Latest… one of the programmes I have on weekly record is Casualty, on Saturday night. Tomorrow the TV Guide on Humax is coming up like this, with a kind of “phantom” second Casualty immediately after the first. Just for the sake of it, I decided to record it too, but got the “conflict” message.

For comparison, I include the same time of the evening on my Freeview box – seems, for this one at least, it’s a Freesat-only problem.

Sorry about the crap picture quality

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BBC still seem to be doing interesting things. Scanning for the new series of Fleabag (starting Monday 4th) shows a number of variations of start time and length depending on channel.

BBC One HD has the progamme staring at 22:35 and lasting 50 minutes, while BBC One East Midlands has it starting at 22:50 and lasting 10 minutes.

None of the channels has it as a series.

Hogweed – 2 days ago  » 

Just noticed that my Freeview box has taken to recording 2 copies of things on BBC1 NI HD. I have no idea why it’s doing this, but assume it’s to do with the problems we’re having on Freesat.

Now you can from the pic that both copies are recording from the same channel, rather than maybe one on BBC Scotland or something. I can only assume that maybe the Beeb are transmitting 2 separate CRIDs or something???

PS I’m in N Ireland now, so use BBC1 NI HD rather than plain old BBC1 HD – but have had similar problems in the past when living in England.

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It’s either down to the way the BBC have coded the series or that the NI version is showing a different episode (Only applies to Freesat Kit) . This sometimes happens when a programme of local interest is shown meaning that NI is a week behind the English version.

You can display the CRID’s in the programme info. If you do this post the results. This will usually reveal the cause of the issue. There should be at least two codes. A Series CRID and a Programme CRID.

How to on a G2 Box

Foxsat-HDR owners with the Custom firmware will find the CRID’s in the WeBif info

The CRIDS can be shown on a FVP box or a HDR-FOX-T2. (HDR-FOX-T2 with CF have the info in the Webif,

If you have a FVP box post for instructions.

Settings – System Info

Press Red Green Yellow Blue to to display the hidden settings

Change Display CRID to enable. Change Debug Mode to enable

grahamlthompson – 9 minutes ago  » 

Image of Display with CRID’s on G2 Freesat box.

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Really sorry, but I got a bit mixed up with my posts – that photo above is of my Panasonic Freeview EPG, not the Humax Freesat. I’ve mentioned it a few times to show that there seems to be a problem which is not confined to Freesat, though it does sometimes manifest itself differently between the two boxes.

But if you look at the pic, you’ll see that both recordings are BBC1 NI, neither of them is BBC1 England…

Hhmmm, getting very confusing. Didn’t understand all that stuff about the CRIDs etc at all. My box is a HDR-1000s.

Anyway, it’s kind of academic, isn’t it – nothing we can do about it till the Beeb get their act together.

Thanks for all that, Graham, but it’s all getting to be too much of a pain now. I think I’ll just catch anything I’ve missed on iPlayer, and hope they fix it before too long…

grahamlthompson – 22 hours ago  » 

The Lunchtime Bargain Hunt is recording twice on BBC1 – HD England and and on BBC1- HD Scotland (same episode).

Wanted Down Under Re-visited is now doing the same.

grahamlthompson – 2 minutes ago  » 

I have reported above to the BBC

I’m sure they’re REALLY listening

Mine still misses the beginnings of some recordings as well as the ends – can’t be bothered to keep monitoring which ones etc any more I’m afraid. The series recording problem seems to have been resolved though… till the next time…