Owen Smith – 1 week ago  » 

There’s a theory I’ve seen somewhere (I thought it was here?) that the new HD channels will only record if after your most recent retune you’ve watched them live and set an instant recording and/or live paused them. This seems to have some merit, BBC 3 and 4 HD have been fine for me but I wathed them and instant recorded them when I first tuned them in.

Now I’ve had my first failed 0 sec recording, of Shaun the Sheep on CBBC HD, which I have never watched live or instant recorded or paused. So tomorrow when the childrens channels are broadcasting I’ll cycle through the new HD ones pausing and live recording them.

Also if you retune you go back to square one and the new HD channels don’t record again. Apparently. So stop retuning until this is sorted out. I very rarely retune (annually usually) so that may explain my stability.

Why this need to tune and pause and record only applies to the new BBC HD channels and not any other channels is weird. It may be a clue to what the bug is in the software.

Very nice tip. I had tried recording BBC 4 HD about four times with absolutely no success. I tried pausing the live broadcast and it refused to work. I then tried a direct record and that worked fine. After I had checked the direct recording and then deleted it I tried the live pause again and it worked this time. I then set a timed recording and it recorded successfully. I have a HDR-2000T.