It appears that a very recent freeview transmission change (publicly undocumented?) has caused older Digitalstream and Sony Digital Freeview recorders to start failing.

https://www.facebook.com/UKterrestrialTV/?hc_ref=PAGES_TIMELINE&fref=nf


Many people seem to be giving up on perfectly good hardware because it now appears that a recent configuration change to freeview has exposed a common bug in DVR's based on the Broadcom 7405 SoC, like my Digitalstream DHR-8205U


 http://www.avforums.com/threads/digital-stream-dhr-8203-5u-hd-pvr-master-thread-part-twelve.1686714/page-54


and onwards. In this case the responsibility for mending things lies with DigitalUK.  Will they join the movement?


James

It appears that a very recent freeview transmission change (publicly undocumented?) has caused older Digitalstream and Sony Digital Freeview recorders to start failing.

https://www.facebook.com/UKterrestrialTV/?hc_ref=PAGES_TIMELINE&fref=nf


Many people seem to be giving up on perfectly good hardware because it now appears that a recent configuration change to freeview has exposed a common bug in DVR's based on the Broadcom 7405 SoC, like my Digitalstream DHR-8205U


 http://www.avforums.com/threads/digital-stream-dhr-8203-5u-hd-pvr-master-thread-part-twelve.1686714/page-54


and onwards. In this case the responsibility for mending things lies with DigitalUK.  Will they join the movement?


James