New Tivo HD Problem / Fast Forward Skips

The Series3 had this problem in 8.1.x and Tivo fixed it in 8.3.x. The problem was worst on FiOS, but it affected some other cable providers too.

I have not seen any FF skipping with the TivoHD on FiOS, so I assumed that Tivo fixed the issue with the revision of 8.1.x on the TivoHD.

I would suggest you save that recording for now. If you see it again, Tivo may be interested in looking at those recordings for analysis.

The new update is intended to reduce / eliminate pixelization, but you may also check to see if it has any affect on the FF skipping with that recording.

 

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I only use the 30 second skip. Never the Fast forward. And I've had no problems with the 30 second skip since the update.

 

I had the same problem with the same show last night (TiVoHD with SA cables cards). I was fast forwarding and it skipped a huge amount. Took me a few seconds to figure out what happened. Pixelation was also horrible. I'm looking forward to trying out the new software release.

 

Happening to me; tivo recorded how it works and it skips on fast forward, it also takes a good couple of seconds for sound to resume.

 

I know it's hard to accept for people who are still having problems with the THD, but trust me, TiVo will get the issues resolved, and sooner rather than later.

If I sound confident it's only because I've early adopted for years now. I've seen bugs get worked out with the Pioneer DVD/TiVo box when it came out, I've seen issues resolved with the Series 3, and near as I can tell, after 24 hours I've seen the occasional problems with blocking on my new THD box disappear as of last night's update.

It's impossible to test every piece of hardware under every installation condition. But ruling out other issues that might be unique to someone's setup, such as connection problems, signal problems, or faulty cablecards, I feel confident that the remaining picture quality issues will be resolved.

 

It still happens for me very intermittently on my S3. I record only analog at the moment (except rare manual QAM recordings). [I bit the lifetime transfer offer..]

 

I had a similar problem withmy S3, but not quite as extreme. At times my FFx2 would be very choppy, skip ahead in chunks rather than smoothly. I finally noticed that it only happened on ABC and Fox, both 720p broadcasts. I switched my Tivo output to 1080i fixed and the problem went away.

 

No you are not.. I have a Tivo HD and sometimes it is skipping 5 minutes

and I have the audio problem too. It take few seconds for the audio to come back.

 

I started my own thread because I didn't know this one already existed... but here it goes

When I try to fast forward in any recorded program TiVo it moves normally throughout the program on Speed 1 and Speed 2. When you use the fast forward in Speed 3 during at the beginning of the program as soon as it hits the 5 minute mark it skips to 30 minute and then continues as normal. When it gets to 35 minute it skips to 54 minutes and then continues normal to the end of the program.

 

I have the weird fast forward skip problem too. What I do to get around it is I'll 2x fast forward for 3-5 sec. then 1x fast forward for 3-5 sec. then back to 2x for 3-5 sec and I do this till my show is back on. Sucks to do but is effective.

This is the only way I've found to prevent this EXTEREMLY annoying problem from happening.