We are trying to record 2 of tonight's BBC2 progs via our Panasonic DVR
which was working OK yesterday. When we highlight the progs we want and press ok the screen goes blank and after a few moments whatever channel
we were tuned to comes up. No recording. Does anyone have any info as
to what's happening?
On Thu 10/11/2022 18:15, Torx wrote:
We are trying to record 2 of tonight's BBC2 progs via our Panasonic
DVR which was working OK yesterday. When we highlight the progs we
want and press ok the screen goes blank and after a few moments
whatever channel we were tuned to comes up. No recording. Does anyone
have any info as to what's happening?
Hard disc full or insufficient space?
We are trying to record 2 of tonight's BBC2 progs via our Panasonic DVR
which was working OK yesterday. When we highlight the progs we want and press ok the screen goes blank and after a few moments whatever channel
we were tuned to comes up. No recording. Does anyone have any info as
to what's happening?
On 10/11/2022 18:15, Torx wrote:
We are trying to record 2 of tonight's BBC2 progs via our Panasonic DVR
which was working OK yesterday. When we highlight the progs we want and
press ok the screen goes blank and after a few moments whatever channel
we were tuned to comes up. No recording. Does anyone have any info as
to what's happening?
Just for clarity, are the recordings you are trying to do timed
recordings, or instant recordings?
If the PVR keeps doing this, power it down completely for 10 minutes and
try again. I have a Panasonic PVR which, a few years ago, failed to
record programmes and would not respond to the remote control. I could
only get it working by powering down. Even then, after a few days, the
fault would reappear. I now have a timer set to cut power to the PVR
every day at around 0500 (I am never recording then). It now only plays
up once every 12 months or so, and if it does I pull the mains plug for
10 minutes.
On Thu 10/11/2022 19:46, Jeff Layman wrote:
On 10/11/2022 18:15, Torx wrote:
We are trying to record 2 of tonight's BBC2 progs via our Panasonic DVR
which was working OK yesterday. When we highlight the progs we want and >>> press ok the screen goes blank and after a few moments whatever channel
we were tuned to comes up. No recording. Does anyone have any info as
to what's happening?
Just for clarity, are the recordings you are trying to do timed
recordings, or instant recordings?
If the PVR keeps doing this, power it down completely for 10 minutes
and try again. I have a Panasonic PVR which, a few years ago, failed
to record programmes and would not respond to the remote control. I
could only get it working by powering down. Even then, after a few
days, the fault would reappear. I now have a timer set to cut power to
the PVR every day at around 0500 (I am never recording then). It now
only plays up once every 12 months or so, and if it does I pull the
mains plug for 10 minutes.
Usual thing causing that - and especially on older units - is dried out electrolytic capacitors in and around the power supply. It could also
show itself as problems or flickering of the display.
We are trying to record 2 of tonight's BBC2 progs via our Panasonic DVR
which was working OK yesterday. When we highlight the progs we want and press ok the screen goes blank and after a few moments whatever channel we were tuned to comes up. No recording. Does anyone have any info as to
what's happening?
On Thu 10/11/2022 18:15, Torx wrote:
We are trying to record 2 of tonight's BBC2 progs via our Panasonic DVR
which was working OK yesterday. When we highlight the progs we want and
press ok the screen goes blank and after a few moments whatever channel
we were tuned to comes up. No recording. Does anyone have any info as to
what's happening?
Hard disc full or insufficient space?
On 10/11/2022 18:15, Torx wrote:
We are trying to record 2 of tonight's BBC2 progs via our Panasonic DVR
which was working OK yesterday. When we highlight the progs we want and
press ok the screen goes blank and after a few moments whatever channel
we were tuned to comes up. No recording. Does anyone have any info as
to what's happening?
Just for clarity, are the recordings you are trying to do timed
recordings, or instant recordings?
If the PVR keeps doing this, power it down completely for 10 minutes and
try again. I have a Panasonic PVR which, a few years ago, failed to record programmes and would not respond to the remote control. I could only get
it working by powering down. Even then, after a few days, the fault would reappear. I now have a timer set to cut power to the PVR every day at
around 0500 (I am never recording then). It now only plays up once every
12 months or so, and if it does I pull the mains plug for 10 minutes.
