Pollensa1946 – 1 minute ago  » 

grahamlthompson – 21 minutes ago  » …It may well involve a change to the freesat/freetime epg. Software updates on boxes…

I had hoped for some intelligent explanation of the difficulties instead of words like “it may well”, which do nothing more than suggest you have no idea. As for the rest of your fatuous post, the least said the better.

If mine is fatuous yours is worse. I take it you are supposed to be an Engineer. Most things are possible, if you are prepared to throw enough money at it. As a chartered engineer with many years experience in National Grid planning, there is a financial limit as to how secure you can make any supply network. Would you expect to have two completely independent supplies to your property with no common point of failure. Possible yes, but astronomically expensive. Real engineers make sensible decisions. On the other hand you are not prepared to even consider what may be involved, nor accept that the benefit isn’t worth throwing any sort of money at it. Kind of reflects your attitude which as usual always seems to lack any sort of reality. Rant over. You cannot set series timers from a recording already in progress. Prepared to put money on it not happening with Freeview or Freesat anytime in the near future. Time you accepted the reality of the situation. Suggest to the mods this thread is going nowhere.

A measure of this is clear. This has been the situation since the launch of G2 freesat around 4yrs ago. It’s took rather a long time to generate this rather pointless thread.

Not saying Freesat is perfect, there are other issues I would personally change that we know are possible.

I dislike the boot to the home screen. It’s a minor annoyance but much more so than the topic of this thread.

Software design is a bit like quick setting concrete. Once a design is realised it can be very difficult and expensive to realise changes not originally considered.

Right, I think we have had enough of this, thread closed.