hi, I'm new to this so please bear with me! our my freeview S7090pvr has lost some channels and won't let us perform some operations in the menu, won't even let us do a factory reset? Any ideas will be greatly appreciated and I sincerely hope I posted this in the right place! Thanks. lesa.
Have you tried a cold reboot? Turn off at the wall, wait about 30 secs then turn on again. Can't guarantee results but quite often works wonders. Have had to do this occasionally when my Panasonic recorder sometimes sees but won't access my home network. Power on restart (from Standby) doesn't fix the problem but a cold start works every time.
thankyou for your reply, we tried to do that but didn't help at all, I've since discovered that the problem is when we record prime and another channel at same time it does it, something to do with how prime is broadcast? ? something like that anyway so thankyou. . lesa
Not sure if it's related to your problem or not, but Prime, Choice and Maori are broadcast differently in that their frequency (or "mux") is more "compressed" than the others because they have tried to squeeze so many channels in. On my system it doesn't like skipping forward or back on those channels and can cause it to freeze.
There are a couple of threads about the issue elsewhere that will explain it in a more technically correct way.
Good luck getting it sorted! Let us know how you go.
hippylesa: thankyou for your reply, we tried to do that but didn't help at all, I've since discovered that the problem is when we record prime and another channel at same time it does it, something to do with how prime is broadcast? ? something like that anyway so thankyou. . lesa
That would be normal and nothing to do with the signal from Prime. If you record two at once then both tuners are in use and you would only be able to watch a third channel if it's on the same mux as those being recorded. Same for all recorders. If you remember back to the days of analogue, if you were recording a channel on a VCR you couldn't watch any other channel as it only had one tuner, so you had to use the TV to watch any other channel. Same applies with digital except with satellite you can't use the TV as it doesn't have a satellite tuner. The only solution is to get a second STB decoder.
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