the freeview platform has several providers of channels, some like pick tv and challange tv (gold etc) are sent by sky. there are others like bt sport too, never mind bbc and itv
the point was that the epg has corrupt data, and it appears to be the sky EPG that has this corrupt data, and is freezing the recorder when it tries to interpret this data, so even if all the other providers data is perfect, the one flaw causes the system to fail
if you own a car, say a ford , you may put texaco petrol in it, or q8 , or shell, and the supplier of the petrol could cause your car to cough and splutter , so one bad batch will cause cars to misfire, and as ford do not supply your petrol they are not respoinsible for the problem, and may not even know about it until the reports come through
your sony recorder (and others like vestel and pioneer) are dependent on the good epg for them to work, not a corrupted epg. in this case this problem gives the errors we are reporting, and some blame sony, but sony havent done anything to cause this, but I do think they or pioneer need to issue a fix that allows the units to be used despite the corrupt data, seeing as it hasnt affected say panasonic or samsung recorders
if it had affected every recorder and every tv in the land, the outcry would have been massive and everybody would have known about it and blamed the new apprentice at the epg transmission centre for the c*** up !! LOL
