Freeview boxes lose EPG
Got a Freeview recorder made by DigiFusion, Inverto, Sony or Thomson? You may find that you’ve lost your 14 day programme guide.
Some boxes from the manufacturers listed made use of the 14 day EPG known at 4TV – a service supplied by a company called InView. It seems that the contract between InView and the manufacturers has expired and the 4TV service is no longer being transmitted.
So, where does that leave customers? Those with an affected box will now find that they are no longer getting anything other than the “now and next” information, effectively rendering their hard-disk recorder barely usable. Yo record a programme in the future, the user will have to enter the start time and date manually referring to some other form of TV guide (remember them?)
If you have an affected box, you might like to sign the petition to get 4TV restored, or add your comment here.
What is Sony going to do about it. Have they now abandoned us who have bought one of their products. Sony we request that you have this information reinstated. A G I
I own a Inverto IDL 7000 which has lost the EPG and just to really wind me up early every morning it will switch on to download the EPG and it takes one hour and of course its a compleat waste of time.
Lucky enough I own several PVR’s so its not the end of the world but if the designers had incorporated a switch so selecting the normal freeview EPG it would not end up a now or next unit.
I bought my unit very cheap but I would be pulling my hair out if I had paid list price for it.