Partial (zero length) reported for full program

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I found a new problem this week/weekend. This has never happened to me before, so I am confused. Several programs reported their length as zero (partial). I have seen this before, but in those cases, there really was only about a minute recorded. In each of the cases this weekend, the entire program was there, and it played back just fine, with two exceptions: The 30 second skip, and fast forward buttons didn't work, and gave me a "bong" sound when I tried to use them. I don't remember trying the reverse buttons. And, the program position gage showed no green, only white, just as if there was no content. The position indicator never progressed, but, like I said, the entire show and its content were there and accessible.

As I am thinking about it now, I feel this was happening only to programming on the second tuner. I should go try this tonight to see if that indeed is the situation.

Has anyone seen this and knows of a fix (No, I haven't unplugged it yet)? Is my TIVO dying?

 

Well, it's a bit complicated, but here it is. I record a program every day to my DVD recorder. Tivo has a good/bad habit (It's a blessing, and a curse-- Adrian Monk) of always recording the "first" thing on the tuner you are currently NOT watching, so I was always getting a recording of what I didn't want. To deal with this, I put in a manual recording starting before my program, and ending at the start time of my program. I set the program I want, to start two minutes earlier than its official start time so I am forcing the TIVO to record AND to "show" my program, which the DVD recorder then happily records. The programs that were reporting zero length were the ones I wanted, and the ones that reported the correct length were the manual recorded shows. I unplugged the satellite two line, and the channel that reported losing the sat signal was sat 2, and I could see that it was on the station that I wanted to record, while sat 1 was on the station I had chosen for the manual record.

Last evening, I started two simultaneous recordings, and they both worked properly and reported the correct length of finished program. I'm stumped.