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#2961483 31-Aug-2022 11:19

They managed to make a good remote but the PVR is just a mishmash of crap firmware cobbled together by an Indian sweat shop.

P.S. Reminds me to deposit in the red bin for collection on Friday.

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#2993291 7-Nov-2022 21:22

Found a glitch with the recording settings. Revisiting "Game of Thrones" on Prime I'm recording it because it's on late.

I lost a big chunk of a recent episode because the previous prog. had drastically overrun it's scheduled time. I tried last weekend to prevent this happening again by selecting Single Timer Record and extending the Stop Time by a very big margin (more than enough to include the following episode and overrun). But what got recorded was the usual preset timing and only the opening credits of the following episode.

Lesson learned, I'll just have to revert to Series Recording and hope the program schedulers do better in the future.

PS I'm hoping that Series 3 onwards will be be made available for free (Like 1 &2).

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#2996080 14-Nov-2022 17:01

You can also set the recording manually, rather than through the guide. That way, you have complete control of what gets recorded and for how long. I use this to set a regular recording of a particular news program, which doesn't have a series link.

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#2996258 14-Nov-2022 21:53

I have found that sometimes, setting a series link, the recorder will record the show twice. Once on say, TV3 & then on TV3 +1, on the same day.

I get around that by setting a manual recording. I think it is to do with sloppy coding by the 'Guide' people.

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#3067763 24-Apr-2023 20:25

I am currently having a problem with recording Newshup At 6.00 on TV3.

Two nights in a row it has not recorded this programme. But tonight decided to record it at 7.00pm on TV3+1.

This is despite the fact that at 5.50pm I checked and the recording was set ready to go at 6.00.

The messages I recieve are of no help in diagnosing this problem.

Can anyone help me get to the bottom of this problem.

Maybe it is not just my problem and others are having the issue also.

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#3067767 24-Apr-2023 20:39

I am having a similar problem with series link on TV1. It records the first program correctly and then most subsequent programs are on +1. It used to do this occasionally, but now it seems to be pretty well every day.

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#3067768 24-Apr-2023 20:48

larknz: I am having a similar problem with series link on TV1. It records the first program correctly and then most subsequent programs are on +1. It used to do this occasionally, but now it seems to be pretty well every day.

I have had the series link issue, but this is not it. There is a definite error message occurring, but it is of no help as I looked through all the possible reasons it could occur.

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#3067770 24-Apr-2023 21:11

Bananabob:

larknz: I am having a similar problem with series link on TV1. It records the first program correctly and then most subsequent programs are on +1. It used to do this occasionally, but now it seems to be pretty well every day.

I have had the series link issue, but this is not it. There is a definite error message occurring, but it is of no help as I looked through all the possible reasons it could occur.

Post the error message.

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#3067774 24-Apr-2023 21:37

theoldfarter:

Post the error message.

If it happens again I will try.

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#3067818 25-Apr-2023 06:53

Bananabob:

I am currently having a problem with recording Newshup At 6.00 on TV3.

Two nights in a row it has not recorded this programme. But tonight decided to record it at 7.00pm on TV3+1.

This is despite the fact that at 5.50pm I checked and the recording was set ready to go at 6.00.

The messages I recieve are of no help in diagnosing this problem.

Can anyone help me get to the bottom of this problem.

Maybe it is not just my problem and others are having the issue also.

I had this the other day too with 6 o clock Newshub. I deleted the recording, switched off, unplugged from the wall, repowered and reset the recording.

I don't know if the unplugging bit is just voodoo but it's working fine now.

The other thing I've suspected is that if I do anything with the recorder in the first couple of minutes of recording, that can make a recording fail. I can understand how that might happen if it momentarily has its hands too full. Maybe it's just more voodoo...

When this has happened before we discovered that the TVNZ site will let you watch the live news from the beginning while it's still running, and you can skip the ads too!

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#3067870 25-Apr-2023 12:37

The random recording on +1 channels for series recording has been a problem for as long as we have owned a Panasonic recorder. Also, a minor change in how the series is set up in the guide seems to stop it recording - e.g. One News at the beginning of each year. Can't say I've ever noticed any sort of error message though.

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#3067877 25-Apr-2023 12:44

I have the random recording for a long time, but recently it seems to have gotten a lot worse.

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#3067881 25-Apr-2023 12:52

The option for series link had also disappeared. However I have just done a power off by unplugging at the wall and it appears that things have come right. We'll have to wait and see.

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#3067998 25-Apr-2023 21:27

Bananabob:

theoldfarter:

Post the error message.

If it happens again I will try.

So it worked tonight. I assume that "the problem" has gone away.

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#3084418 3-Jun-2023 15:17

Series link has stopped working, specifically for TV1 news. Is anyone else having this problem?

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