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A1944 - 14 minutes ago »
Thanks Graham. I hope that it was a one-off, it may never happen again, but I will be very wary with the box for quite a while, especially after the other strange happenings that I have observed.
Next Sundays episode should be in the recording schedule and flagged in the epg. Have you checked it's found the programme ? It's not totally unknown for a broadcaster to change the series crid mid series 
Yes, I can understand how the broadcasters can get things wrong sometimes. No, it did not find next week's episode because it had completely disappeared, not even appearing as "Getting information..." at the bottom of the schedule. I had to reinstate it by reprogramming the whole series again from next Sunday on the EPG.
A classic example. It's possible to display the CRID codes for future recordings, sadly not for ones in the past.
I remember requesting this data was added to the recording, way back in 2008 using the then brand new Foxsat-HDR. Humax responce was a liitle evasive, Basically a broadcaster doesn't want evidence of a screw up available to us mere users. On reflection seems a classic case of evading the freedom of information laws.
Briefly this how it's supposed to work.
The broadcaster supplies a pair of codes.
A series CRID the same for every episode in a series.
A Programme CRID unique to the individual episode.
When you set a series recording the box finds the first event with the same series CRID and a episode CRID that you haven't already recorded.
This means it may be one before the one you set.
Once recorded the epg is scanned for the next entry with the same series CRID but a different programme CRID (avoiding repeat recordings).
Unfortunately broadcasters seem unable to respond to changes to the epg during the constant re-scheduling during major sporting events like Wimbledon (and this year the World Cup).
Whether this is a limitation in the system or a incompetence by the broadcaster I have no idea,
I do think it's worthy of a complaint to OFCOM and the broadcaster involved.
ITV-HD failed miserably with it's two major soaps last week. Both Emmerdale and Corrie failed to record.
I think you ought to re-consider deleting the BBC 1 HD channel as there is only one BBC 1 HD channel in England and numerous SD Regional variants. I know you can't see the others but guessing the CRID codeing is used for satellite as well. This introduces more complication because all BBC-SD regional and BBC-HD nation regions figure in the epg,
Unlike terrestrial you can choose to watch any of them.
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