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Title: No TV signal
Post by: TheBoy on 13 May 2010, 21:17:25
Our transmitter at Oxford caught fire earlier today.

Not a major issue in itself, as rarely watch anything live, but the media center is going radio rental, non stop pop-ups about unable to record due to no TV signal.


Good job they are all her programmes that are failing to record ;D
Title: Re: No TV signal
Post by: tunnie on 13 May 2010, 21:19:29
No problem with Sky  :P
Title: Re: No TV signal
Post by: TheBoy on 13 May 2010, 21:20:53
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No problem with Sky  :P
Not that you'd notice, what with Sky+'s frequent inability to record whole programmes :P
Title: Re: No TV signal
Post by: Nickbat on 13 May 2010, 21:25:22
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Our transmitter at Oxford caught fire earlier today.

Not a major issue in itself, as rarely watch anything live, but the media center is going radio rental, non stop pop-ups about unable to record due to no TV signal.


Good job they are all her programmes that are failing to record ;D

Domino's delivery boy taken in for questioning. ;) ;D ;D
Title: Re: No TV signal
Post by: MickAP on 13 May 2010, 21:27:01
Our daughter rang earlier, she's having the same problem. She's on the Oxfordshire/Wiltshire border.

Mick
Title: Re: No TV signal
Post by: TheBoy on 13 May 2010, 21:30:47
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Our daughter rang earlier, she's having the same problem. She's on the Oxfordshire/Wiltshire border.

Mick
Yeah, all services from the mains transmitter are off.  Alledgedly fire service has suggested that it may be susceptable to collapse - though that may be local media trying to sensationalise....
Title: Re: No TV signal
Post by: joshwyatt on 13 May 2010, 21:35:15
I wondered what happened, it went off at about 2.30 I think. I've been out this afternoon and evening, and it came back on at 9.05 just in time to watch Have I got news for you.
So it's back working here.
Title: Re: No TV signal
Post by: tunnie on 13 May 2010, 21:49:49
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No problem with Sky  :P
Not that you'd notice, what with Sky+'s frequent inability to record whole programmes :P

Nothing has ever failed to record whole program on either of our boxes  :)
Title: Re: No TV signal
Post by: Debs. on 13 May 2010, 21:52:20
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Our daughter rang earlier, she's having the same problem. She's on the Oxfordshire/Wiltshire border.

Mick
Yeah, all services from the mains transmitter are off.  Alledgedly fire service has suggested that it may be susceptable to collapse - though that may be local media trying to sensationalise....

No, surely not..... ::)

My favourite 'BBC Wales Today' pejorative news quote: "We`re going live to the scene; just how bad is the chaos, Matt?"  ;D
Title: Re: No TV signal
Post by: TheBoy on 13 May 2010, 22:02:33
Looks like its back. Sigh, back to tedious TV programmes about the current political situation :(
Title: Re: No TV signal
Post by: Mr Skrunts on 13 May 2010, 23:57:23
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No problem with Sky  :P

Untill it snow or heavy rains and starts to pixelate oe goes off completely. :-/
Title: Re: No TV signal
Post by: Mr Skrunts on 14 May 2010, 00:00:26
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No problem with Sky  :P
Not that you'd notice, what with Sky+'s frequent inability to record whole programmes :P

Nothing has ever failed to record whole program on either of our boxes  :)

I have add to add 2 mins front and end to try get full recordings and it still cant get it right, this sky system should be better than video plus.  Plenty of room for improvement.
Title: Re: No TV signal
Post by: feeutfo on 14 May 2010, 00:09:25
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No problem with Sky  :P

Untill it snow or heavy rains and starts to pixelate oe goes off completely. :-/
unplug it for 30 seconds, first sign of trouble on ours is it looses the red button logo.
Title: Re: No TV signal
Post by: Mr Skrunts on 14 May 2010, 00:38:54
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No problem with Sky  :P

Untill it snow or heavy rains and starts to pixelate oe goes off completely. :-/
unplug it for 30 seconds, first sign of trouble on ours is it looses the red button logo.

Gonna be fun when the analouge signal is turned off, it's going to be like the 50's where every one gathers round to watch the radio.

