Clock problem on EPG with RTE....

Skyuser

When I'm watching RTE ONE/TWO on Sky, the clock on the EPG goes back 3 minutes and when I switch over to something else, the clock goes back to normal. Sometimes if I have the channel left on RTE, then it effects Sky+ recordings. Unplugging box doesn't do anything.
Anyone with same problem?

hawthorn

yes I notices something weird too. Last week I had set autoview to RTE 1 at 8pm for Fair City, and something else on different channel at 8.30

On playback I noticed the warning about the programmes about to start came up at 8.27 and then it suddenly jumped to 8.30 and changed channel!!

Which meant I missed the last 4 minute of FC as RTE usually go 1 min over.

On topic of timings, how do RTE and TV3 get away with it? It makes autoview or Sky+ very awkward.
TV3 are the limit. Last week I was watching something supposedly on from 8.30 till 9.00 (Cor St on Monday actually). AS USUAL on TV3 it started at 8.27. I SWEAR by 8.34 were at the ad break (6 mins). The programme was OVER at 8.53
and the next programme started at 8.55. This is ridiculous. And its being done deliberately cos it s every day.

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dmeehan

i think i read somewhere on these boards that tv3 do it on purpose catch viewers of coronation st. early, before they switch over to tv3

bazza

Yeah, I've noticed that time problem too. Though I was going mad, but yeah, same behaviour - time is ok on BBC for example, but switch back to RTE and its approx 2-3 mins out. Does that mean the broadcaster sends the time with the EPG feed? How come the decoder itself doesn't "keep" time?

Gwynston

dmeehan wrote:

i think i read somewhere on these boards that tv3 do it on purpose catch viewers of coronation st. early, before they switch over

Well, if that's their aim, they're feckin eejits :mad:

I've lost count of the number of times my wife has tuned in on the dot at 7:30 only to find she's missed the first few minutes, so she switches over to ITV so that she can watch it from the beginning!

Smart move, TV3... :rolleyes:

JohnC.

hawthorn wrote:

On topic of timings, how do RTE and TV3 get away with it? It makes autoview or Sky+ very awkward.

Am I being stupid? Where is this autoview function? It's the one thing I miss from when I had NTL, but I don't see it anywhere on my Sky+ box.

watty

Select a channel on the Program guide that hasn't started. It will be added to Personal Planner (similar on Digbox or Sky+).

Go into Personal planner and you can change settings of selected programs.

JohnC.

watty wrote:

Select a channel on the Program guide that hasn't started. It will be added to Personal Planner (similar on Digbox or Sky+).

Go into Personal planner and you can change settings of selected programs.

I don't see it. All I see are
Series Link
Delete
A-Z
Viewed
Recorded

I have PVR 3 with the V4 update.

hawthorn

I dont have Sky+ just the basic. But Autoview is there, it means the Sky box will change channels all night if you want it to! As watty says, go to the EPG program guide, select the programme, then there are, I think, 3 buttons. The red one sets it to autoview so it will change to that channel at that time. Not a bad feature for the basic Sky, in fairness.

Mossy Monk

Autoview doesnt exist on Sky+ sadly. stupid Sky. it was a dead handy feature on my old Grundig

watty

It's only Autorecord on Sky+ then? Silly twits. Constantly I feel the User Interface on most gadgets is designed by work experience students.

barrera

Gwynston wrote:

Well, if that's their aim, they're feckin eejits :mad:

I've lost count of the number of times my wife has tuned in on the dot at 7:30 only to find she's missed the first few minutes, so she switches over to ITV so that she can watch it from the beginning!

Smart move, TV3... :rolleyes:

Yeah, it's your wife who's watching Coronation St....;)

RTE do it too - most critically, Lost started a couple of minutes early the other evening. RTE and TV3 simply don't seem to 'manage' their EPG at all, just let it go with the schedule, whereas you'll always see BBC / Sky Sports etc adjusting the listings if programmes are over-running - which ensures you don't miss what you're recording. Given RTE and TV3's appalling inability to stick to their schedules, it is a huge oversight on their part.

xabi

RTE are a bunch of amateurs. I was watching somthing on RTE the other day, cant remeber what, Rugby maybe, anyway, they had a caption on screen for their web address like so: http://www.rte./ie/rugby.

Ulsterman 1690

When I was using a digibox in a multi-sat setup I used to notice the clock oin the box still worked with the dish pointed at Hotbird but could loose anything up to six hours per day (No I dont think it was a timezone thing)

Is the clock function proprietry to $ky or part of the DVB spec. If the former then RTE should get a rap on the knuckles from $ky. Any broadcaster that cant synchonise their clocks with MSF/GBR/GPS are a pretty mickey mouse outfit.

L1011

DVB spec.

Ulsterman 1690

Does the DVB spec specify local time or UTC/GMT + offset

Could one muck up the timings on their Sky Plus box by watching continental channels ?

L1011

Each transponder carries its time data - not each channel and not one over all one. Its UTC they carry IIRC.

Sky+ is going to get its timings off the Sky EPG data transponder, I hope. Shouldn't affect it.

watty

Ulsterman 1690 wrote:

Does the DVB spec specify local time or UTC/GMT + offset

Could one muck up the timings on their Sky Plus box by watching continental channels ?

My FTA box has wrong time after selecting IBA Ch33. It takes a few minutes on BBC1 for it to recover. The Auto view function only works properly if I'm on a station with local time.

BBC World TV on Hotbird runs on CET (=UTC +1 during winter)