Recent content by BrianL

Yes. Plenty of people. The local TV man says that he has had a few problems with Humax before but this one is a puzzler. He knows of one other with this problem using the same transmitter. The population around here isn't dense enough for the powers that be to be bothered. Thanks anyway. Brian

The odd thing is that until about a month ago, all worked well. There was a re-tune locally recently. Perhaps this all started then, but it seems not to have affected anybody else. It's a mystery, Watson.

Newhaven repeater transmitter.

Thanks Luke. Was told by Humax Help Desk to do all this and they ended up saying that it must be a faulty HDR. It was almost as cheap to buy a new one as to have them pick it up for repairs, so that's what I did. Same problem! Padding works so, that'll have to do for now...

I seem to be able to auto-record after following another member's advice and adding padding to the system, Two minutes on the beginning and end of timing appears to work. Of course, this has taken it off of auto-record via a trip signal from the transmitter and put it on a timer, thus there is...

Yep. Channel 40 @ 40%+, channel 43 @ 50%+ and channel 50 @ 50%+. All channels a@ 100% quality.

Thanks Luke, Already retuned manually. No excessive 800 channels. Tried using padding as suggested by another member. This worked for the next two programmes and I'm waiting for more results before I can see if this is working or not. Failures when HDR is both on and in...

For the last few weeks most of my auto-recordings have failed, with the reason shown as "Cannot track signal". Picture is fine, manual recordings fine. Those few that do record usually fail to stop when the programme has finished and can go on for hours. Signal strength is 50% minimum and...