Only had Shy HD 11 months had 3 losses of singnal allready, one was overnight.
Title: Re: No TV signal
Post by: Elite Pete on 14 May 2010, 07:18:35
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No problem with Sky  :P
Not that you'd notice, what with Sky+'s frequent inability to record whole programmes :P
And I thought it was just mine that did that :(
Title: Re: No TV signal
Post by: hoofing it on 14 May 2010, 08:56:14
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No problem with Sky  :P
Not that you'd notice, what with Sky+'s frequent inability to record whole programmes :P
And I thought it was just mine that did that :(
ours only seems to part record suicide street(eastenders) ::)
Title: Re: No TV signal
Post by: Chris_H on 14 May 2010, 10:10:04
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No problem with Sky  :P
Not that you'd notice, what with Sky+'s frequent inability to record whole programmes :P
And I thought it was just mine that did that :(
ours only seems to part record suicide street(eastenders) ::)
If you Google the problem you may find out how to make it miss the rest as well!!! :D

To maintain balance (ha ha), the Beeb (presumably) consistently mis-report The One Show on Freeview EPG.  The programme has always started when the TV goes across.

Not that I'm defending Sky you understand. :D
Title: Re: No TV signal
Post by: Mr Skrunts on 14 May 2010, 13:20:24
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No problem with Sky  :P
Not that you'd notice, what with Sky+'s frequent inability to record whole programmes :P
And I thought it was just mine that did that :(
ours only seems to part record suicide street(eastenders) ::)
If you Google the problem you may find out how to make it miss the rest as well!!! :D

To maintain balance (ha ha), the Beeb (presumably) consistently mis-report The One Show on Freeview EPG.  The programme has always started when the TV goes across.

Not that I'm defending Sky you understand. :D

Eastenders allways seems to have started ahead of its time, are the clocks set properly at the BBc or do they just do what they want when they want.
Title: Re: No TV signal
Post by: TheBoy on 14 May 2010, 13:43:37
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No problem with Sky  :P
Not that you'd notice, what with Sky+'s frequent inability to record whole programmes :P
And I thought it was just mine that did that :(
ours only seems to part record suicide street(eastenders) ::)
If you Google the problem you may find out how to make it miss the rest as well!!! :D

To maintain balance (ha ha), the Beeb (presumably) consistently mis-report The One Show on Freeview EPG.  The programme has always started when the TV goes across.

Not that I'm defending Sky you understand. :D
Not sure how good the freeview EPG is for recording accuracy, as Media Center uses a (seemingly very accurate) guide it regularly downloads from the Internet.  Very, very, very rare for it to misrecord or otherwise give grief, virtually all instances have been where there is a last minute change of schedule.
Title: Re: No TV signal
Post by: Chris_H on 14 May 2010, 13:53:37
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No problem with Sky  :P
Not that you'd notice, what with Sky+'s frequent inability to record whole programmes :P
And I thought it was just mine that did that :(
ours only seems to part record suicide street(eastenders) ::)
If you Google the problem you may find out how to make it miss the rest as well!!! :D

To maintain balance (ha ha), the Beeb (presumably) consistently mis-report The One Show on Freeview EPG.  The programme has always started when the TV goes across.

Not that I'm defending Sky you understand. :D
Not sure how good the freeview EPG is for recording accuracy, as Media Center uses a (seemingly very accurate) guide it regularly downloads from the Internet.  Very, very, very rare for it to misrecord or otherwise give grief, virtually all instances have been where there is a last minute change of schedule.
One of the main purposes of EPG is to flag up actual start and end times despite last minute changes to schedules. 

They should be fed with info from the transmission automation systems that most broadcasters now use. 

Internet feeds would need to be based on deals with the broadcasters if they wanted to come close to emulating that.

My current problem is that my PVR takes pleasure in wiping the digital channels from its memory and subsequently, all the series-linked record lists that get built up over the weeks. >:(
Title: Re: No TV signal
Post by: TheBoy on 14 May 2010, 14:08:55
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One of the main purposes of EPG is to flag up actual start and end times despite last minute changes to schedules. 

They should be fed with info from the transmission automation systems that most broadcasters now use. 

Internet feeds would need to be based on deals with the broadcasters if they wanted to come close to emulating that.

My current problem is that my PVR takes pleasure in wiping the digital channels from its memory and subsequently, all the series-linked record lists that get built up over the weeks. >:(
apart from the PDC in the analogue days, yet to see a working one....

MCE only grabs its guide automatically twice a day, iirc, so could never deal with last minute.

From what friends/colleagues have said about their Freeview PVRs (and Sky+ boxes as well), MCE is a damn sight more accurate at getting the whole program...