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Just had another happy experience. While watching a channel I pressed the record button. I got a recording from the beginning of the programme – Cool or what
Any body else using the 1000s in Northern Ireland ?
Overall very pleased with my new toy but have noticed 3 niggles, 2 of which I suspect are regional.
1. during initial set-up the box detects my 2 sattelite connections and confirms the signal strength and quality are excellent. However, when I subsequently check the signal via the settings menu it only shows 1 of my connections as having a signal, the other shows non at all. I have conducted a factory reset and got exactly the same results. Is this a glitch unique to me or is anybody else seeing this ?
2. ITV HD is not listed in the EPG, probably due to the Northern Ireland region and my postcode, I think Scotland may be in the same boat ?
3. Only iPlayer – no ITV Player. Issue may be related to (2.) above.
If anybody else can confirm same I’d like to know – just for peace of mind that it’s all probably “coming soon” and not a fault of my box.
Otherwise everything is good !
Regards
John
Just checked mine and like yours only 1 tuner indicates signal. Deffo working with 2 tuners though
At a guess you are correct about postcode. Try an English one and use customise channels to correct 101 and 102 to the regional variants you want. If you want a better class of box look up the postcode for Buck Palace or 10 Downing Street
Should also get you Radio London usefull if you are a footie fan.ITV player is on my box by the way
Mine showed two tunders – I was recording something at the time – perhaps it only shows active tuners?
REPASSAC – 23 hours ago »
Up and running now Graham – what a great picture with very crisp menus. The remote angle of reception is good – a great improvment over the Foxsat.
Just tried an experiment, large black leather armchair about 2ft from box. Pointed remote at back of chair about 6inches from chair so the box is completely screened. It still works, it must output quite a bit of ir power
It works which ever way I point it in the room as well.
EDIT Also works with your hand about 1″ in front of the remote as well, do you think it will burn off paint
grahamlthompson – 21 hours ago »
Just checked mine and like yours only 1 tuner indicates signal. Deffo working with 2 tuners though
At a guess you are correct about postcode. Try an English one and use customise channels to correct 101 and 102 to the regional variants you want. If you want a better class of box look up the postcode for Buck Palace or 10 Downing Street
Should also get you Radio London usefull if you are a footie fan.ITV player is on my box by the way
Thanks – followed your advice about tweeking the region by postcode. Now I have ITV ~HD and ITV Player
Also was able to swap BBC1 London and BBC2 for BBC1NI and BBC2 NI which is great. Only remaining issue is that Ch103 ITV cannot be changed as the option for regional channel swapping only appears for the BBC channels. Also UTV does not have its own Channel No, so looks like will just have to do without for now.Still have the issue of 1 tuner appearing to be active.
Mine also only shows signal on 1 tuner now, but when it was setting up initially it definitely showed good signal on both tuners.
I setup a recording last night and it didn’t seem to record anything. I may have goofed somewhere so I’ll keep testing this.
Also, choosing 1080p gets me a black screen with audio. I have to restart box and hope that it reverts back to 1080i and I get my picture back. My TV fully supports 1080p, so I don’t know what happened there.
I thought my box was faulty, so I bought a replacement unit from John Lewis (Bluewater) yesterday and it has the same problem with showing the missing signal on one of the tuners. Hopefully this is just a software issue.
Overall though, I like the box, it looks good and is very quiet, and the menus are much more responsive than the previous glacial HDR. Lets hope for some rapid software updates to sort out the glitches.
I get the impression that it only shows signal on an active tuner.
Start a recording change channels and look again – you may have to try a few channels to make sure it has to use another tuner.
1080p works find with my TV (Philips) – Very good picture as well.
REPASSAC – 1 hour ago »
I get the impression that it only shows signal on an active tuner.
Start a recording change channels and look again – you may have to try a few channels to make sure it has to use another tuner.
1080p works find with my TV (Philips) – Very good picture as well.
That works, recording BBC1-HD and ITV1-HD both tuners now indicate signal. 1080p is fine with my Sony TV as well
For those in the NI region and miffed at the absence of Freesat channels for ITV & UTV HD, here is some welcome news . . .
I’m not too bothered about the signal indicators as long as the box works, but I’ve now had 2 scheduled recordings that never happened. I noticed the the Standby Mode was set to Power Save,
so I’ve just tried changing it to Normal to see if it makes a difference. I notice that there is now a clock showing on the front display when the box is in standby, which wasn’t there before.
Really, really wanting to like this box.
gambcl – 29 minutes ago »
I’m not too bothered about the signal indicators as long as the box works, but I’ve now had 2 scheduled recordings that never happened. I noticed the the Standby Mode was set to Power Save,
Hope it was not CH4 !!
No problems here at all – do you have good signal strength to the freesat transponder?
gambcl – 35 minutes ago »
I’m not too bothered about the signal indicators as long as the box works, but I’ve now had 2 scheduled recordings that never happened. I noticed the the Standby Mode was set to Power Save,
so I’ve just tried changing it to Normal to see if it makes a difference. I notice that there is now a clock showing on the front display when the box is in standby, which wasn’t there before.
Really, really wanting to like this box.
That’s normal, power saving when enabled saves every possible watt including the clock display to get the sby power to just 0.5W.
If you post which channel and which progamme failed and how you set them we might have a clue what went wrong
)So far not a single recording failure.
I tried to record Strictly Come Dancing (for the misses honest
on BBC One HD.I get a good signal on Freesat, and never had problems with my previous Humax HDR box.
I browsed the Guide, clicked on the show and then selected Record, then Record All Series.
I could see entries appear in the Planned section of Recordings, but it just never actually recorded them. It missed the main show on Sat, and the results show on Sun.
Am I doing something wrong?
I’m going to try a few more now that I’ve changed the Standby Power setting.
gambcl – 34 minutes ago »
I tried to record Strictly Come Dancing (for the misses honest
on BBC One HD.I get a good signal on Freesat, and never had problems with my previous Humax HDR box.
I browsed the Guide, clicked on the show and then selected Record, then Record All Series.
I could see entries appear in the Planned section of Recordings, but it just never actually recorded them. It missed the main show on Sat, and the results show on Sun.
Am I doing something wrong?
I’m going to try a few more now that I’ve changed the Standby Power setting.
Both recorded fine on my box. The sby setting is not relevant (All it does is save you money
) Sounds like you did it correctly, is next weeks episodes now in your recording schedule. You should find this weeks in a folder and clicking on ir should now show both recordings,
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