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From: Jim Henderson
Date: 18 Aug 2008 13:14:41
Message: <48a9ae01$1@news.povray.org>
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:22:50 +0100, Phil Cook wrote:

>> I wish they'd do that - and a better job of everyone synchronizing
>> their clocks, too.
> 
> The default here is BBC time.

Would that that happened here....

>> Shows that say they start at, say, 9:00 on some channels start as much
>> as 5 minutes later
> 
> Groan just had one programme on the EPG actually scheduled to start 10
> minutes early then normal. Just for this one week mind then it goes back
> to normal.

That's nice....

>> ....My DVR used to have a bug (since
>> fixed, but it was there for a LONG time) where if you adjusted the
>> start/ end times, it would occasionally lock up between 2 and 4 AM. 
>> Actual documented bug in the software.  Took almost 2 years for them to
>> fix it.
> 
> Apparently one bug on mine meant that using the PiP facilty didn't free
> the time shift memory used by it when switched back to one channel. Oh
> and if I use the padding on recording it disables the series link so you
> either have to remember to
> set it manually each time or set up your own repeating slot and
> disengage it from the EPG (which is what happened above)

Ouch...

Jim


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