So I was wondering if the FVP4000T’s (proximate) origin down south could be a factor in these seemingly inconsistent timer problems.

Freeview Australia uses a Now and Following system but apparently the info as provided by the broadcasters is unreliable. (http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/computers/gadgets-on-the-go/aussie-broadcasters-are-winning-the-war-of-attrition-against-ad-evasion-20151015-gkaihv.html)

If so, I wonder if the 4Tune has a different default strategy to cope with scheduling changes? Necessitating modification, for the FVP4000T, to adapt to the UK environment. Which might explain why the older Humax Freeview recorders manage C5’s erratic timing better (apparently) than the FVP4000T.

Stephenesque – 23 minutes ago  » 

I too am a fan of Law & Order and other 5USA series and have found exactly the same problem recently. It also appears to be recording all the repeats of the same programmes too.

I have now converted my Channel 5/5USA ‘Series Record’ schedule to a weekly time-slot schedule and will see if that works out as well on the 4000T as is did on my 9200T.

Recording repeated episodes is a typical Channel 5 screw up. They give the same series crid to repeats but give a different program crid. The box is told it’s a different episode so it records it. They used to do this all the time with the Ozzie lunchtime soaps. At long last they seem to have figured out how to properly code these 😯

JohnH77 – 4 hours ago  » 

Graham

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I have set the 5 USA recordings, the programme I found on Thursday is scheduled at 23:00 (presumably it’s the one you are having issues with)

Yes it is. I don’t see how ******* ****** 5 USA could organise a proverbial p*ss up in a brewery, let alone get timing or other EPG stuff correct! (I don’t know why, but I removed the asterisked adjectives which I had used to describe 5 USA.)

The series was called New: Law and Order, and the series recording ended with last week’s episode on Thur 7 January.

The episode on Thur 14 January appears to be the next in the series, but ******* ****** 5 USA has set it up as a completely different programme, now called Law and Order, and with a new series link!!!

I thought the series had ended with the Thur 7 Jan episode because there were no more series linked programmes. But no, it continues …

I can only think it must be total and complete incompetence by 5 USA.

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I know what you mean; the C5 channels can be so frustrating.

Tonight’s 9pm episode of Law & Order SVU says that it is S14Ep13 on the 4000T’s EPG, but doesn’t say that it’s ‘New’. Checking to see if this was in fact a new episode I went to the C5 website where it says that it is episode 11, even though episode 12 was broadcast last week.

The website also says that tonight’s episode was previously broadcast on the 22nd of December!

In this instance the EPG is correct according to IMDB, it is episode 13 and is new, and hopefully my ‘weekly repeat’ schedule will record all of it

Same outcome HDR FOX T2.

Since the results were consistent across three users and a remarkable number of units, it seems likely that the couple of minutes before and after is standard padding and the programme played within its scheduled EPG time and AR adjustments were not needed.

BB – 7 minutes ago  » 

JohnH77 – 30 minutes ago  » 

How difficult can it be to understand that you need to set the START timing mark when the programme starts; and you set the END timing mark when the program ends. Surely even a three year old can grasp the idea?

Why can’t 5 USA get its head round this simple concept!

Surely the program starts when the previous one finishes, and, ipso facto, ends when the next one starts.

It’s the no mans land between, on commercial channels the ads and on BBC the trailers etc for future programmes, that produce variations. ITV generally switch about halfway through the ads – approx 2 minutes) On a satellite box you can watch the now/next epg. Recordings normally start when the broadcaster changes the status (when what is next becomes now) and ends when now changes to what was next.

But the FVP4000T also recorded correctly in this instance. Probably because actual runtimes matched EPG info and AR adjustments did not come into play.