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donavanb
03-09-2007, 12:01 AM
This may have been discussed before but I can't find it.

So here is what is happening, any help on what is going on would be appreciated.

about 10% of the time on Season Pass recordings, I go to watch and it says 0 minutes recorded. So I started watching for it to happen and noticed that the channel is grey screen on just that tuner. So I stop the recording and I change the channel up or down on and back and I have get it back. Fine if I am there to catch it but burns me up when I miss a show.

I have called DTV for the past six months about this issue, at first they were not sure kept having me unplug and reboot the machine ( have done this more than 5 times ) after a couple months I started hearing that they new about the problem and was working on a fix, so after several months of hearing that I am told that 6.3c will fix this problem. Guess what? It didn't so I call back 2 different times and talk to 2 different reps and all of sudden they have never heard of this issue now and the only thing they can recommend is to do a hard reboot where I lose everything. I will need to transfer quite a bit to DVD before I can do this. But I wanted to see if anyone else here has run into this problem and gotten if figured out yet.

Thanks and sorry so long.

catfish john
03-09-2007, 07:01 AM
Yes, I have had that problems for several weeks.
It is only on the HD channels, usually 86 or 80! I have never had this problems on 70.
I have found this work around:
I do not watch any show live, but TIVO all, so on the night the show is on that I want to TIVO, I set one of the receivers on the channel that I want to record. I have not lost any show since starting this! It is'nt the best, but a least it works.
catfish john

JimSpence
03-09-2007, 08:22 AM
A hard reboot (removing power and restoring) will not cause you to lose anything. The probably meant for you to do a Clear and Delete Everything.

donavanb
03-09-2007, 11:26 AM
Yes the clear and remove everything is what they wanted me to do. I just have so much stuff that I want to keep and haven't had time to transfer to DVD yet. So I was hoping someone hear might have a suggestion.

My problem has only happened on Network channels both HD and local (not through an antenna) but that may be because 75% of my recordings are on Network channels.