Audio/Video problems on WFAA - MPEG4

[redrocker]

Last night I watched Lost (recorded wed. night on HR20-700) the show started out with slight pixelation and about 20 min into the show it was so bad the audio & video were froze up, when I FF it was froze for the entire show. The weather was perfect so no factor there.
I went into the bedroom to see if I could watch it on the old D*Tivo and sure enough.....it was flawless.
To me...the HR20 does not seem to be getting any better & I am also starting to hate my HR20.
I will give it a little more time but that is now short lived, I am losing much confidence in D* and their ability to produce a DVR that does what it is suppose to do. Tivo was the best thing by far that they ever had going for them till they got a little greedy, or something.

[texasbrit]

Last night I watched Lost (recorded wed. night on HR20-700) the show started out with slight pixelation and about 20 min into the show it was so bad the audio & video were froze up, when I FF it was froze for the entire show. The weather was perfect so no factor there.
I went into the bedroom to see if I could watch it on the old D*Tivo and sure enough.....it was flawless.
To me...the HR20 does not seem to be getting any better & I am also starting to hate my HR20.
I will give it a little more time but that is now short lived, I am losing much confidence in D* and their ability to produce a DVR that does what it is suppose to do. Tivo was the best thing by far that they ever had going for them till they got a little greedy, or something.

Just for once, nothing to do with the HR-20. The MPEG-4 locals in Dallas and Houston were basically unwatchable on Wednesday evening (on my H20 receiver as well as the HR20). I walked in a few minutes through Lost - the TV was off but I noticed the DD indicator on my A/V receiver was going crazy - so I quickly started a recording on my SD TiVo and didn't miss very much. It was apparently some sort of problem at the ground station that uplinks the HD local signals to the DirecTV satellite. Regular SD locals, and OTA, were both OK.

[tfederov]

I was having issues on all the MPEG-4 channels yesterday here in Plano FWIW.

[rokclimbertx]

ditto on the LOST issue... luckily ABC.com has the episodes available to free of charge so i watched it there...

Fox4 has had terrible issues lately as well... NBC5 i haven't watched lately as Heroes & the Donnellys are in hiatus... don't recall any issues with CBS11...

only other HD thing that's getting on my nerves is the guide showing HD hockey on 95 but it's not there... online guide shows MLB game...

[shollowa74]

I watched Lost last night in Dallas on my HR10 on channel 86 (the NY HD feed)and had significant audio problem for about the first 20 minutes. It sounded as if somebody was hammering just off the screen in the right and left channels. The audio corrected itself at around the 20 minute point.

[jgriffin7]

I watched Lost last night in Dallas on my HR10 on channel 86 (the NY HD feed)and had significant audio problem for about the first 20 minutes. It sounded as if somebody was hammering just off the screen in the right and left channels. The audio corrected itself at around the 20 minute point.

How did you score the NY HD feed? What strings at WFAA did you have to pull?