Was watching BBC1 HD on Saturday, and the trail for MOTD before the news
was mute. As was the prog itself. But OK on BBC 1 SD.

Then last night there was a trail for some footie or other and that was
mute too - again BBC1 HD.

Just wondered if my new TV has got some sports filter built in? ;-)

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On 21/09/2015 11:04, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Was watching BBC1 HD on Saturday, and the trail for MOTD before the news
was mute. As was the prog itself. But OK on BBC 1 SD.

Then last night there was a trail for some footie or other and that was
mute too - again BBC1 HD.

Just wondered if my new TV has got some sports filter built in? ;-)

Skype is down since 4.30. am this morning *globally*(apparently?

Great but it needs to replace the video as well with something equally banal
but non sporting.
Terrible trailers for the adult channels perhaps, Side splitting amateur
'tracey' type talking dirty?

Do people actually sign up when they hear these girls?
Gawd elp us all.
Being serious for a moment though. I notice that some bits of content put
on red button often mutes after a few seconds, what is the reason for that?
Maybe they can do this and somebody did it on the on air system.
Another funny is that on most boxes I've used, sometimes certain channels
crash the box. It still works though the AD goes away and the remote no
longer does anything. Pull the plug time.
It seems that the at present dead channel 76 does this if left on for more
than a minute or so. I know its going to be another shopping channel but I
was just seeing what new rubbish the last retune put on.


Brian

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Was watching BBC1 HD on Saturday, and the trail for MOTD before the news
was mute. As was the prog itself. But OK on BBC 1 SD.

Then last night there was a trail for some footie or other and that was
mute too - again BBC1 HD.

Just wondered if my new TV has got some sports filter built in? ;-)

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Dave Plowman London SW
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Great but it needs to replace the video as well with something equally banal
but non sporting.
Terrible trailers for the adult channels perhaps, Side splitting amateur
'tracey' type talking dirty?

Do people actually sign up when they hear these girls?
Gawd elp us all.
Being serious for a moment though. I notice that some bits of content put
on red button often mutes after a few seconds, what is the reason for that?
Maybe they can do this and somebody did it on the on air system.
Another funny is that on most boxes I've used, sometimes certain channels
crash the box. It still works though the AD goes away and the remote no
longer does anything. Pull the plug time.
It seems that the at present dead channel 76 does this if left on for more
than a minute or so. I know its going to be another shopping channel but I
was just seeing what new rubbish the last retune put on.

That's interesting Brian.

Both our PVRs are struggling with collecting the programme guides. Big
chunks missing and generally only 24-36 hours ahead. Mines a Toppy so I
was suspecting another round of failed capacitors but management has a
Humax with the same symptoms. There is a new channel coming (I think) 4
something.

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Tim Lamb wrote:

Both our PVRs are struggling with collecting the programme guides. Big
chunks missing and generally only 24-36 hours ahead. Mines a Toppy so I
was suspecting another round of failed capacitors but management has a
Humax with the same symptoms. There is a new channel coming (I think) 4
something.

It may be circumstantial, but with my Humax, I'm sure that having
selected one of the under-populated channels, when I returned
later the EPG seemed to have filled up somewhat, but thrown away
some of the data from the other channels. :-(

Chris
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Chris J Dixon wrote:
Tim Lamb wrote:


Both our PVRs are struggling with collecting the programme guides. Big
chunks missing and generally only 24-36 hours ahead. Mines a Toppy so I
was suspecting another round of failed capacitors but management has a
Humax with the same symptoms. There is a new channel coming (I think) 4
something.

It may be circumstantial, but with my Humax, I'm sure that having
selected one of the under-populated channels, when I returned
later the EPG seemed to have filled up somewhat, but thrown away
some of the data from the other channels. :-(

Chris

IME no modern TV or PVR with a computer works correctly. The
products are just not tested before being put into production. I blame
young engineers used to MS products which continually fail, who consider
this the norm. The technique of overnight firmware modification simply
adds to the mess, as does the changing of the broadcast standards at
short intervals. We have a range of devices which misbehave in a variety
of manners and it is a real pain having to do a reboot very day when the
thing stops working correctly.