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"Dr Zoidberg" wrote in message
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"tim....." wrote in message
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I lost all my recordings to today because your box (9150T) can't cope with
the clock change.

Odd.
My PVR9200T coped just fine and recorded the Grand Prix correctly.

Are you using auto-padding or accurate recording?

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the first (yes I know this is the problem, but that isn't an excuse)

tim

"Peter Duncanson" wrote in message
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On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:00:19 +0100, "tim....."
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I don't think that's an excuse. I repeat, this is 2008.

???

Your Humax box was an hour out. You are about three months out!

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On Friday I set my HDR to record the F1 (both progs, live and replay)
and it recorded both.


I set my Humax 9200T to record F1 on Friday too and it did the job
perfectly. The EPG said the race coverage started at 5am before the
clock change and thats what the entry in the recording schedule said.
After the clock change the Humax correctly started recording at 6am
which
was when the BBC coverage actually started.



How's the clock on your computer, did that reset itself OK?




Clock on my computer is fine so I'm not sure what your point is.

Let's face it, PC software (notably OS software) developers have had a
good 25 years in which to consider this issue. I'm pretty sure the
problem of DST/GMT adjustments was cracked by Microsoft over 15 years
ago and even earlier on Unix based OSes such as Linux and OpenBSD.

If the PC is booted up at the time of the change, it makes the change
automatically without prompting the user. It is only when the PC was
shutdown during the changeover time that the user (for windows at least)
gets prompted to confirm the time setting change on next boot.

As it happened, both machines (my desktop box and the Notebook) were
booted up at the changeover time -2am, so automatically did so, saving
me from having to deal with the question on the next boot of the desktop
machine (the Notebook has yet to be rebooted). I was quite confident
there wouldn't be a problem over the scheduled start time for that 6am
recording.

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"tim....." wrote in message ...
I lost all my recordings to today because your box (9150T) can't cope with
the clock change.

Odd.
My PVR9200T coped just fine and recorded the Grand Prix correctly.

Are you using auto-padding or accurate recording?



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Alex

"I laugh in the face of danger , then I hide until it goes away"

"tim....." wrote:

"Dr Zoidberg" wrote

My PVR9200T coped just fine and recorded the Grand Prix correctly.
Are you using auto-padding or accurate recording?

the first (yes I know this is the problem, but that isn't an excuse)

I've not noticed the time-corrected recording causing any cropping of
programmes lately, so I'd say it's reasonably safe at the moment. I
certainly think it's safer than padding. Pity Humax PVRs can't do time
correction *and* padding.

A few months back, I did get the beginning or end cropped off some
recordings, and it seemed to me that several minutes could be lost, but
when I was able to re-recorded a repeat of the program, I realised that
this impression was wrong and that only a few seconds were lost and that
there was little of significance in those few seconds. After that, I
accepted a slight cropping of the programmes, but as I said, that hasn't
happened lately.

One annoyance with the 9200T is that I had to delete Fiver and Five USA
from the channel list. If I recorded a programme from Five, it would
often record identical copies of the program from the other channels.
This once caused a weekly clash where I happened to want to record two
programmes at once, but one of those programmes got booted off by an
unwanted repeat from Fiver. I can't actually recall ever watching
anything on Fiver or Five USA, but it is somewhat irritating that I had
to delete them. I don't know what's different about the EPG on Five that
makes it do this because the other four main channels are fine, and
repeats on the higher-numbered channels are only recorded if needed to
resolve a clash. I don't know if other PVRs have this problem with Five.

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Dave Farrance

In article , Tim..... wrote:
I lost all my recordings to today because your box (9150T) can't cope with
the clock change.

Why is it that people just can't get this right? It isn't rocket science!
It's a new mode FFS, you've had six years practice!

My Panasonic is just the same, but I've learnt how to avoid the problem.

I've discovered that it only happens with post-change recordings that are
programmed before the change, and only if I pick them from the handy onscreen
menu.

So I don't. If I enter the times manually, all is well.

I don't know why it works, and such is my frustration with yet another bit of
labour saving gubbins that is so clever it actually makes things more
difficult that I'm beyond caring why it works. It just does.

Rod.
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Dave Farrance wrote:

I've not noticed the time-corrected recording causing any cropping of
programmes lately, so I'd say it's reasonably safe at the moment. I
certainly think it's safer than padding. Pity Humax PVRs can't do time
correction *and* padding.

A few months back, I did get the beginning or end cropped off some
recordings, and it seemed to me that several minutes could be lost, but
when I was able to re-recorded a repeat of the program, I realised that
this impression was wrong and that only a few seconds were lost and that
there was little of significance in those few seconds. After that, I
accepted a slight cropping of the programmes, but as I said, that hasn't
happened lately.

Oh yes it is! Though it did get better for a couple of weeks. At the
moment it is certainly missing the starts.

We are recording all the early morning Time Team on Ch 4, and
Ballykissangel on itv3. Since Sunday the beginning of all these has been
cropped. Though there's tons of ads on the back end of some recordings.

Richard

"Roderick Stewart" wrote in
message .myzen.co.uk...
In article , Tim..... wrote:
I lost all my recordings to today because your box (9150T) can't cope
with
the clock change.

Why is it that people just can't get this right? It isn't rocket
science!
It's a new mode FFS, you've had six years practice!

My Panasonic is just the same, but I've learnt how to avoid the problem.

I've discovered that it only happens with post-change recordings that are
programmed before the change, and only if I pick them from the handy
onscreen
menu.

Yep that's exactly what my digihome did

The hummy is cleverer and fails in a different way. Now that I know, I can
set it to accurate recording if I'm away on holiday/business across a clock
change.

Yesterday was a one-off. I only set these programs to record the day before
because I was out for the whole day and (due to the clock change) had to
leave too early to set it before I went. I won't make that mistake again
:-(

tim

"Dave Farrance" wrote in message ...
"tim....." wrote:

"Dr Zoidberg" wrote

My PVR9200T coped just fine and recorded the Grand Prix correctly.
Are you using auto-padding or accurate recording?

the first (yes I know this is the problem, but that isn't an excuse)

I've not noticed the time-corrected recording causing any cropping of
programmes lately, so I'd say it's reasonably safe at the moment. I
certainly think it's safer than padding. Pity Humax PVRs can't do time
correction *and* padding.

They could pad a few minutes on the end of a recording after the "stop" signal , but it would be considerably more impressive to add a few minutes before a signal that it hasn't yet received.

Not totally impossible , but not easy to do.




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Alex

"I laugh in the face of danger , then I hide until it goes away"

tim..... wrote:
I lost all my recordings to today because your box (9150T) can't cope with
the clock change.

Why is it that people just can't get this right? It isn't rocket science!
It's a new mode FFS, you've had six years practice!

I bet I get the normal patronising response that I should reset to factory
defaults to fix it!

tim

My 9200 worked perfectly, recording everything it was meant to on Sunday.

D