Playback stops by itself

[That Don Guy]

I was in the middle of playing back a recording on my S3 when the screen went blank (well, gray, as if the cable signal had gone out), after which it went back to the live TV signal. It turns out that there was an EAS test going on at the time (which my S2 recorded). Is this the way the S3 is supposed to work?

(You would think that if the EAS signal was important enough to interrupt whatever I was watching, it would actually broadcast the message - or is it smart enough to know the difference between the test and, like they used to say on the old EBS messgaes, "an actual emergency", in which case there wouldn't really be a need to interrupt playback?)

-- Don

[Roderigo]

I was in the middle of playing back a recording on my S3 when the screen went blank (well, gray, as if the cable signal had gone out), after which it went back to the live TV signal. It turns out that there was an EAS test going on at the time (which my S2 recorded). Is this the way the S3 is supposed to work?

No, it's not the way the TiVo is supposed to work. It should behave the same way as your cable box. Most likely, the force tune channel definition in the EAM was ambiguous, and the tivo box picked a different (though valid based on the spec) place to tune that didn't have video.