Beauth <Beauth.3o389n@no.email.invalid> wrote:
>
> I have two Panasonic EH55 DMRs and I lost the ON-Screen TV Guide. The
> cable company says they have not changed anything.
>
> I am looking for any suggestions as to how I might correct this
> situation. Thanks.
>
>
If you are posting from the US the guide information comes from
your local PBS station and not from the cable company. On my
model E85, when the guide display is on, I can use up arrow
and left arrow to go past "channel selection" to get to a
setup menu. Check both the channel selection settings and
setup settings to see that both are valid.
"Beauth" <Beauth.3o389n@no.email.invalid> wrote in message
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>
> I have two Panasonic EH55 DMRs and I lost the ON-Screen TV Guide. The
> cable company says they have not changed anything.
>
> I am looking for any suggestions as to how I might correct this
> situation. Thanks.
>
>
I just lost the TV Guide on mine also. My cable is Time-Warner in the
Milwaukee area. I haven't talked to them about it yet, but I'll bet the
proverbial "dollars to donuts" it's them, not my recorder. The same thing
happened about six months ago. I had to program everything manually for 4-6
weeks, then the TV Guide came back. Now it's gone again. Alas!
In article <ZLudnShq5PJCED7UnZ2dnUVZ_jyWnZ2d@earthlink.com> , "Bill McCutcheon" <wjmccn@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>"Beauth" <Beauth.3o389n@no.email.invalid> wrote in message
>news:Beauth.3o389n@no.email.invalid...
>>
>> I have two Panasonic EH55 DMRs and I lost the ON-Screen TV Guide. The
>> cable company says they have not changed anything.
>>
>> I am looking for any suggestions as to how I might correct this
>> situation. Thanks.
>>
>>
>
>I just lost the TV Guide on mine also. My cable is Time-Warner in the
>Milwaukee area. I haven't talked to them about it yet, but I'll bet the
>proverbial "dollars to donuts" it's them, not my recorder. The same thing
>happened about six months ago. I had to program everything manually for 4-6
>weeks, then the TV Guide came back. Now it's gone again. Alas!
>
>-- Bill McCutcheon
>
>
Did your local PBS go all digital? If so, that may be why....
"GMAN" <glenzabr@xmission.com> wrote in message
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> In article <ZLudnShq5PJCED7UnZ2dnUVZ_jyWnZ2d@earthlink.com> , "Bill
> McCutcheon" <wjmccn@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>>"Beauth" <Beauth.3o389n@no.email.invalid> wrote in message
>>news:Beauth.3o389n@no.email.invalid...
>>>
>>> I have two Panasonic EH55 DMRs and I lost the ON-Screen TV Guide. The
>>> cable company says they have not changed anything.
>>>
>>> I am looking for any suggestions as to how I might correct this
>>> situation. Thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>I just lost the TV Guide on mine also. My cable is Time-Warner in the
>>Milwaukee area. I haven't talked to them about it yet, but I'll bet the
>>proverbial "dollars to donuts" it's them, not my recorder. The same thing
>>happened about six months ago. I had to program everything manually for
>>4-6
>>weeks, then the TV Guide came back. Now it's gone again. Alas!
>>
>>-- Bill McCutcheon
>>
>>
> Did your local PBS go all digital? If so, that may be why....
The PBS time signal, which I use to sync a couple of video components, has
been acting flaky recently. So, that's something to check on. Thanks!
Thanks for the info regarding the Panasonic EH55. I just happen to be in the Milwaukee Time Warner area also. And this happened to a few months ago also and walla, one day it re-appeared. I will call my local PBS station and see what they can tell me. Thanks again.
>>> I have two Panasonic EH55 DMRs and I lost the ON-Screen TV Guide. The
>>> cable company says they have not changed anything.
>>>
>>> I am looking for any suggestions as to how I might correct this
>>> situation. Thanks.
>>
>>I just lost the TV Guide on mine also. My cable is Time-Warner in the
>>Milwaukee area. I haven't talked to them about it yet, but I'll bet the
>>proverbial "dollars to donuts" it's them, not my recorder. The same thing
>>happened about six months ago. I had to program everything manually for 4-6
>>weeks, then the TV Guide came back. Now it's gone again. Alas!
