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  1. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    As the original poster, these last few posts actually make me feel a *little bit* better about what happened (almost exactly) a year ago. It sounds like my problem was not something as trivial as a bad power supply, but on the motherboard itself. Still a problem that was, in principle, fixable...
  2. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    Rich, I wasn't part of that detailed discussion, although I remember the longing for DLB. Are you saying that the implementation of DLB messed up other things that already worked, or that the time and effort that went into that feature took away from work that could have been done on other...
  3. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    Wow, zombie thread! Nope, my unit had to be returned, so there was no way to try going Frankenstein on it. Maybe your replacement will be my old unit with a new power supply - wouldn't THAT be a weird one. I still have a bunch of content on my HDDs that can't play, but I can't bear to delete...
  4. DIRECTV Tips and Resources
    I agree with your sentiment in general, but in my case, I had to come up with this because my drive had been partially corrupted and it wouldn't even boot into a working mode. So officially supporting external drives in a way that allows transfers wouldn't have helped me. What is somewhat...
  5. DIRECTV Tips and Resources
    That would work, making the scripting less complex. Probably still need a script just because of the large number of files involved. I haven't tried it since last October, or so. My goal was to recover the recordings from a corrupted drive, and that succeeded. Later on, as appears in the...
  6. DIRECTV Tips and Resources
    Wow, this thread is back? Anyway, restoring timestamps has NO importance in terms of the watchability of the recordings. It only comes into play, as far as I can tell, if you are trying to trim off unneeded pieces of the recording by deleting segment files at the beginning or end of the...
  7. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    Rich, your next goal should be to work in the word "ante-penultimate". (The rest of my post had to be removed - it had drifted into unallowed territory.) Oh, forgot to add - DTV offered me three free months of HBO for my trouble. No doubt they're hoping I'll forget to cancel when my free time...
  8. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    While we're out of rescue mode and recovery mode and now into replace mode, I'll just add that they've confirmed that a 23-700 is headed my way. At least it's the exact model I'm used to. And the frustrating thing is that I would have within my grasp the very power supply I need to get my old...
  9. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    Since it's a leased unit, there's no fixing the PS - regrettably.
  10. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    OK, after my experiments, we're all in agreement that the (generic) power cord is not the issue. (At the time of my original question, I didn't know if the units had something special in their power cords that required replacement from DTV.) But now I wonder if the power supply may not be the...
  11. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    I certainly hope she wouldn't do that intentionally, because it wouldn't be any benefit towards actually solving my problem. In any case, a new unit will be headed my way tomorrow after a second call to Customer Service. I just hope it isn't so old that it's incompatible with my external...
  12. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    That's the data I needed - and, turns out the "bad" cord seems to work just fine for charging my camcorder. A bad sign. So, looks like I have probably seen USC-Oregon 2011 and the season finale of Hawaii-5-0 for the last time. And looks like my wife will never get to see the last two hours of...
  13. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    Checked the power connection, and so on - everything else on that circuit is fine. (No other DVR to check with.) I do pull out the power cord each time I reboot to switch external drives (after doing a standard shutdown), so it's conceivable that it could be worn. Just seems odd that it died...
  14. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    Customer service is sending me out a replacement power cord. If she can be believed, more often than not the symptoms I described are due to a faulty cord. Sounds odd, but what do I know? If she's right, I'll still have my football games. Naturally, I mentioned not wanting to lose recordings...
  15. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    At 11:59 last night, my HR23 converted itself from a DVR into a paperweight. No lights, no sound, nothing. Seems pretty likely a case of a power supply dying. (Happy birthday!) When I call for service, they will presumably offer to replace it, at which point a couple hundred hours of movies...
  16. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    Do tell - is another NR imminent? I was surprised to learn that there are parts of the country that are just now getting the new GUI, so maybe those of us who got it fairly early will need to be patient before another release appears. My request for quicker access to the To-Do list seems to be...
  17. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    Can I get really "blue-sky"? How about user-defined folders in the playlist? Maybe I want to create a folder for "Disney movies" or "Big 10 football" or "Jill Hennessy programs", or the like. On these large drives where we may have a couple hundred things recorded, the playlist gets awfully...
  18. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    Quicker access to the "To Do" list
  19. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    Are the HR-20s already out of the loop?
  20. DIRECTV HD DVR/Receiver Discussion
    Actually, if you mount the HDD in a Unix system, you'll find that the folder representing a particular recording *does* contain a series of 16Mb files. Each of these files has its own Unix time stamp, so you can tell which portion of the recording it corresponds to, and these are what I am...
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