--
Jeff
On Thu 10/11/2022 19:46, Jeff Layman wrote:
On 10/11/2022 18:15, Torx wrote:
We are trying to record 2 of tonight's BBC2 progs via our Panasonic DVR
which was working OK yesterday. When we highlight the progs we want and
press ok the screen goes blank and after a few moments whatever channel
we were tuned to comes up. No recording. Does anyone have any info as
to what's happening?
Just for clarity, are the recordings you are trying to do timed
recordings, or instant recordings?
If the PVR keeps doing this, power it down completely for 10 minutes and
try again. I have a Panasonic PVR which, a few years ago, failed to
record programmes and would not respond to the remote control. I could
only get it working by powering down. Even then, after a few days, the
fault would reappear. I now have a timer set to cut power to the PVR
every day at around 0500 (I am never recording then). It now only plays
up once every 12 months or so, and if it does I pull the mains plug for
10 minutes.
Usual thing causing that - and especially on older units - is dried out electrolytic capacitors in and around the power supply. It could also show itself as problems or flickering of the display.
I think one of the poorest things about Freeview are its guides.
My samsung has slowed down a lot almost to the level of old fashioned teletext in updating the guide. I wonder why there is just not one central guide and everyone uses it, It seems to have different formats depending
on what you have it on, do the set makers just grab data and shove it into their own guide?
do the set makers just grab data and shove it into
their own guide?
On Thu 10/11/2022 19:46, Jeff Layman wrote:
On 10/11/2022 18:15, Torx wrote:
We are trying to record 2 of tonight's BBC2 progs via our Panasonic DVR
which was working OK yesterday. When we highlight the progs we want and >>> press ok the screen goes blank and after a few moments whatever channel
we were tuned to comes up. No recording. Does anyone have any info as
to what's happening?
Just for clarity, are the recordings you are trying to do timed
recordings, or instant recordings?
If the PVR keeps doing this, power it down completely for 10 minutes and
try again. I have a Panasonic PVR which, a few years ago, failed to
record programmes and would not respond to the remote control. I could
only get it working by powering down. Even then, after a few days, the
fault would reappear. I now have a timer set to cut power to the PVR
every day at around 0500 (I am never recording then). It now only plays
up once every 12 months or so, and if it does I pull the mains plug for
10 minutes.
Usual thing causing that - and especially on older units - is dried out electrolytic capacitors in and around the power supply. It could also
show itself as problems or flickering of the display.
Usual thing causing that - and especially on older units - is dried out
electrolytic capacitors in and around the power supply. It could also
show itself as problems or flickering of the display.
Although capacitors are a known issue in older equipment, I' wouldn't
think this PVR old enough for capacitor problems. I got it new 8 years
ago, and it's been having this problem for at least 3 years. I'd have
hoped that Panasonic had used decent capacitors - their own brand? One day I'll open it up again and have a look to see if there's any bulging.
"Jeff Layman" <Jeff@invalid.invalid> wrote in message news:tklieh$rhbt$1@dont-email.me...
Usual thing causing that - and especially on older units - is dried out
electrolytic capacitors in and around the power supply. It could also
show itself as problems or flickering of the display.
Although capacitors are a known issue in older equipment, I' wouldn't
think this PVR old enough for capacitor problems. I got it new 8 years
ago, and it's been having this problem for at least 3 years. I'd have
hoped that Panasonic had used decent capacitors - their own brand? One day >> I'll open it up again and have a look to see if there's any bulging.
We have an old TVonics hard-disc TV recorder which has twice stopped working because of faulty PSUs - first the original PSU that was supplied with the PVR failed, then a replacement (same voltage and current rating 12V/2A) failed a year or so later. The symptom was that although the menus worked,
it couldn't access the disc so there were no recordings. When I listened, there was no sound of the disc spinning up. The voltage at the PSU input reduced from 12V to 8V as soon as the PVR was switched on, probably as the electronics tried to turn the HDD on.
