Any logic to what my YouView box records?

Hi,
Just wondering if this is normal, I set my YouView box to record Click on the BBC News channel, all I got today was half hour of Mandela mania. I'm sure my Sky box used to wait until the programme was actually on (so getting round any schedule changes) before recording it, can't the YouView box do the same?
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They quite often do not show the first scheduled broadcast of Click (at about 1.30 am on saturday) if there is some "important" news. You'd think that it wouldn't be necessary to show that news, which might have been on each bulletin during the previous day, in the middle of the night but they do.
There are several schedulings of Click and eventually one of them should be shown!
Richard

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MartinSW wrote:
cath60 wrote:
Actually, i have another question... since i was not made aware of this design fault when i took out the contract, can i cancel it? Really cross.
The picture should be displayed on your TV in a letterbox - a wide thin image in the horizontal middle with black bars top and bottom. If you're seeing it any other way the chances are your TV IS doing something to the picture.
I think the problem is actually that the TV isn't doing anything to the picture. It's just treating all signals as though they are 4:3 regardless of what the WSS indicator is telling it (SCART Pin 8 ?). Hence 7ft-person-o-vision. This seems a bit daft considering widescreen transmissions have been around for donkeys years long before digital TV or Freeview and Youview. The TV does seem to have a fundamental design fault. I have a 14 year old portable 4:3 CRT TV and even that allows me to display widescreen transmissions correctly in letterboxed format.
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UncleM1ch4el wrote:
Just a guess really but have you got anything plugged in the usb port? or registered a device on either apple or Android using the youview app. I mention this because the shape looks a bit like a large mouse pointer?
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happyflea wrote:
I need a new PVR, would be grateful for help on BT's latest box...
Can you get Youtube on it?
No.
Does downloading BBC Iplayer, Youtube, count towards my monthly Broadband usage?
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