Chorus MMDS decoder problem

JackieChan

Hi,
I've moved from Galway to the midlands and in the process moved from NTL digital to Chorus MMDS.
I must say that the NTL set up is far better. Channel swapping is very quick on NTL. Although I do prefer the quide on Chorus.

I only got it installed yesterday and started fiddling about with it last night.
There was some option to record and I pressed it. The display on the decoder said REC but I could not stop it. No button on the remote functioned(although decoder light did flash to show that it knew I was pressing a button). I turned off the unit and when I repowered it returned to REC.
I left the unit plugged out last night and it seemed to be ok today.

Does anybody know anything about this feature.
JC

jimbob

I think its like a video timer.
So say you want to set a program to record.
You just set the time channel etc.
Then you set your video timer to the same time etc..

So if you are away you can set some programs on different channels to be recorded.
It wont allow you change the channel during recording.
I hope this helps.

If you have a widescreen TV, you might want to turn on the widescreeen option.
I always thought Chorus didn't have widescreen, until I found the option one day, about five months after getting it.

Its in the tv and video installation. 16:9 or 4:3.
Its brilliant cause you get to see the parts that are cut off on a 4:3 telly.

JackieChan

What I dont understand is the fact that I could not stop the recording!
No button on the remote worked. I had to leave it to record.
Next question, where did it record it to?

jimbob

It didn't read my thread again.
you record it to your video.

chorus techy

Sorry to drag this old thread up, but it may help others in the future - the problem was, as mentioned, that you had a recording set. So as to prevent you from accidentally changing the channel with a recording set, the box locks itself up completely and will not let you do anything. This is what happened to yourself. If you DO manage to set a recording accidentally, the procedure is simple enough to cancel it.

1. Depending on your STB version, and remote version, press and hold down either the "Menu" button or "Setup" button on the REMOTE.
2. Keep this held for AT LEAST 10 seconds, at which stage the decoder will unlock.
3. You may need to reboot the box.

Hope this helps...

channelsurfer

just a question for chorus techy . My Brother has chorus digital mmds but the one thing I find very frustrating compared to sky is that when you change to widescreen everytime the box is turned off or left without power it defaults back to 4:3 whereas sky does not. Is this a decoder box problem or is it the way chorus set it. also any word on the cable digital been rolled out to the midlands?

chorus techy

First of all - cable digital?! You must be joking! They can't even get the places they do have cabled working - I was told that they were starting to install people on digital MMDS even though there was cable in the area, because it was so poor.

And I've never heard of that happening before. Do you mean that when the box is removed from the power supply, and then powered back up, it defaults, or is it just when you simply put it into standby, and then power it back up?

channelsurfer

Sorry I mean when the power is removed from the main socket. The brother switches off the power supply at night time and the next morning it is gone back to 4:3 It always happens never stays in 16:9 I have to change it for him because he dosent really care if its 4 3 or not.

ravenhead

chorus techy wrote:

First of all - cable digital?! You must be joking! They can't even get the places they do have cabled working - I was told that they were starting to install people on digital MMDS even though there was cable in the area, because it was so poor.

I don't know where you heard this but it's not true, first off digital MMDS is the first digital that chorus used, areas such as cork, thurles, clonmel, kilkenny, malahide, naas, kildare etc have all been upgraded to fibreoptic cabling to support the digital system & they are all on line perfectly with a STB called QAM.!!!! Me thinks that you're info is very old!!

ravenhead

channelsurfer wrote:

Sorry I mean when the power is removed from the main socket. The brother switches off the power supply at night time and the next morning it is gone back to 4:3 It always happens never stays in 16:9 I have to change it for him because he dosent really care if its 4 3 or not.

The STB will reboot it's functions when it's completely powered down, just leave it on standby - it won't reboot. - Hope this helps..

chorus techy

ravenhead wrote:

I don't know where you heard this but it's not true, first off digital MMDS is the first digital that chorus used, areas such as cork, thurles, clonmel, kilkenny, malahide, naas, kildare etc have all been upgraded to fibreoptic cabling to support the digital system & they are all on line perfectly with a STB called QAM.!!!! Me thinks that you're info is very old!!

Yeah, haven't had experience with the digital cable network for a good while now. But I doubt very much that they intend to expand the network countrywide (in relation to their frachise area). And, the older Sagem models do tend to reset after removing the power from the mains - I believe this is a software fault (a lot of the older boxes seem to have huge bugs in their software).