At first I thought the device was totally broken, and I even took the HDD
out to see if I could read the data on the disk. I couldn't: the disk wasn't recognised as a valid filesystem either when connected to a Windows PC (so not FAT/FAT32/exFAT or NTFS) or to a Raspberry Pi (so not ext4 or other Unix-only filesystems). Even if I'd been able to read the filesystem, the format of the video files could have been non-standard (eg not MPG, TS etc with MPEG2 compression), but I never got that far.
the supply voltage and realised I was barking up the wrong tree. As soon as
I found a spare PSU that produced 12V at up to 2A, normal service was resumed.
That PVR became less useful when we got a new TV which doesn't have SCART or other composite video input - and the PVR is too old to have HDMI output. Such is life!
We are trying to record 2 of tonight's BBC2 progs via our Panasonic DVR
which was working OK yesterday. When we highlight the progs we want and press ok the screen goes blank and after a few moments whatever channel
we were tuned to comes up. No recording. Does anyone have any info as
to what's happening?
"Brian Gaff" <brian1gaff@gmail.com> wrote in message news:tkl6m1$qqbp$1@dont-email.me...
I think one of the poorest things about Freeview are its guides.
My samsung has slowed down a lot almost to the level of old fashioned
teletext in updating the guide. I wonder why there is just not one
central guide and everyone uses it, It seems to have different formats
depending on what you have it on, do the set makers just grab data and
shove it into their own guide?
I tend to thing that the over-the-air (OTA) EPG is the definitive one, because that can be changed in an instant if there is a scheduling change. But Radio Times website and Digiguide Windows application use their own listings which are not necessarily the same: not only may they be out of
sync when there is a late-breaking change, but also the programme names
and the programme summary are different text. At the time of the Queen's death, the EPGs were hopelessly out of step with reality. OK, all
previously scheduled programmes were postponed and replaced by tributes
etc. Fair enough. But even the modified OTA EPG listings were out of date: they listed Queen-related programmes that were not shown or were shown at other times than in the EPG. Of the various biographies, I think I managed
to record one completely from details in the OTA EPG: the rest were
delayed so I only got part of each programme. After it had happened
several times, I decided to add an extra hour's padding on the end of each recording... There seems to be a misconception that at times like this, people will put their TV on and watch indefinitely, and that schedules announced in advance (even an hour or so beforehand) don't matter any
more.
Over the past month or so, there was a set of biographical programmes on Channel 5 about various comedy stars (Sid James, Leonard Rossiter,
Penelope Keith, Wendy Craig). These had a variety of titles which all included the person's name but then had free-form text that was relevant
to the person (eg "Penelope Keith: From Margo to The Manor Born"). But Digiguide listed each programme as "The Unforgettable Penelope Keith"
(etc) - and that is a completely different series. So someone took the definitive listing that was provided (from somewhere unknown!) and changed it. Duh!
On Fri, 11 Nov 2022 14:02:04 -0000, "NY" <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:
We have an old TVonics hard-disc TV recorder which has twice stopped working
I think the recorder probably uses a Linux file system.
On 19/11/2022 17:51, Dave W wrote:
On Fri, 11 Nov 2022 14:02:04 -0000, "NY" <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:
We have an old TVonics hard-disc TV recorder which has twice stopped working
...
I think the recorder probably uses a Linux file system.
I expected it to be Linux (eg ext4), given that I couldn't read anything
off the disc when I connected it to a Windows PC (so not (ex)FAT(32) or NTFS). But when I got a Raspberry Pi and connected the disc to that, I
still couldn't see a valid filesystem. Maybe I should have persisted
with every type of Unix filesystem I could think of: as far as I know,
you have to specify an expected filesystem in the mount command and
can't leave that field blank to say "you work it out for yourself".
Whether the video files would have been recognisable even if I'd managed
to read the filesystem is another matter... Sod's Law says they wouldn't
have been TS or MPEG or WTV or DVR-MS format.
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