Re: Freeview BBC 1

Moo wrote:
larkim wrote:
On Feb 4, 11:23 pm, Moo <rodneyl...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Chris wrote:
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Last few days I've been getting a few 'program/film to be announced',
but only on BBC 1, I put this down to the sport over the weekend and that
it may alter times etc.
Anyone else having trouble?
My box is a DVR, Thomson DHD4000.
Moo
I have exactly the same problem here (Sutton Coldfield TX), using Sony
SVR-S500. I only ever get 7 day EPG, but am also getting "Program/film to be
announced" on BBC1.
Another annoying problem is that the BBC1 EPG always shows "East Midlands
Today" when it should be "Midlands Today". E Mids is transmitted from
Waltham, not Sutton Coldfield.
Chris
I am also on the Sutton Coldfield TX, perhaps a local problem?

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Not likely. The DHD4000 EPG is transmitted differently than the
Freeview EPG.

DHD4000's download their EPG at 3am every night, and use the channel
five multiplex to receive it. So any problems that you have with the
EPG are unlikely to be mirrored by other machines such as the Humax
which don't use the same EPG.

If you want to check what has been downloaded, you can get to the
engineers menu and turn on logging. To get there you go to the setup
menu, then technical help, and once you are in the technical help menu
type "1004". A new menu will appear, one of the options is logging.
If you leave that on for a couple of days you'll see entries made
overnight which you can scroll through, and which will tell you if the
EPG download has been successful tonight (amongst other more technical
menus).

There is a company called 4TV which produces the EPG for DHD4000s.
I've not been aware of any incidents where the download hasn't been
successful for one or a number of channels. It seems to be an all or
nothing situation.

I would observe that if others who are receiving the Freeview EPG have
"To be announced" showing, as do DHD4000 boxes, then the truth is
likely to be that the programme for that slot is "to be announced"!

Hope that helps Moo!

Matt

It was only showing "to be announced" for some of the programs over the last few days, now (and for the next 14 days of the EPG), it just says "no programme information" meaning nothing has been downloaded.

It does seem now that the problem isn't exclusive to BBC1 either, having checked the listings for the 18th Feb, which would have been downloaded last night, I've getting "to be announced" across the channels and "no programme information" for ITV1, BBC3, Channel4+1 etc etc.

There's a thread on it here:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=741962

I'm not the only one with the problem.



Just to clarify, it's showing "no programme information" for only certain channels, most of the other channels seem to have downloaded fine and have a full EPG for them.

I have also turned on logging.



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