S1 sound shifting to lower notes?

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I have an old S1 that is still my primary TiVo (it has lifetime, so I don't want to junk it and see the monthly fee on my wife's TiVo go up!). Over the past few days, all sounds out of it (both programs and the TiVo beeps) have shifted down a few notes, and the resulting sound is also somewhat muffled as if the treble is gone. It's really weird to explain, but sounds almost like the sound chip just isn't keeping up, but getting itself back into sync many times per second (so that the missed data isn't usually noticeable -- just everything sounds like it's at a lower frequency) The video's fine, so I assume it can't be the disk at fault.

I've tried a reboot and a power cycle and nothing's changed. Has something horrible and permanent gone wrong, or is there a way to fix this?

 

D'oh!! Never thought of the outbound connection. It's connected to the TV via a karaoke-optimized VCR -- and my two-year-old has been playing with the VCR's remote.

The VCR has a sound shifter in it All is fine now.

I'll just blush and retreat into a corner...