H
HelenS
Guest
...here's the solution! Apologies if anybody else has given this advice at the end of a long thread - I felt impulsively helpful. (Apologies if this posts twice, the interface went a bit odd on me).
Some of you Panasonic owners may have noticed, like me, that the EH60D or ES20D (and all other Panasonics plus many other makes) failed to notice the time change today, despite being on "auto set" for their clocks. This was because BBC's CEEFAX forgot to change until quite late in the day, and that's where most of the clocks are set from.
However, when CEEFAX did change, most of the models except ours corrected themselves. Ours stayed wrong, along with their EPGs. Even running auto setup for the whole recorder would not correct it - (i.e. as if you were just unpacking a freshly purchased unit and setting it up). What that does do, of course, is jumble up any alterations you'd made to channel order, and lose any profiles you'd set for the EPG. What to do?
The answer: don't do an auto setup; instead, go into functions, setup and disable "Quick Start" under "Others" by setting it to OFF. Switch off the recorder in the usual way with the remote. Wait several minutes and switch it back on. Incidentally that takes *ages* without Quick Start! The clock problem and the EPG then come right. Pop back into Functions and set Quick Start back to ON.
The act of switching off Quick Start temporarily empties the machine's cache, where it was tenaciously hanging on to its wrong-timed EPG and setting the clock from that. Obviously after it's switched on it needs to download all of the new EPG, which takes some minutes - just leave it on a Freeview channel and it should make it.
I hope that helps someone. This step should be useful for getting the EPG updated with the new Sky channel replacing Sky Travel too, as the Panasonic EPG does tend to resist such changes due to its cached nature.
Some of you Panasonic owners may have noticed, like me, that the EH60D or ES20D (and all other Panasonics plus many other makes) failed to notice the time change today, despite being on "auto set" for their clocks. This was because BBC's CEEFAX forgot to change until quite late in the day, and that's where most of the clocks are set from.
However, when CEEFAX did change, most of the models except ours corrected themselves. Ours stayed wrong, along with their EPGs. Even running auto setup for the whole recorder would not correct it - (i.e. as if you were just unpacking a freshly purchased unit and setting it up). What that does do, of course, is jumble up any alterations you'd made to channel order, and lose any profiles you'd set for the EPG. What to do?
The answer: don't do an auto setup; instead, go into functions, setup and disable "Quick Start" under "Others" by setting it to OFF. Switch off the recorder in the usual way with the remote. Wait several minutes and switch it back on. Incidentally that takes *ages* without Quick Start! The clock problem and the EPG then come right. Pop back into Functions and set Quick Start back to ON.
The act of switching off Quick Start temporarily empties the machine's cache, where it was tenaciously hanging on to its wrong-timed EPG and setting the clock from that. Obviously after it's switched on it needs to download all of the new EPG, which takes some minutes - just leave it on a Freeview channel and it should make it.
I hope that helps someone. This step should be useful for getting the EPG updated with the new Sky channel replacing Sky Travel too, as the Panasonic EPG does tend to resist such changes due to its cached nature.