Black Hole
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I couldn't think of the best place to post this, so here it is as a separate topic.
I've been fooling around with a "new" HDR-FOX I won on eBay (destined for the den and as an experimental machine without disturbing normal operations). At the moment I have it tuned on autoscan, which means I have everything from Mendip (West) and Mynydd Machen (Wales). To check out something from the other place I had a bunch of CBBC and CBeebies (Wales, as it happened) set to record (with AR), and was watching BBC1HD (West) live.
The time passed for a recording to start and the ring had not turned red. Funny, I thought, so I flicked up the EPG to check and then selected the CBBC channel (Wales) - and sure enough the recording started. Oh yes, I thought, and resumed BBC1HD on Wales.
A bit later I was back on West, after my last scheduled recording had started. The time passed for the recording to finish but the ring was still red. Switched back to Wales and the ring turned blue straight away. This is Important, because one would think that if one of the tuners is actively being used to record a programme it should also be monitoring the AR signal on that particular channel to decide when to stop - but apparently it doesn't.
As far as I am concerned this is definite proof that AR signals do not work if the main TV output is sourced from a different region's transmitter. I *think* padding would work, although EPG updates probably would not get through unless the main source is from the same region at the time, and whether the subsequent programme in a series recording will get scheduled is anybody's guess.
I'm not sure how you tell which is the "main" source when the HDR is recording from standby (potentially two channels simultaneously). This would enable us to devise a procedure which might allow multiple region working.
Update: see here - http://hummy.tv/forum/threads/advice-for-tuning-multiple-regions.3429/
I've been fooling around with a "new" HDR-FOX I won on eBay (destined for the den and as an experimental machine without disturbing normal operations). At the moment I have it tuned on autoscan, which means I have everything from Mendip (West) and Mynydd Machen (Wales). To check out something from the other place I had a bunch of CBBC and CBeebies (Wales, as it happened) set to record (with AR), and was watching BBC1HD (West) live.
The time passed for a recording to start and the ring had not turned red. Funny, I thought, so I flicked up the EPG to check and then selected the CBBC channel (Wales) - and sure enough the recording started. Oh yes, I thought, and resumed BBC1HD on Wales.
A bit later I was back on West, after my last scheduled recording had started. The time passed for the recording to finish but the ring was still red. Switched back to Wales and the ring turned blue straight away. This is Important, because one would think that if one of the tuners is actively being used to record a programme it should also be monitoring the AR signal on that particular channel to decide when to stop - but apparently it doesn't.
As far as I am concerned this is definite proof that AR signals do not work if the main TV output is sourced from a different region's transmitter. I *think* padding would work, although EPG updates probably would not get through unless the main source is from the same region at the time, and whether the subsequent programme in a series recording will get scheduled is anybody's guess.
I'm not sure how you tell which is the "main" source when the HDR is recording from standby (potentially two channels simultaneously). This would enable us to devise a procedure which might allow multiple region working.
Update: see here - http://hummy.tv/forum/threads/advice-for-tuning-multiple-regions.3429/
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