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Old 09-03-2004, 12:40   #35
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Re: Why Cant Ntl Update Over Night

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Originally Posted by SMHarman
Will be nice to see. The blanking is due to the box being overloaded with new program guide information and dealing with that in preference to decoding the picture you are trying to watch. Seems like load management issues in the software. Proppin knows more and as he says a fix is on its way.
I'd heard that the blanking was the STB retuning to the channel it was on in case the channel has changed frequency or been deleted. It certainly isn't because the new guide is sorted out in preference to decoding the picture, as the STB has separate processors to deal with these (regular processor and MPEG video processor).

Why the guide download can't contain a summary of channel changes, so the STB can work out IF it needs a retune, I have no idea.
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