Timer split event into two segments!?!?

[treiher]

How about this one? We had a timer set for CSI Thursday night and it recorded the entire show, but split it into to two equal pieces. I'm serious! We had two separate 30 minute PVR events, both titled CSI, and one picked up exactly where the other left off. Anyone see anything like this? Thankfully, we had the entire show, but it does leave you wondering.

By the way, this happened AFTER we received L104. I just got done praising my 721 as being relatively bug free compared to others on this site, and then this happens.

[Bob Haller]

I had this occur once. Caused by a power glitch. I happened to be home at the time watching it record. I added a UPS because the reboot time is so long.
E really needs to look into the reboot time in regards to power glitches. Perhaps provide a 30 seconds of built in back up time. People arent going to like a 3 second brownout to result in 4 or 5 minutes of lost recordings.

[TerryC]

I've had this one. Only the segments were something like 17 seconds and 57 minutes for a one hour program. I'm pretty sure power outages weren't a factor.

[Ken Seeber]

Originally posted by TerryC
I've had this one. Only the segments were something like 17 seconds and 57 minutes for a one hour program. I'm pretty sure power outages weren't a factor.

That's been happening to me a lot the last couple of weeks with one-hour shows.  I get a 17-20 second first part, then a 57-minute part, with 2 minutes and 40 seconds of the beginning of the show missing in bewteen.

Chalk it up to another bug E* needs to solve with a software update.

[Bill Mullin]

Originally posted by Ken Seeber
That's been happening to me a lot the last couple of weeks with one-hour shows. I get a 17-20 second first part, then a 57-minute part, with 2 minutes and 40 seconds of the beginning of the show missing in bewteen.This happened to me last night 2 times! I was recording 2 movies from premium movie channels. This morning I had 2 recordings for each movie, each of these being a short program (<15 seconds) and a long program. Since I always record the extra minute at the beginning of a program, nothing important was lost. But this was weird, especially considering that the two programs did not even overlap each other. I just rebooted and hope this solves the problem, for awhile at least.

- Bill

[KEEFP]

This happened to me last week - there was a storm rolling through and the satellite signal was lost - it stopped recording until the signal cam back and then restarted the recording. On the PVR screen it showed up as two events with the same name. Maybe that's what happened to you.
Keith

[Ken Seeber]

OK, I was actually home last night when this happened and I can give a little more detail.

What's happening is, the PVR-721 starts recording a program, then reboots itself for no particular reason. When it's finished rebooting, it resumes recording the program. That's why there's one short section, then a second that starts about 3 minutes later.

[Halfsek]

Was this while it was on or off? I assume if it were off then it wouldn't want to reboot?

[Bill Mullin]

Originally posted by KEEFP
This happened to me last week - there was a storm rolling through and the satellite signal was lost - it stopped recording until the signal cam back and then restarted the recording. On the PVR screen it showed up as two events with the same name. Maybe that's what happened to you.
Keith The weather was perfect at the time of my interrupted recordings. Also I know there was no power failure as one of my kitchen clocks goes to "00:00" when power is interrupted, yet it was still keeping good time. Additionally, my 721's power is always off when I record. This is a real head-scratcher! :confused:

- Bill

[Timco]

This has been happening alot on my 501 also. About 2 programs a week. Usually 2 to 3 minutes are missing. :shrug:

[Ken Seeber]

Originally posted by Halfsek
Was this while it was on or off? I assume if it were off then it wouldn't want to reboot?

That's what was weird --- the unit was off.&nbsp; I had it programmed to record "Angel" on WPIX, but I got home from work unexpectedly early.&nbsp; I hadn't had time to turn the TV or satellite receiver on yet to watch the show live, but I saw the red light come on to indicate it was recording.&nbsp; A few seconds later, it went off and I heard the machine rebooting.

Very frustrating, and I haven't been keeping track closely enough to know if this is a new problem with the latest (L104) software update or not.

[EvanS]

sigh...I also have been seeing this, but only for the last 3 days.
Exactly as described, 17 seconds, couple minutes missing, then the rest of the show.
I also seem to be getting a few audio dropouts. Nothing earth-shattering. This has only happened 3 times that I know of, and always on a PVR event. The dropout will be for approx 2 seconds.

is this an L104 deal?

[treiher]

I first experienced it with L103. I think it's fair to say L104 did not fix an already existing problem. As promised, L104 was not supposed to have any bug fixes.