6.3c ota problems

[daviddsims]

I havent made a call on my hd tivo in 3 months as I currently have 6.3b which has been pretty good to me. Well I got tired of seeing the messages about making a call so I drug my phone line out and made a call and got pending restart. Restarted recorder and resumed watching ota and noticed immediatly that I was getting breakups every few seconds. I had been watching ota all day on the same channel and for months I have not had a breakup until I updated and it was immediate. I checked signal and am getting a 90 just like always. There is only one logical conclusion and that is 6.3c had an affect on my ota reception. Any opinions on this?

[sluciani]

Bummer you have them, but I never saw OTA-specific dropouts on my four HR10's, all updated to 6.3c. UHF signal strength was usually in the mid to high 80's for the four major nets, and high 60's for PBSHD. All four HR10's were diplexed off the same roof antenna.

FOX OTA audio dropouts under 6.3a were another story, however. All four of them suffered miserably until they got 6.3b out. /steve

[daviddsims]

Mine has constant breakups on all the majors if it drops below 75 or so. I pulled box apart and made sure connections were tight but found nothing wrong. When I play ota on my samsung dlp tvs tuner there is never a dropout. The tuner in the tv is a million times better.

[sluciani]

Mine has constant breakups on all the majors if it drops below 75 or so. I pulled box apart and made sure connections were tight but found nothing wrong. When I play ota on my samsung dlp tvs tuner there is never a dropout. The tuner in the tv is a million times better.Since 6.3c?

[eichenberg]

having same problems...see http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=346429 for how it started. Since my last post it has progessed to picture and sound break ups on both OTA and Sat channels. It seems that once I started watching OTA then Sat would get screwed up. If I stay away from OTA then Sat is fine. I called tech for the 3rd time and again they keep telling me it is my OTA anntena causing the problems. I asked them my OTA anntena can cause a/v issues on SAT channels and he said yes. This week started the 4th week we have had problems.

[daviddsims]

They are clueless at tech support. I sit there and watched ota on my samsung tv tuner and not one breakup all day on any of the ota channels. I am telling you as soon as I downloaded 6.3c and restarted the recorder the breakups started. I never thought software had much to do with ota but in this case it did. Its not as if the HD Tivo was great at picking up ota anyways and now it is officially the worst box on the market for ota. Thinking about getting the new Directv DVR just to get a good ota tuner.

[beanpoppa]

Whenever I have a weak OTA signal on one tuner, I will get audio drops/video skips on the other tuner (OTA or Sat). I think dealing with a bad signal on one tuner ties up the CPU. The audio drops/video skips are not recorded to the disk- ie, if I rewind, back over the audio drop, it will play back fine.

I get this on 6.3b- I've never upgraded to 6.3c, and went right from 3.1 to 6.3b.

If the above isn't the cause of your problem, it's probably a hard drive going bad.

having same problems...see http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=346429 for how it started. Since my last post it has progessed to picture and sound break ups on both OTA and Sat channels. It seems that once I started watching OTA then Sat would get screwed up. If I stay away from OTA then Sat is fine. I called tech for the 3rd time and again they keep telling me it is my OTA anntena causing the problems. I asked them my OTA anntena can cause a/v issues on SAT channels and he said yes. This week started the 4th week we have had problems.