So three episodes in a row now, I recorded EastEnders on BBC One HD.
When I play any of these episodes, it's just a blank blue screen all
the way through, but the audio is fine.

What makes this even more weird is if I Fast Forward or Rewind it, the
picture FFs or RWs absolutely normally - thus proving that the picture
data is there. But if I then hit play the screen just freezes on the
last picture displayed while FFing or RWing.

All other recordings on other channels have been absolutely fine.

Tried the usual power cycling, planner rebuild, etc. Signals are at
90%, quality at 100% on both inputs.

Any ideas what that's about?

--
Vincent

Vincent wrote:
So three episodes in a row now, I recorded EastEnders on BBC One HD.
When I play any of these episodes, it's just a blank blue screen all
the way through, but the audio is fine.

What makes this even more weird is if I Fast Forward or Rewind it, the
picture FFs or RWs absolutely normally - thus proving that the picture
data is there. But if I then hit play the screen just freezes on the
last picture displayed while FFing or RWing.

All other recordings on other channels have been absolutely fine.

Tried the usual power cycling, planner rebuild, etc. Signals are at
90%, quality at 100% on both inputs.

Any ideas what that's about?


Try a new HDMI lead.

--
Adrian

"Vincent" wrote in message
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So three episodes in a row now, I recorded EastEnders on BBC One HD.
When I play any of these episodes, it's just a blank blue screen all
the way through, but the audio is fine.

What makes this even more weird is if I Fast Forward or Rewind it, the
picture FFs or RWs absolutely normally - thus proving that the picture
data is there. But if I then hit play the screen just freezes on the
last picture displayed while FFing or RWing.

All other recordings on other channels have been absolutely fine.

Tried the usual power cycling, planner rebuild, etc. Signals are at
90%, quality at 100% on both inputs.

Any ideas what that's about?


Remove the viewing card and give it a clean, just use a paper towel, also
take out the sat dish cables out and put them back in...

Also, have you had any strong wind? The dish could be out of alignment...

On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:18:19 +0000, Adrian wrote:

Vincent wrote:
So three episodes in a row now, I recorded EastEnders on BBC One HD.
When I play any of these episodes, it's just a blank blue screen all
the way through, but the audio is fine.

What makes this even more weird is if I Fast Forward or Rewind it, the
picture FFs or RWs absolutely normally - thus proving that the picture
data is there. But if I then hit play the screen just freezes on the
last picture displayed while FFing or RWing.

All other recordings on other channels have been absolutely fine.

Tried the usual power cycling, planner rebuild, etc. Signals are at
90%, quality at 100% on both inputs.

Any ideas what that's about?


Try a new HDMI lead.

It's not that. The spinning play icon displays fine, as does the
show's information and now+next bar.

--
Vincent

On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:21:35 -0000, "slap dash"
wrote:


"Vincent" wrote in message
.. .
So three episodes in a row now, I recorded EastEnders on BBC One HD.
When I play any of these episodes, it's just a blank blue screen all
the way through, but the audio is fine.

What makes this even more weird is if I Fast Forward or Rewind it, the
picture FFs or RWs absolutely normally - thus proving that the picture
data is there. But if I then hit play the screen just freezes on the
last picture displayed while FFing or RWing.

All other recordings on other channels have been absolutely fine.

Tried the usual power cycling, planner rebuild, etc. Signals are at
90%, quality at 100% on both inputs.

Any ideas what that's about?


Remove the viewing card and give it a clean, just use a paper towel, also
take out the sat dish cables out and put them back in...

Also, have you had any strong wind? The dish could be out of alignment...

Thanks.

I tried that, but this evening's recording still had the same problem


Dish is in perfect alignment - checked it myself this morning with an
alignment meter on both feeds. This is backed up (at least on one
transponder) by the 90% signal and 100% quality shown on the Sky box.

The thing is though - the data is there absolutely fine, because if
you FF or RW it, even at 2 speed, you can see it's all there in
perfect quality. If you pause it the displayed picture is flawless.
The sound is also there in perfect quality even on play.

Something else is interesting... When the BBC did their Comic Relief
night, the first attempt at playing the EastEnders segment played with
just a blue screen. You clearly saw this on the big screen that the
audience would watch as they cut into it and out of it. They realised
there was a problem and postponed that segment until later. It seems
it's not just me that has the problem but the BBC themselves did too.

Why just EastEnders too? Other shows recorded on BBC One HD are
absolutely fine. Yet it happened again tonight...

Very confusing.

--
Vincent

"Vincent" wrote in message
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On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:21:35 -0000, "slap dash"
wrote:


"Vincent" wrote in message
. ..
So three episodes in a row now, I recorded EastEnders on BBC One HD.
When I play any of these episodes, it's just a blank blue screen all
the way through, but the audio is fine.

What makes this even more weird is if I Fast Forward or Rewind it, the
picture FFs or RWs absolutely normally - thus proving that the picture
data is there. But if I then hit play the screen just freezes on the
last picture displayed while FFing or RWing.

All other recordings on other channels have been absolutely fine.

Tried the usual power cycling, planner rebuild, etc. Signals are at
90%, quality at 100% on both inputs.

Any ideas what that's about?


Remove the viewing card and give it a clean, just use a paper towel, also
take out the sat dish cables out and put them back in...

Also, have you had any strong wind? The dish could be out of alignment...

Thanks.

I tried that, but this evening's recording still had the same problem


Dish is in perfect alignment - checked it myself this morning with an
alignment meter on both feeds. This is backed up (at least on one
transponder) by the 90% signal and 100% quality shown on the Sky box.

The thing is though - the data is there absolutely fine, because if
you FF or RW it, even at 2 speed, you can see it's all there in
perfect quality. If you pause it the displayed picture is flawless.
The sound is also there in perfect quality even on play.

Something else is interesting... When the BBC did their Comic Relief
night, the first attempt at playing the EastEnders segment played with
just a blue screen. You clearly saw this on the big screen that the
audience would watch as they cut into it and out of it. They realised
there was a problem and postponed that segment until later. It seems
it's not just me that has the problem but the BBC themselves did too.

Why just EastEnders too? Other shows recorded on BBC One HD are
absolutely fine. Yet it happened again tonight...

It's not just Eastenders and it's not just BBC and it's not just HD. We have
a standard Sky+ box and it does this occasionally on various
channels/programmes. I've rung Sky a few times but can't make the droids
understand - well, it IS rather odd isn't it? I'm just so glad that someone
else has experienced it - if you ever find out what it is, please post it
here!!! :-)

your Sky Box has some taste as Eastenders is the biggest pile of poo



On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 12:32:41 +0000, Vincent
wrote:

So three episodes in a row now, I recorded EastEnders on BBC One HD.
When I play any of these episodes, it's just a blank blue screen all
the way through, but the audio is fine.

What makes this even more weird is if I Fast Forward or Rewind it, the
picture FFs or RWs absolutely normally - thus proving that the picture
data is there. But if I then hit play the screen just freezes on the
last picture displayed while FFing or RWing.

All other recordings on other channels have been absolutely fine.

Tried the usual power cycling, planner rebuild, etc. Signals are at
90%, quality at 100% on both inputs.

Any ideas what that's about?