Recording issues on Four/C4

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#76976 9-Feb-2011 08:28

I have a JC Matthews DVR-320T and I've had issues since yesterday setting anything on Four to record. I managed to set up two series recordings on Monday, one for that night and one for Tuesday. The Monday night thing recorded OK, but when I checked on Tuesday the program wasn't going to record. I went to the EPG but trying to add the recording resulted in an error message about being unable to record, and to try again later (Code = -2). Same thing happened with C4. I'm pretty sure TV3 was OK.

I tried to rescan the channel, but that didn't make any difference. Anyone else had similar issues?

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#437130 9-Feb-2011 08:46

On the MagicTV I receive this error:

"This programme cannot be booked at this time. Please try again later.
(code -2)"

Use timer record until they fix it.

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#437132 9-Feb-2011 08:54

i've got the same problem with both my jc matthews and magic tv pvrs.

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#437135 9-Feb-2011 09:09

Unfortunately, JCMatthews can't do timer recording. It was working Monday, so they must've stuffed something up. I can wait, I just have to record manually at the moment.

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#437139 9-Feb-2011 09:18

Could this by any chances related to this other issue: http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=83&topicid=76535 ?

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#437142 9-Feb-2011 09:22

Could be somehow I suppose, but I don't think so. The box works fine for watching, and recording most channels is OK. It's just the newly renamed channels, so I guess it's something to do with that.

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#437143 9-Feb-2011 09:24

What I meant is that Freeview implemented some changes. IT could be that in some boxes it causes self resets, in other boxes it shows up as something different - different software and all.

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#437612 10-Feb-2011 08:52

all back to normal for me, was able to set up a couple of recordings on 4 last night.

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#437650 10-Feb-2011 09:58

Apparently what it means is that the freeview EPG does not have enough information to enable the pvr to record. At least that is the problem with the homecast when it gives that code. It does seem to happen every now and again on almost all channels. If you have a homecast, they recommend to ring them, presumably they will contact freeview and sort it out.

Try Vultr using this link and get us both some credit:

http://www.vultr.com/?ref=7033587-3B

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#438068 10-Feb-2011 23:46

Still not working for me...

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#438072 11-Feb-2011 00:24

If you have a Homecast HT9200DTR, do a factory reset and re-scan your channels. This should fix it. Same may apply for other boxes. It's to do with re-scan of the channels. Not all information was available when the channels went up initially so receivers may have done a partial update.

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