>>
>>-- Bill McCutcheon
>>
>>
>Did your local PBS go all digital? If so, that may be why....
My DMR-E85H has always had the TV Guide functions but the guide
data for it has been somewhat inconsistent. One thing to consider,
which seems to make it work better: at night, switch your input
to your converter box, tune your converter box to PBS, and then
turn the Panasonic OFF so it will hopefully listen to the guide
data on the digital channel overnight.
That's the only way it will get guide data if it can no longer
receive analog signals for one reason or another (in my case, I
stole the analog input to the Panasonic for the converter box without
getting another splitter, which makes the antenna signal a bit too
weak for the converter anyway.)
Gordon Burditt <gordonb.2szni@burditt.org> wrote:
>
> My DMR-E85H has always had the TV Guide functions but the guide
> data for it has been somewhat inconsistent. One thing to consider,
> which seems to make it work better: at night, switch your input
> to your converter box, tune your converter box to PBS, and then
> turn the Panasonic OFF so it will hopefully listen to the guide
> data on the digital channel overnight.
>
> That's the only way it will get guide data if it can no longer
> receive analog signals for one reason or another (in my case, I
> stole the analog input to the Panasonic for the converter box without
> getting another splitter, which makes the antenna signal a bit too
> weak for the converter anyway.)
>
The E85 starts to collect data after midnight and will not do so
if it is ON or if it is engaged in a recording event.
Are you saying that if your E85 cannot receive a data signal
from its designated PBS channel it tries to get the data from
the a/v input?
When my OTA PBS channel finally drops the analog signal I was
planning on feeding the digital signal from the converter box
through channel 3 into the E85 and trying to set the default
PBS data channel to 3.
On Feb 25, 1:21*am, root <NoEM...@home.org> wrote:
> Gordon Burditt <gordonb.2s...@burditt.org> wrote:
>
> > My DMR-E85H has always had the TV Guide functions but the guide
> > data for it has been somewhat inconsistent. *One thing to consider,
> > which seems to make it work better: *at night, switch your input
> > to your converter box, tune your converter box to PBS, and then
> > turn the Panasonic OFF so it will hopefully listen to the guide
> > data on the digital channel overnight.
>
> > That's the only way it will get guide data if it can no longer
> > receive analog signals for one reason or another (in my case, I
> > stole the analog input to the Panasonic for the converter box without
> > getting another splitter, which makes the antenna signal a bit too
> > weak for the converter anyway.)
>
> The E85 starts to collect data after midnight and will not do so
> if it is ON or if it is engaged in a recording event.
>
> Are you saying that if your E85 cannot receive a data signal
> from its designated PBS channel it tries to get the data from
> the a/v input?
>
> When my OTA PBS channel finally drops the analog signal I was
> planning on feeding the digital signal from the converter box
> through channel 3 into the E85 and trying to set the default
> PBS data channel to 3.
Unless your converter does something special, that's not going to
work. With analog TV, any data was carried in the Vertical Blanking
Interval (VBI). Essentiall, they used the time it takes to move the
electron beam from the end of the bottom line back to the start of the
top line to provide a low bit rate data channel. Digital TV is
completely different. Along with the digital program information,
there is another data stream (PSIP) carrying the channel mapping,
time, and programming information. To do what you want, the converter
would have to decode the PSIP stream, recode the relavent data, and
insert it in the VBI of the analog output. The only converter I am
aware of that might be able to do that is the DTVpal product. There
might be more, but I haven't heard of any.
As far as I can tell, the days of analog programming information in
the USA are numbered. Fortunately, as long as you keep the clock
correct, you can still manually program your box, like a VCR.
"Beauth" <Beauth.3o60ma@no.email.invalid> wrote in message
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>
> Thanks for the info regarding the Panasonic EH55. I just happen to be
> in the Milwaukee Time Warner area also. And this happened to a few
> months ago also and walla, one day it re-appeared. I will call my local
> PBS station and see what they can tell me. Thanks again.
>
I've sent electronic inquiries to both Time-Warner and MPTV (PBS) ... no
response so far. Please post whatever you find out. I'll do likewise.
Panasonic EH55 HDD DMR 
Linear Mode
