OK, its a now old Samsung analogue / digi plasma TV, but recently it has developed an oddity...
Press Info and it shows the information for the previous program, rather than the current one. It is always one behind. In the info panel it shows the correct time.
So instead, I have to press Guide, which list all the channels with the current channel and the current program properly highlighted, then click Info - which comes up with the current program information. This problem may have begun with the switch to BST.
It seems some people with smart Samsung TV's can't get any EPG at all
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I've got a non-smart flat screen Samsung. And the only EPG problem I sometimes get is if viewing one channel at say 12.00, other channels on the EPG for 12.00 may show " No Information Available". The only solution is to actually change to one of those channels and then all the information for those channels will appear.
According to other posts on that thread the providers of EPG information are independent of the manufacturers and if they go out of business, owners of those sets are stuck without any EPG information. Although I can't believe there can be any truth in this - ie that those manufacturers don't provide an alternative, unless the EPG provision in question was limited to specific models.
Whata lot of peole do not know is that computer systems are built of analogue electronics, and as chip sizes get smaller, so too do the number of electrons needed to effect a bit change on RAM.
A short burst of cosmic rays will almost certainly flip a bit or too in modern DRAM... as will a spark nearby (EMP).
From a study done...on ECC DRAM in supercompouters
"our data covers at least tens of millions of errors over a combined period of nearly 300 Terabyte years. In addition to correctable errors (CEs), we also observe a non-negligible rate of ?non-trivial? errors, which required more than simple SEC-DED strategies for correction: 1.34% of the nodes in the BG/P system saw at least one error that required chipkill to correct it."
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I.e. it doesnt need a SOFTWARE bug, or indeed failing HARDWARE to make a computer go weird.
Other issues that can do it are a certain data pattern on the bus at a certain point in code execution. If the hardware is for whatever reason (age, temperature, just made that way) 'edge of spec' that pattern can push things over the edge.
Dear me, I'd have thought you'd have been around long enough to know that a full power down reboot cures a significantly high number of "wierdness" issues with almost any bit of kit.
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