Plea to Humax freeview owners

thor

Can anyone owning a humax freeview box run a test for me today?
I have had a pvr-9150T for a few years now and have had a problem with it for several months(maybe even right from the start).
When I record certain programmes and replay them, there are a small number of occasions where it very annoyingly jumps or skips from a couple of seconds to almost half a minute.
What is really odd is that it only happens for some programmes. One of them is 'Points of View'. I copy this every week and whenever I watch it again it glitches two or three times. I don't know why my humax box discriminates in this way. Maybe some programmes broadcast differently?
Anyway I would be very interested if someone could copy today's POV on bbc1 at 15.10 and then watch it for the entire episode to see if the copy skips or not.

sniggings

just seen this or i would have done it for you...saying that mine is a freesat not freeview box so probably wouldn't have helped.

I once had this problem, certain programmes skipped all the time, doesn't seem to do it now, |I put it down to the hard drive having a bad patch, rather than the programme.

If you record the programme at the same point on the hard drive each week, it may be a hard drive error, maybe try not deleting stuff for a while so you are using a different part of the hard drive to record on and see if the problem is still there.

thor

I watched Sunday's episode as well as copying it to see if there were any jitters live. There was none. Then I played the recording and for the first time in history it too contained zero skips or glitches.
I really don't know what to make of this but am hoping maybe the box has turned a corner and is going to behave now. Unfortunately POV has finished it's run until the Autumn(I think) so I won't be able to confirm this for a few months yet. There were other programmes similarly affected but I can't remember which or even if they are being aired now.
I had already dismissed the hard drive idea as I copy quite a lot of stuff and out of all of them the chances of a small number of progs always ending up on a dodgy part of the disk must be fairly remote.

I guess I just need to keep my fingers crossed.