Monday, June 29, 2009

Robin Hood - 27th June

A call on Sunday "Have you recorded Robin Hood last night? Our box hasn't recorded it."
I haven't been watching it , but it is on the series link so should have recorded. I check and no listing.

I visit the BBC website and check their schedule and there it is at the right time of 18:45 on BBC1. That's odd. So I hit the 'net.

Ah seems we're not the only ones wondering what happened. It seems the BBC moved it from 18:45 to 19:00; hmm but my box is smart enough to realise that and stay active until it receives the correct identifier and starts recording. So what when wrong?

Oh yes they'd moved it to 19:00 and switched it to BBC2. Now I've already complained about not sending the correct information through, but yeesh there's little any recorder can do if the channel is changed.

Just to clarify the sheer dumbness of this act the episode they moved was the second of a two-parter, and was the last in the series. No seriously who thought this would be a good idea?

Ah it would be these people. Gods it's like living in the dark ages - oo BBC1 is the premier channel so we have to stick the sports on that even if we know they might overrun and despite the fact we know that everyone expects the news at 18:00 etc. For gods' sake just stick these things on BBC2 where there is nothing on at specific times that people expect.

Complain here. [I have]

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