Humax, Freeview & "The Bridge"

Tried recording "The Bridge" from BBC4 HD. Went to watch the first episode last night and discovered that episodes 1-4 failed to record. I've got a "0 minutes" recording for all four episodes.

Oddly, having changed nothing, but having had a little play around to confirm I can actually watch BBC4 HD etc, episode 5 recorded fine last night.

Just me or something up with the guide/Humax?
Paul DS.

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Tried recording "The Bridge" from BBC4 HD. Went to watch the first
episode last night and discovered that episodes 1-4 failed to record.
I've got a "0 minutes" recording for all four episodes.

Oddly, having changed nothing, but having had a little play around to
confirm I can actually watch BBC4 HD etc, episode 5 recorded fine last
night.

Just me or something up with the guide/Humax?

Lots of people are having problems recording BBC3&4 HD on Humax. See
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1922868

Most people are blaming Humax and hoping for a software upgrade.

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Max Demian

Why would they be any different to any other channel? I wondered if it was a
very low signal from those which comes and goes and hence is deemed
unrecordable or something.
I'd have thought with all that tech though, any issues where sd and hd
channels exist it might be expected for it to switch to the sd if the hd was
an issue.
Brian

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Tried recording "The Bridge" from BBC4 HD. Went to watch the first
episode last night and discovered that episodes 1-4 failed to record.
I've got a "0 minutes" recording for all four episodes.

Oddly, having changed nothing, but having had a little play around to
confirm I can actually watch BBC4 HD etc, episode 5 recorded fine last
night.

Just me or something up with the guide/Humax?

Lots of people are having problems recording BBC3&4 HD on Humax. See
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1922868

Most people are blaming Humax and hoping for a software upgrade.

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Max Demian

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Tried recording "The Bridge" from BBC4 HD. Went to watch the first
episode last night and discovered that episodes 1-4 failed to record. I've
got a "0 minutes" recording for all four episodes.

Oddly, having changed nothing, but having had a little play around to
confirm I can actually watch BBC4 HD etc, episode 5 recorded fine last
night.

Just me or something up with the guide/Humax?

Lots of people are having problems recording BBC3&4 HD on Humax. See
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1922868

Most people are blaming Humax and hoping for a software upgrade.

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Max Demian


When was it that you tried to make these recordings? Are you referring to
the first series? My listings show the first and second episodes of the new
series will be shown on BBC4 on Saturday, 4th January 2014.

Alaric

Lots of people are having problems recording BBC3&4 HD on Humax. See
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1922868

Most people are blaming Humax and hoping for a software upgrade.

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Max Demian


Same thing here - 'Don Quixote' ballet on BBC4 HD produced an 0s
recording so obviously there is a serious bug here. Fortunately it's on
iPlayer.

On Fri, 27 Dec 2013 08:28:04 -0800 (PST),
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Tried recording "The Bridge" from BBC4 HD. Went to watch the first episode last night and discovered that episodes 1-4 failed to record. I've got a "0 minutes" recording for all four episodes.

Oddly, having changed nothing, but having had a little play around to confirm I can actually watch BBC4 HD etc, episode 5 recorded fine last night.

Just me or something up with the guide/Humax?
Paul DS.

Still a bit puzzled why this should be different to any other HD
channel. I appreciate the new multiplex is lower power and restricted
coverage, but technically is it any different to the existing HD
multiplex?

I assume the problems will not affect BBC Three HD as this is an
add-on to the existing multiplex.

As an aside, any predictions whether this service will end in 2017(?)
or is this just the initial period of operation?

As a second aside, I get the new multiplex perfectly well at (I think)
40 kW. Does this mean 100 kW is excessive and the power levels of our
transmitters could be reduced in the interests of energy saving?

On Sat, 28 Dec 2013 12:02:30 +0000, Roger Wilmut wrote:

Lots of people are having problems recording BBC3&4 HD on Humax. See
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1922868

Most people are blaming Humax and hoping for a software upgrade.

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Max Demian


Same thing here - 'Don Quixote' ballet on BBC4 HD produced an 0s
recording so obviously there is a serious bug here. Fortunately it's on
iPlayer.

Interesting that it's on BBC4 HD. I've been making some recordings from that
channel (Only Connect and, um, something else) with no trouble. Not tried
BBC3 HD yet.
BTW, this is on Freesat and the OS is the modded one that came out last year
- I waited until the Olympic channels went and then replaced Humax's fix for
those with the mod.
If I remember, I'll try BBC3.
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Peter.
The gods will stay away
whilst religions hold sway

Scott wrote:

Still a bit puzzled why this should be different to any other HD
channel. I appreciate the new multiplex is lower power and restricted
coverage, but technically is it any different to the existing HD
multiplex?


I've got a Humax Freesat box that has the 'uncontrollable sound' fault
on some HD channels but not others.

Bill

On 27/12/2013 16:44, Max Demian wrote:
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Tried recording "The Bridge" from BBC4 HD. Went to watch the first
episode last night and discovered that episodes 1-4 failed to record.
I've got a "0 minutes" recording for all four episodes.

Oddly, having changed nothing, but having had a little play around to
confirm I can actually watch BBC4 HD etc, episode 5 recorded fine last
night.

Just me or something up with the guide/Humax?

Lots of people are having problems recording BBC3&4 HD on Humax. See
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1922868

Most people are blaming Humax and hoping for a software upgrade.

Doh! Wished I'd kept up with the newsgroups over christmas. My
recording of "Bluestone 42" failed with a 0s length.

That DS reference thought it was only BBC3, but someone here reports a
failed recording on BBC4. So is it a great jump to assume it's BBC3,
BBC4, CBBC, and CBeebies, as they timeplex? With several bad recording
reports?

And how about BBC News HD?

Richard

Just found this post on hummy.tv:
http://hummy.tv/forum/threads/bluest...le-feast.4373/

So it may be a last minute cancellation, with it left in the EPG.

I have received a reply from Humax saying they are aware of a problem
with the FREEVIEW HD HDR Fox T2 PVR which they are investigating.

And, on checking, it may be that my 0sec recording of Freesat BBC3HD was
of the first Bluestone 42, which it seems, was replaced at the last
minute because of the death of a soldier in Afghanistan.

How daft is it to give two different platform PVRs similar names?
Freeview = HDR Fox T2
Freesat = Foxsat HDR.

Richard