Recordings stop before it’s end

[Leaward]

Every night I record Newsnight on BBC2, for the last week, when I watch the playback, I find the recording has stopped about 5 mins before the end, meaning I miss the discussions.

[Annie+UK]

What is the padding setting on your Sky Box you can add an additional 5mins to your recordings using this

[Leaward]

Thank you for your speedy response. I've looked through the pdf file, but it doesn't mention "padding settings, or am I missing something. Regards

[Annie+UK]

Services >> Options >> Sky+ Setup

Add to start of recording

Add to End of recording

These are the options commonly known as padding

Hope that helps 🙂👍🏻

[Leaward]

Thank you again for the speedy response. Found it, they were set to Auto, so I'll tweek the settings and see what happens tonight.

[Federica-C]

Hi all,

We've just been informed that this is a known issue and our EPG Services are currently looking into it. Thanks, @Leaward for raising it through the community.

[Leaward]

Thankyou for your response. I followed previous advice from the community, and altered the padding from Auto to 2 mins, but this made no difference, so I will await your EPG solution. Regards

[annaalt2825]

I’ve added 5-10 mins each end and still hardly ever get a full programme!!

[Anonymous]

Still unresolved two weeks later. Any update?

[Federica-C]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Still unresolved two weeks later. Any update?

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Morning @Anonymous ,

BBC are still looking into this. Meanwhile, you can set the recording by selecting Newsnight and the BBC Weather that is on after Newsnight on the Sky TV Guide and then choose "Record Series on both."

[Anonymous]

Fine, but surely this should have been sorted by now. Pretty poor really...

[Mark39]

Perhaps it would be worth you taking it up with the BBC, @Anonymous ?

[Anonymous]

Pretty sure I pay Sky to do that on my behalf. Have tweeted Newsnight though.

[mr.tickle]

Newsnight is persistently and deliberately run late - and has been for around 20 years. The BBC's excuse is that it lets people watch their local news on BBC1 and then turn over and not miss the start of Newsnight.

However, the BBC should be sending the "start" signals when each programme starts, which the Sky box should be looking for. Ie, if there is no padding, it doesn't record 22:30-23:15, it records from "Start of Newsnight signal seen" to "Start of Newsnight's successor programme seen".

If you set "Add to End of Recording" to 10 minutes, which is the longest - there really ought to be 15, 20, 30 etc options too - then it will record until either 23:25, or "Start of Newsnight's successor programme seen"+ten minutes. Can't remember which.

Ultimately it's the BBC's fault for playing fast and loose with the times, but ALL UK broadcasters pull these stunts, in particular ITV and the BBC. Which is why PVR creators are FORCED to add these archaic "padding" options for recordings, which simply shouldn't be required in this day and age. Other than the odd live event overrunning, you wouldn't need padding options in 99% of cases. But here we are, needing to use this safety net for a flagship regular programme, which has entirely predictable and planned-to-the-second timings.

So because we're relying on a safety net, it's tempting to think "the safety net should better". See above for my suggestions on how to make it better. But the root of the problem is arrogant broadcasters doing it on purpose, day in, day out.

@Federica-C , I don't know if you have any contacts in the BBC's scheduling department, but it's those people who need a nudge if you would be so kind for us, not just the technical people!

[Annie+UK]

Using manual record will allow more flexibility to the amount of time you can add to a recording