SD Olympic channel recording

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SD Olympic channel recording

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bellringer65

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We want to record the Olympic channels from the epg in SD not HD to save disk space. Anyone know how? When we do a re-tune all we find are 24 channels, which appear to be the HD versions. How do we find the SD ones?
We can do a manual tune and find all 48 (24 SD and 24 HD) but they do not have an epg to match.
Any thoughts/advice anyone?

| Wed 25 Jul 2012 16:08:52 #1 |
Barry

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Welcome to our Forum

What version of the olympic channels you receive is dependant on whether your unit is SD or HD. There is no way to change this as far as I know.

As you have found you can tune in the SD variants via non freesat mode, but only now and next info is dislayed.

| Wed 25 Jul 2012 16:37:02 #2 |
bellringer65

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Further to this - FreeSat and Humax have now discovered that the Humax boxes will NOT record the Olympic channel transport streams!
A solution is being worked on but it is not known if this can be solved in the next two days.

| Wed 25 Jul 2012 16:57:26 #3 |
grahamlthompson

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bellringer65 - 3 minutes ago »
Further to this - FreeSat and Humax have now discovered that the Humax boxes will NOT record the Olympic channel transport streams!
A solution is being worked on but it is not known if this can be solved in the next two days.

http://myhumax.org/forum/topic/olympic-channel-recordings.

Not tried recording the SD channels, it might be possible using the custom firmware, need to have a play.

| Wed 25 Jul 2012 17:02:53 #4 |
Barry

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Tried SD in Non freesat yesterday, and it recorded fine.

| Wed 25 Jul 2012 17:13:48 #5 |
grahamlthompson

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Barry - 8 minutes ago »
Tried SD in Non freesat yesterday, and it recorded fine.

It's possible that the custom firmware and it's channel editor may let you record these from Freesat mode via the normal epg. Presumably the epg data contains the SD data for SD boxes. For channels that aren't normally in your epg and the data exists but is normally hidden, a fully functioning epg entry is created. eg The version of ITV1-HD you don't have in your epg. I can't check at the moment as the box is recording, Will have a play tommorow.

| Wed 25 Jul 2012 17:27:34 #6 |
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| Wed 25 Jul 2012 18:08:19 #7 |
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It works, A SD epg entry for an Olympic channel
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| Wed 25 Jul 2012 18:11:09 #8 |
grahamlthompson

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We are not alone :-), Echostar owner reporting problems recording as well

| Wed 25 Jul 2012 18:33:42 #9 |
Barry

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grahamlthompson - 12 minutes ago »
We are not alone :-), Echostar owner reporting problems recording as well

That is good? to know.

| Wed 25 Jul 2012 18:46:28 #10 |