Sony DHG-HDD250/500: Official Thread - Page 910

Originally Posted by cxgy 

All this talk about inter-connectivity between devices - and yet we can't even get TV program data or the current time (!!!) into a DVR. Ridiculous. Trying to plan what to watch on TV a few days ahead is such a chore these days. It was easier when we had a paper TV Guide. Progress?

P.S. - My 1988 JVC VCR sitting beside me has the current date & time.

Originally Posted by JoeKustra 

The DHG is not the only DVR on the planet. You have options.

Originally Posted by cablenest 

Yesterday, when I had had no listings (Los Angeles area) in the grid for a couple (few?) days, the power went out. When I turned the DHG on after about ten minutes, the face panel clock was not set. So, sort of like for old times sake, I tuned to 2.1 (CBS digital Los Angeles area), ran the 9012 G* Factory Test, and put the DHG in standby. In about a minute it had the correct time and date, same as always. Now the TVGOS downloads only occurred every so often, and took a while, and would not have been just the time over and over. So I am supposing that with or without TVGOS, the DHG was getting, can still get, the time from PSIP infromation, at least from a reliable station in the area. Of course, this may not be how it really works; perhaps the local CBS station still has the inserter woking, just without any listing information being sent. Would anyone want to try this in an area where the TVGOS, including inserter, is totally, reliably gone?

Originally Posted by HoustonPerson 

If the so called “solution” (if there is one), is to leave the “inserters” in place for date and time; then that will work for me. Using the Sony as a “third” tuner is ok. Of course all my recorded shows are “unknown” LOL

Originally Posted by HoustonPerson 

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Life with TiVo is interesting. It could be a lot better; for example the current fight between Time Warner (the only super high priced service $100/mo. in Dallas) and Netflix only frustrates me with the TiVo – so much for streaming ugh!
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Originally Posted by cablenest 

So, sort of like for old times sake, I tuned to 2.1 (CBS digital Los Angeles area), ran the 9012 G* Factory Test, and put the DHG in standby. In about a minute it had the correct time and date, same as always.

Originally Posted by mabuttra 

Netflix is crap on the TiVo. I stream Netflix from my panasonic blu-ray player. There are occasional black flashes (less than 1 second) that can sometimes occur once or twice during a movie when the bandwidth requirements change. A few people have dumped these panasonic players because of these occasional glitches, they obviously have never watched Netflix on a TiVo. I couldn't even watch 5 minutes of a movie on the TiVo, there were several audio/video dropouts that were lasting 4 - 6 seconds each. The audio would come back about 2 seconds before the video. After 5 minutes, I stopped watching on the TiVo, and went back to the panasonic, and finished watching the movie without a glitch.

Mark

Originally Posted by Possumgirl 

Interesting. I also have a Panny BD player complete with black flashes when bandwidth fluctuates. I notice TiVo and the BD player use the same UI and, for me, the performance seems about the same on both streamers. If one is bad, so is the other. My Panny TV performs much better but it only supports stereo and (I think) 720P.

Originally Posted by FanofHD 

Can someone tell me how to manually set the clock, fortunately I have never had to do this but someone said there was a way to do it and it was posted on this thread but I don't know how to find it. I can't use that link from Sony cause I don't have Android.

My clock was off 23 mins, then my system restarted on it's own the other day and then it changed to 53 or so minutes. So today I did a front panel reset and waited to turn it on 10 or so mins and then when I turned it on, it's now 1 hr 25 mins behind. If there is a way to do a FPR at a certain time of day just to get my clock to show the correct time, I would be willing to get up at 2:00 in the morning to do another FPR if that would work. lol

Originally Posted by FanofHD 

No hurt in saving people some time searching 27,286 posts.
I found it, it's post #26312 on 1-16-13 by poster Izzy900
How to set clock

Will try and see if this works for me.

Originally Posted by mabuttra 

Here is the link to that post. Of course they seem to keep changing their method of doing this, which is why it is difficult to give a clear cut answer about how to do it. I'd definitely use the front panel reset method for awhile (and avoid any major reset methods), since you still have a clock that is close to the actual time.

Originally Posted by cxgy 

All this talk about inter-connectivity between devices - and yet we can't even get TV program data or the current time (!!!) into a DVR. Ridiculous. Trying to plan what to watch on TV a few days ahead is such a chore these days. It was easier when we had a paper TV Guide. Progress?

P.S. - My 1988 JVC VCR sitting beside me has the current date & time.

Originally Posted by FanofHD 

I also noticed that although my clock is now correct the machine thinks its yesterday's date. I guess that doesn't really matter since I have no listings anyway. If I use the grid to set recordings at each 30 min interval I should still captured programs ok.

Originally Posted by JoeKustra 

When power is removed the clock stops. That means the date also. A word of caution: manual recordings that are "daily" are M-F only. So Day-Of-Week matters.

You can use the "no listing" and add up to three hours to the end time.

Originally Posted by FanofHD 

All this manual recording stuff gets a bit confusing when the Sony thinks its yesterday when it's really today. When I use the set up manual recordings option I need to say its 1 day behind the date the program actually is due to come on. I went to use the grid last night to record a program and the recorder did not come on when it reached that time then I realized it thinks its yesterday and not today.

I wish they would just start transmitting guide data again.

Originally Posted by FanofHD 

All this manual recording stuff gets a bit confusing when the Sony thinks its yesterday when it's really today. When I use the set up manual recordings option I need to say its 1 day behind the date the program actually is due to come on. I went to use the grid last night to record a program and the recorder did not come on when it reached that time then I realized it thinks its yesterday and not today.

I wish they would just start transmitting guide data again.

Originally Posted by KerryNY 

It sounds like you are almost ready to go over to the dark side. Well, there are at least two dark sides, really: Jump ship and get a TiVo, or join the those of us who reset our clocks to Thursday, 01/01/04 at 12:00 Midnight. Since you still have a grid and (I think) a front panel clock, you probably should wait until more people have tested reset codes from that state, however. Or wait to see if you can adjust yourself to remember your time offset (sticky notes help!).

- Kerry