the
engineers menu and turn on logging. To get there you go to the setup
menu, then technical help, and once you are in the technical help menu
type "1004". A new menu will appear, one of the options is logging.
If you leave that on for a couple of days you'll see entries made
overnight which you can scroll through, and which will tell you if the
EPG download has been successful tonight (amongst other more technical
menus).

There is a company called 4TV which produces the EPG for DHD4000s.
I've not been aware of any incidents where the download hasn't been
successful for one or a number of channels. It seems to be an all or
nothing situation.

I would observe that if others who are receiving the Freeview EPG have
"To be announced" showing, as do DHD4000 boxes, then the truth is
likely to be that the programme for that slot is "to be announced"!

Hope that helps Moo!

Matt

It was only showing "to be announced" for some of the programs over the
last few days, now (and for the next 14 days of the EPG), it just says
"no programme information" meaning nothing has been downloaded.

It does seem now that the problem isn't exclusive to BBC1 either, having
checked the listings for the 18th Feb, which would have been
downloaded last night, I've getting "to be announced" across the
channels and "no programme information" for ITV1, BBC3, Channel4+1 etc etc.

There's a thread on it he

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...d.php?t=741962

I'm not the only one with the problem.



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Moo wrote:
larkim wrote:
On Feb 4, 11:23 pm, Moo wrote:
Chris wrote:
"Moo" wrote in message
...
Last few days I've been getting a few 'program/film to be
announced',
but only on BBC 1, I put this down to the sport over the weekend
and that
it may alter times etc.
Anyone else having trouble?
My box is a DVR, Thomson DHD4000.
Moo
I have exactly the same problem here (Sutton Coldfield TX), using Sony
SVR-S500. I only ever get 7 day EPG, but am also getting
"Program/film to be
announced" on BBC1.
Another annoying problem is that the BBC1 EPG always shows "East
Midlands
Today" when it should be "Midlands Today". E Mids is transmitted from
Waltham, not Sutton Coldfield.
Chris
I am also on the Sutton Coldfield TX, perhaps a local problem?

--

My blog -http://degeneratemoo.livejournal.com- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Not likely. The DHD4000 EPG is transmitted differently than the
Freeview EPG.

DHD4000's download their EPG at 3am every night, and use the channel
five multiplex to receive it. So any problems that you have with the
EPG are unlikely to be mirrored by other machines such as the Humax
which don't use the same EPG.

If you want to check what has been downloaded, you can get to the
engineers menu and turn on logging. To get there you go to the setup
menu, then technical help, and once you are in the technical help menu
type "1004". A new menu will appear, one of the options is logging.
If you leave that on for a couple of days you'll see entries made
overnight which you can scroll through, and which will tell you if the
EPG download has been successful tonight (amongst other more technical
menus).

There is a company called 4TV which produces the EPG for DHD4000s.
I've not been aware of any incidents where the download hasn't been
successful for one or a number of channels. It seems to be an all or
nothing situation.

I would observe that if others who are receiving the Freeview EPG have
"To be announced" showing, as do DHD4000 boxes, then the truth is
likely to be that the programme for that slot is "to be announced"!

Hope that helps Moo!

Matt

It was only showing "to be announced" for some of the programs over the
last few days, now (and for the next 14 days of the EPG), it just says
"no programme information" meaning nothing has been downloaded.

It does seem now that the problem isn't exclusive to BBC1 either, having
checked the listings for the 18th Feb, which would have been downloaded
last night, I've getting "to be announced" across the channels and "no
programme information" for ITV1, BBC3, Channel4+1 etc etc.

There's a thread on it he

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...d.php?t=741962

I'm not the only one with the problem.



Just to clarify, it's showing "no programme information" for only
certain channels, most of the other channels seem to have downloaded
fine and have a full EPG for them.

I have also turned on logging.



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On Feb 5, 11:48*am, Moo wrote:
Moo wrote:
larkim wrote:
On Feb 4, 11:23 pm, Moo wrote:
Chris wrote:
"Moo" wrote in message
...
* Last few days I've been getting a few 'program/film to be
announced',
but only on BBC 1, I put this down to the sport over the weekend
and that
it may alter times etc.
Anyone else having trouble?
My box is a DVR, Thomson DHD4000.
Moo
I have exactly the same problem here (Sutton Coldfield TX), using Sony
SVR-S500. I only ever get 7 day EPG, but am also getting
"Program/film to be
announced" on BBC1.
Another annoying problem is that the BBC1 EPG always shows "East
Midlands
Today" when it should be "Midlands Today". E Mids is transmitted from
Waltham, not Sutton Coldfield.
Chris
I am also on the Sutton Coldfield TX, perhaps a local problem?

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Not likely. *The DHD4000 EPG is transmitted differently than the
Freeview EPG.

DHD4000's download their EPG at 3am every night, and use the channel
five multiplex to receive it. *So any problems that you have with the
EPG are unlikely to be mirrored by other machines such as the Humax
which don't use the same EPG.

If you want to check what has been downloaded, you can get to the
engineers menu and turn on logging. *To get there you go to the setup
menu, then technical help, and once you are in the technical help menu
type "1004". *A new menu will appear, one of the options is logging.
If you leave that on for a couple of days you'll see entries made
overnight which you can scroll through, and which will tell you if the
EPG download has been successful tonight (amongst other more technical
menus).

There is a company called 4TV which produces the EPG for DHD4000s.
I've not been aware of any incidents where the download hasn't been
successful for one or a number of channels. *It seems to be an all or
nothing situation.

I would observe that if others who are receiving the Freeview EPG have
"To be announced" showing, as do DHD4000 boxes, then the truth is
likely to be that the programme for that slot is "to be announced"!

Hope that helps Moo!

Matt

It was only showing "to be announced" for some of the programs over the
last few days, now (and for the next 14 days of the EPG), it just says
"no programme information" meaning nothing has been downloaded.

It does seem now that the problem isn't exclusive to BBC1 either, having
*checked the listings for the 18th Feb, which would have been downloaded
last night, I've getting "to be announced" across the channels and "no
programme information" for ITV1, BBC3, Channel4+1 etc etc.

There's a thread on it he

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...d.php?t=741962

I'm not the only one with the problem.

Just to clarify, it's showing "no programme information" for only
certain channels, most of the other channels seem to have downloaded
fine and have a full EPG for them.

I have also turned on logging.

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Interesting; it does seem to be Sutton Coldfield related, for all PVRs
that use the old 4TV EPG.

Certainly I've not got the same problem, but I get my tx from Winter
Hill.

Matt