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darwin-t
04-09-2005, 08:23 PM
I have a Phillips Series 1 standalone Tivo, which I use with a Directtv receiver.

1. It occassionally reboots on it's own. It doesn't matter if it's recording at the time or not. I can tell because of interrupted recordings and my 30 second skip is reset. It also occassionally quits responding to the remote. When it does this the green light doesn't change brightness when a remote key is pressed like it normally does. It also doesn't respond via the network card during this time. If I'm watching something I usually pull the power cord to restart it. Today I let it go and after a few minutes it rebooted by itself. I assume that the 2 are connected - that it always stops responding to the remote a few minutes before it reboots.

2. Today I had watched something on the History channel. It was set to record a show at 4:30 on the E! Entertainment channel. I came home about 10 minutes into the recording and saw the History channel, the show that was on at the time. The channel banner said it was on E!, the bug in the corner and the show was defiinitely the History Channel. I stopped the recording, changed to a different channel then to E! (236) and restarted the recording. I watched the first part of the recording and it was normal. The only thing I can think of is that I paused on the History channel and was seeing the buffer play out, but wouldn't the TiVo changing channels to record wipe it out?

darwin-t
04-09-2005, 11:21 PM
I figured out the second one. I set my TiVo to record a program on channel 59 from 8:30 to 9:00. I was on Foxnews and at 8:04 I paused it.

I forgot all about it untill 8:55. I hit play and the time bar showed 8:04-8:30 and I watched the show from the buffer from Foxnews even though it was recording on channel 59 at the time. I left the room and came back at 9:05 and the buffer showed the program on channel 59 that started at 9:00 - when my recording stopped.

Not only did the buffer not clear when it changed channels to record, the buffer stayed intact for almost an hour.

AVD
04-12-2005, 03:12 AM
it does that until you get to the end of the buffer, burns in your TV theoretically