Video stutter on watching recordings but not live

[bongju]

I am getting significant video stutter when watching recordings on my HR20-700, but not when watching live shows. On watching the Superbowl today on channel 88, the problem was really bad when I was about 30 minutes behind real time, but the stutter went away when I caught up to 10 minutes behind real time up to watching live.

Does anybody else have this problem?

[ulbonado]

No guarantees, but that's a typical symptom of a hard drive going bad in a DVR.