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I have set all these for this afternoon and evening
Press guide and and then red Select HD TV and OK
Close the guide and open again you should only see the HD channels with BBC1 – HD at the top.
With BBC one selected – red on current programme
press the right skip button 3 down from power till you see 13:45 until you see
Never Ending Story – Highlight it in Red and press OK, Then press OK on Record
press the return key to go back to the epg. Bottom left of the centre block of keys around OK
Press Down to BBC2-HD Casablanca – Repeat above to set a recording on this. escape to the epg as above
Go down to CH4-HD Set a recording on a Place In the Sun – You can choose record this episode. As an example choose Record whole series as before return to the epg . I won't repeat this bit again
Go down to 5 HD and right to All Creatures Great and Small – Look carefully at this there are two entries in the epg with a small 5 between them. This is known as a split event with the news in between.
Set a recording from the first entry in the usual way.
Notice the series recording we set on A Place In the Sun has one in 5 hrs and 3 others. These are the other episodes that the series recording has found in the 7 day epg that will get recorded later.
Look carefully at the second part it should also have a R recording flag on it.
Go up to BBC 2 -HD and set A very Country Christmas
Go up and set Finding Dory on BBC1 -HD
Repeat until you have set all these
BBC2-HD Motherland Christmas special at 21:00
BBC2 – HD Phantom Thread at 22:00
ITV-HD Knocked up at 22:45
Channel 4 – HD Daddys Home 2 at 22:00
Feel free to add any others you fancy. Bear in mind you will get a different result in the next step
Exit from the epg using the return arrow
Press the schedule button under the coloured dots Voice assist key. Move down to schedule and press OK.
You should see all your recordings listed and how long before they happen.
Mine has a couple before yours.
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Thanks, have set these up, will let you know.
First recording Never Ending Story did not record. BBC pulled the programme to make space for a special report later today.
Hi Graham
Here we are at 1832 hrs
Everything has recorded so far but
A place in the sun and Casablanca
Have recorded but have a camera icon with a cross in it displayed on both entries in the recordings page.
I tried to watch another channel when all three were being recorded and had no problems. No restrictions in channels available this time. Is this because all these programmes are from different or the same mux?
James
Jim104 – 1 min ago »
Hi Graham
Here we are at 1832 hrs
Everything has recorded so far but
A place in the sun and Casablanca
Have recorded but have a camera icon with a cross in it displayed on both entries in the recordings page.
I tried to watch another channel when all three were being recorded and had no problems. No restrictions in channels available this time. Is this because all these programmes are from different or the same mux?
James
Because all the recordings were made from the same Mux. I can’t check at the moment because better half is watching part 2 of All Creatures Great and Small on the Kitchen TV while she cooks my dinner
Just has a quick look. Only Casablanca has the camera icon. It’s a old 4:3 movie so i guess that’s what it means. It plays back OK.
Hi Again Graham
Have briefly quick viewed the recorded programmes all seem to be ok very good HD images,
However the other things I have recorded off of the non HD channels all have sporadic picture breakup and sound drop out which shows its self as large pops and bangs which frighten you to death.
I have checked the signal test facility and all the HD channels have good solid 100 per cent quality at about 70 to 80 signal strength. The non HD channels which I have sampled a few however have a quality that varies constantly between 30/40 per cent upto 100 percent. I am only 10 miles from the transmitter mast so do not understand this variance. Or is there a problem with the tuners in the box.
Have Happy day tomorrow everyone,
James
Jim104 – 2 mins ago »
Hi Again Graham
Have briefly quick viewed the recorded programmes all seem to be ok very good HD images,
However the other things I have recorded off of the non HD channels all have sporadic picture breakup and sound drop out which shows its self as large pops and bangs which frighten you to death.
I have checked the signal test facility and all the HD channels have good solid 100 per cent quality at about 70 to 80 signal strength. The non HD channels which I have sampled a few however have a quality that varies constantly between 30/40 per cent upto 100 percent. I am only 10 miles from the transmitter mast so do not understand this variance. Or is there a problem with the tuners in the box.
Have Happy day tomorrow everyone,
James
That sounds like you have too high a signal level and are overloading the sensitive tuners. Do you have any amplifiers in the system if so remove it and connect the in to the out. Those are exactly the symptoms. You need a variable attenuator to reduce the signal level.
You could fit an aerial splitter if you have one. That will reduce the signal level.
Hi Graham
Have now fitted the attenuator you recommended. Am looking for max signal strength or max quality strength ?
The Quality levels still seem to fluctuate no matter how much attenuation I apply.
Which mux channel should I choose to apply the attenuator too ?
Many thanks again.
Jim104 – 42 mins ago »
Hi Graham
Have now fitted the attenuator you recommended. Am looking for max signal strength or max quality strength ?
The Quality levels still seem to fluctuate no matter how much attenuation I apply.
Which mux channel should I choose to apply the attenuator too ?
Many thanks again.
An attenuator reduces the signal level from the aerial it’s not mux specific. Tune to a channel that is causing issues and display the strength and quality.
Reduce the signal level to a point where the quality starts to fall from 100%. Then increase it a tad.
If you can’t reduce it the signal level must be really high. Are you sure you haven’t got an amplifier somewhere in the setup ? Perhaps a box on the aerial mast.
Hi Graham
There are no amplifiers to the aerial. One channel in particular gives dropout problems its Channel 26. If I tune to it and then go to the settings /channel and broadcast / signal test` its show the signal test screen for tuner 1 but channel 39 ???
The average readings are strength 54 % quality 67 %.
How do I check the actual channel 26 strength.
If I do a manual channel search for chn26 I get a freq of 514000 – DVB-T – 8 MHz with strength of 7% and 0 quality.
Dont understand whats happening here,
James
Jim104 – 10 mins ago »
There are no amplifiers to the aerial. One channel in particular gives dropout problems its Channel 26. If I tune to it and then go to the settings /channel and broadcast / signal test` its show the signal test screen for tuner 1 but channel 39 ???
The average readings are strength 54 % quality 67 %.
How do I check the actual channel 26 strength.
I am not convinced that this a problem with signal strength being too high; could you tell us at least the first part of your post code please?
Jim104 – 30 mins ago »
Hi Graham
There are no amplifiers to the aerial. One channel in particular gives dropout problems its Channel 26. If I tune to it and then go to the settings /channel and broadcast / signal test` its show the signal test screen for tuner 1 but channel 39 ???
The average readings are strength 54 % quality 67 %.
How do I check the actual channel 26 strength.
If I do a manual channel search for chn26 I get a freq of 514000 – DVB-T – 8 MHz with strength of 7% and 0 quality.
Dont understand whats happening here,
James
When you say channel 26 do you mean the TV channel 26 (Yesterday)? The TV channels are broadcast on several multiplexes that also have channel numbers. Yesterday is presumably being broadcast on a multiplex on channel 39.
https://www.freeview.co.uk/corporate/platform-management/channel-listings
Your problem is not that the signal strength is too high. Forget the attenuator. Some posters are obsessed with the possibility that the signal strength is too high.
So Mars
What do you see what the problem is then, I getting totally confused here ….
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