PS3 owners can breathe a sigh of relief. Sony have identified todays problem with the PlayStation Network which was causing mayhem for console owners. Players reported that consoles had also lost track of trophy collections. Fortunately the trophy data is not lost – get a new trophy and the list will reappear.
Apparently the problem was caused because 2010 is not a leap year. Somehow Sony thought it was when they wrote the code. Odd that they made the error as it was well documented way back in 1999 – when it was known as the Millennium Bug. Sony say that the problem only occured in older models – newer slim consoles were unaffected.
If the time displayed on the XMB is still incorrect, users can update the clock (either manually or via the internet), and all will be well.
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The BT Vision PVR is a great product and in many ways preferable to a Sky+. One slight disadvantage is that like other Freeview boxes and TVs, it needs occasional retuning when the channel lineup changes. The box will normally prompt you to retune if it spots a change to the Freeview channel line-up.
Just occasionally the retuning process goes wrong and gets stuck at 0% progress. The solution to the problem is quite simple though – switch the box to standby and turn the mains off at the socket (or pull the plug out…)
Leave the box off for 10-15 sec then turn the mains back on. After the box reboots, which takes a few minutes, you can start the retuning process by pressing the ‘BT Vision’ button, going to Settings, selecting TV Settings then Add Channels to TV Guide then finally Scan for Channels.
Happy viewing!
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The Thomson DTi6300 PVR can become slow and unresponsive if the available free disk space falls below 15%. This easy to fix by deleting a few programmes.
Sometimes however these boxes can get their disks in a twist, which can result in flaky operation even when there is sufficient free space. In this case, the answer is often to reformat the disk, which can be accomplished by following the steps below.
Thomson DTi6300 disk reformat instructions
Warning – this operation will delete all recordings!
- Select Menu then Set-Up and finally Help
- Press the green remote button to access the Advanced Information menu
- Press the blue button
- Finally press the green button to proceed
The process takes about a minute, after which the box will restart, then go into standby. Hopefully you will then find your box operation has been returned to normal.
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Some people are being plagued by PC error messages saying “cannot find flash.ocx”. Often there is no indication of the program that has been looking for the missing file, so diagnosis is difficult.
Flash is an application that is great for providing interactive features on web pages. It is also used by screensavers and to provide menus on CD-ROMS. It was created by Macromedia (now Adobe) and for the first six generations the main programme file was called flash.ocx but since then the file name has included the vesion number. Some out of date applications that use Flash expect the file to be called flash.ocx, so throw up this error.
There are two possible solutions to the problem:
- Find the application that is causing the problem and update or uninstall it
- Create a new version of flash.ocx by finding the latest version of flash on your PC, copying and pasting it into the same directory and renaming the copy to flash.ocx. The file is located in this folder: C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash
The second solution may be less work but flash.ocx is deleted by the updater every time a new version of Flash comes out. Consequently you will need to keep repeat the copying and renaming process.
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