Hi there. My mother recently bought an HDR-1000S, after her Foxsat HDR broke down, and I'm trying to set it up to be as friendly as possible. But I've run into a problem, and would appreciate any help.
My mother lives in a block of flats with a communal satellite dish, and only has one input (one LNB) available. Since she can't see much difference between SD and HD (and neither can I), I've advised her to stick as far as possible to channels in the "first group", as I call it. That's the band/polarisation combination that includes BBC1 SD, BBC2 SD, ITV1 SD, etc, and omits most of the HD channels. That includes almost all the channels she usually watches, and as long she sticks to that group she can record/watch any combination of those channels.
Unfortunately she has some difficulty remembering to do this, especially with BBC2, where the HD channel is confusingly in the 102 slot, among the main SD channels, and BBC2 SD is out of sequence at 109. With the Foxsat I was able to delete BBC2 HD and other unwanted HD channels, so she wouldn't select those by accident. Deleting the unwanted HD channels also meant she wasn't being unnecessarily asked whether she'd rather record in HD every time she scheduled an SD recording.
I'd like to do the same thing again with the HDR-1000S, but I've run into a problem. After deleting BBC1 HD, for example, I've found she can no longer schedule a recording on BBC1 SD. And ditto with the other channels. Has anyone else found this, and can you think of a solution? (I see that people around here usually want to delete the SD channels, not the HD, so perhaps no one has tried this before.)
By the way, is there a more detailed manual available, as the one supplied with the device doesn't seem to cover everything?
