Humax 9200T problems.

OK all you clever people out there, is there an answer for this one?

Tonight I had the 9200 set to record The Bill at 20:00

When I looked in the recorded programme list it showed 3 recordings of
Something Special on BBC 2 all today's date and timed between 20:00 and
21:00

On playing any of these 3 they are tonight's The Bill

If I ask for program info during playback it tells me it is Doctors and
gives the synopsis for that.

This isn't the first time I've had odd errors in recordings, normally it
forgets to record programs that have been set, this is the weirdest yet
though.


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"Bill" wrote in message
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OK all you clever people out there, is there an answer for this one?

Tonight I had the 9200 set to record The Bill at 20:00

When I looked in the recorded programme list it showed 3 recordings of
Something Special on BBC 2 all today's date and timed between 20:00 and
21:00

On playing any of these 3 they are tonight's The Bill

If I ask for program info during playback it tells me it is Doctors and
gives the synopsis for that.

This isn't the first time I've had odd errors in recordings, normally it
forgets to record programs that have been set, this is the weirdest yet
though.


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Bill


I can only suggest reseting it to factory defaults to see if this helps.

There is a forum on Digital Spy, you could post a question.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/f...splay.php?f=90

In message , JonC
writes

I can only suggest reseting it to factory defaults to see if this helps.

Tried that a couple of times and it appears to behave better for a while
and then slips back into its old erratic ways again.


There is a forum on Digital Spy, you could post a question.

Thanks for that, I'll pop in and take a look and put the question there,
ta.


http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/f...splay.php?f=90



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Bill

Could the file system on the drive be a little screwed?Is there any way to
check this on these beasties?

Brian

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"Bill" wrote in message
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In message , JonC
writes

I can only suggest reseting it to factory defaults to see if this helps.

Tried that a couple of times and it appears to behave better for a while
and then slips back into its old erratic ways again.


There is a forum on Digital Spy, you could post a question.

Thanks for that, I'll pop in and take a look and put the question there,
ta.


http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/f...splay.php?f=90



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Bill

Bill wrote:
OK all you clever people out there, is there an answer for this one?

Tonight I had the 9200 set to record The Bill at 20:00

When I looked in the recorded programme list it showed 3 recordings of
Something Special on BBC 2 all today's date and timed between 20:00 and
21:00

On playing any of these 3 they are tonight's The Bill

If I ask for program info during playback it tells me it is Doctors and
gives the synopsis for that.

This isn't the first time I've had odd errors in recordings, normally it
forgets to record programs that have been set, this is the weirdest yet
though.

Sounds like disk corruption. I've had it before - selecting one
programme will play something different. The only solution was to
reformat the disk (or live with it!). It gets worse when the disk is
full, probably because the dodgy part of the disk is more likely to be
used when free space is low. In bad cases, the programme itself can be
corrupted, with it freezing at certain points (solution there is to
manually jump to a few minutes after the freeze point to skip it - it
may then continue playing paste that point fine). Also, you'll
sometimes see the play clock (so how far you are through the programme)
stop at a particular time, yet continue playing normally.

D

On Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:32:28 +0100, David Hearn
wrote:

Sounds like disk corruption.

More like crap software.

I've had it before - selecting one programme will play something different.
The only solution was to reformat the disk (or live with it!).

Or delete the programme. Sometimes it's decided it wants to delete something
else when you do so though. I know now when it's likely to f* up and make
sure I've watched everything important before risking it.
Switching it off and on again often makes things better, but it can
also make some things completely inaccessible.

Also, you'll sometimes see the play clock (so how far you are through
the programme) stop at a particular time, yet continue playing normally.

Yes, sometimes it reports 1:00:00 for a half hour programme and the counter
is all over the place. Sometimes it does the opposite and the counter runs
at half speed. I've also had seemingly random error factors as well.
When it's in weird mode, often it shows as being at the end of the programme
yet still plays, but won't let you fast forward.
The quote fast forward and rewind speeds don't match anything like reality
once you get above x4 and are different between forwards and backwards.
I don't know how their cretins of software engineers can get something like
this so wrong (actually I probably do). It is pretty fundamental.
My Panasonic never did anything weird like that, it just worked.

To summarise, Humax 9200 = ****e

"David Hearn" wrote in message
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Bill wrote:
OK all you clever people out there, is there an answer for this one?

Tonight I had the 9200 set to record The Bill at 20:00

When I looked in the recorded programme list it showed 3 recordings of
Something Special on BBC 2 all today's date and timed between 20:00 and
21:00

On playing any of these 3 they are tonight's The Bill

If I ask for program info during playback it tells me it is Doctors and
gives the synopsis for that.

This isn't the first time I've had odd errors in recordings, normally it
forgets to record programs that have been set, this is the weirdest yet
though.

Sounds like disk corruption. I've had it before - selecting one programme
will play something different. The only solution was to reformat the disk
(or live with it!). It gets worse when the disk is full, probably because
the dodgy part of the disk is more likely to be used when free space is
low.

More likely just filesystem corruption than something physically wrong with
the disk.

A reformat (losing everything on the disk) is probably needed.

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