My Sony RDR-HXD970 is bloody annoying me.  Everytime it updates, it
deletes the timer list.  The only way round it is when timing a
programme, set EPG link to 'off', which is time consuming especially
if you have several programmes to record, and it won't change if the
programme times change.  I have set to Sony to 'no updates' but it
still does it, around 3 times a day!  Is it faulty?

Marky P.

On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:01:32 +0100, Marky P
 wrote:

>My Sony RDR-HXD970 is bloody annoying me.  Everytime it updates, it
>deletes the timer list.  The only way round it is when timing a
>programme, set EPG link to 'off', which is time consuming especially
>if you have several programmes to record, and it won't change if the
>programme times change.  I have set to Sony to 'no updates' but it
>still does it, around 3 times a day!  Is it faulty?
>
>Marky P.

Please ignore this thread.  I've downloaded the new firmware and all
is sorted.

Marky P.

Marky P wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:01:32 +0100, Marky P
>  wrote:
> 
>> My Sony RDR-HXD970 is bloody annoying me.  Everytime it updates, it
>> deletes the timer list.  The only way round it is when timing a
>> programme, set EPG link to 'off', which is time consuming especially
>> if you have several programmes to record, and it won't change if the
>> programme times change.  I have set to Sony to 'no updates' but it
>> still does it, around 3 times a day!  Is it faulty?
>>
>> Marky P.
> 
> Please ignore this thread.  I've downloaded the new firmware and all
> is sorted.

How did you find what firmware version you had, and how do you download more?

On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:45:35 +0100, funkmish
<funkmish@address.invalid> wrote:

>Marky P wrote:
>> On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:01:32 +0100, Marky P
>>  wrote:
>> 
>>> My Sony RDR-HXD970 is bloody annoying me.  Everytime it updates, it
>>> deletes the timer list.  The only way round it is when timing a
>>> programme, set EPG link to 'off', which is time consuming especially
>>> if you have several programmes to record, and it won't change if the
>>> programme times change.  I have set to Sony to 'no updates' but it
>>> still does it, around 3 times a day!  Is it faulty?
>>>
>>> Marky P.
>> 
>> Please ignore this thread.  I've downloaded the new firmware and all
>> is sorted.
>
>How did you find what firmware version you had, and how do you download more?

On the remote, press this little lot:

System Menu > Initial Set up > Options > Software Update > Technical
Info.  This gets you the software version (should be 125 or higher).

Next, try this:

System Menu > Initial Set up > Audio Out > Dolby Digital Output > '9'.
This gets you the firmware version (should be 1.63 or higher).

To download the latest firmware upgrade, you need to burn a CD of it.
Instructions on where to find the download and how to use it can be
found over at AV Forums, somewhere in the DVD recorder forum.

Marky P.