I was recording a movie and all of the sudden my HDDVR stopped recording and all of the channels on the guide say "To Be Announced". Can anyone shed some light on the issue?
Did it wipe clean your recently deleted folder?.MrTangent said:After a reboot (of my Hughes DirecTiVo), the guide data was back, but the To Do list was empty.
Here's what I did to fix it: Go to Season Pass Manager, and make any rearrangement in the season pass list. I moved my #2 season pass to the #1 spot.
It showed "Please wait" for several minutes (as usual for a season pass rearrangement), but after that the To Do list was back to normal. Whew!
Directv has always had the proper dish system. You have never had to find a dish. The original 18" dish has always been with the system.dreadlk said:I have had Satellite TV from almost day one, I'm talking back in the days when Bob Cooper was starting, so if you know that name you know when it was.
I have had DirectV from before they even had a proper Dish system, back then you could get the receiver but you had to find a dish on your own.
Anyway I agree with you that overall there reliability record has been great but in all honesty I can say there Record so far with the HR2x Series has been a disaster. I have had more problems with my HR20 in one year than I had in all the years with my original RCA and then my Hughes receiver. I have had to apologize to my Wife and Kids on more occasions than I am comfortable with (for Non Recordings), and I have even had to apologize to a good friend who got a system on my recommendation.
I am hopeful they will fix the problems but from what I have seen they can't seem to get it right; they fix one issue then add another, the programmers all seem to be ex Microsoft employees.
MrTangent said:Here's what I did to fix it: Go to Season Pass Manager, and make any rearrangement in the season pass list. I moved my #2 season pass to the #1 spot.
It showed "Please wait" for several minutes (as usual for a season pass rearrangement), but after that the To Do list was back to normal. Whew!
I did the same thing as MrTangent and it worked for me. My deleted shows are still there. The only things that I thought were weird initially was the fact that in the history it says AI won't record on Tuesday and Bones won't record on Thursday. Then I remembered the President will be speaking on Tuesday night shifting Fox's schedule.Jhon69 said:Did it wipe clean your recently deleted folder?.
All DVRs could have been hit, but depending on the channel they were tuned to, may or may not have been hit.lonewoolf said:Did not read all fifteen pages of this thread but what DVR'S , if any, were not affected?
yeah, sure, the STB software could be changed to avoid this problem, but my point was that since all types of STBs were affected then most likely they were behaving according to the specification and they should not take the blame for this.Ken S said:Except that the STBs could have code to protect themselves from these types of errors. I'm pretty sure several people around here have told me that's the way it should be.
Actually the receivers support messages, and at least with the old Dtivo's they used to always have some kinda message showing up. So really that would be a great way to do it.Tallgntlmn said:Why use email? Why not use the messaging system on the receivers? Unless of course that went away on the newer receivers. Then if you see it, great, if not, so what? Like the one that went out 3/5/08 that just said FiFi Test and nothing more.
It would probably take longer to get it approved at that late hour on a Saturday than it would to send. You are right about that.
This "event" should also put DirecTV on notice how vulnerable networked boxes could be to a "clock-reset" worm, e.g., now that ports can be opened that allow individual boxes to be seen from the public internet. /steveJeremy W said:All DVRs could have been hit, but depending on the channel they were tuned to, may or may not have been hit.
That means that there perhaps millions of subscribers (some of whom don't even know that the clock-setting error occurred) who will never see the one-off recordings they had recently requested. If they eventually become aware that a desired movie was never recorded, they probably won't be sure who or what to blame.Doug Brott said:In my case I was 100% OK ... so there is some progress, but it's kinda clear this affected a lot of people. I'd say lack of lock up is an improvement. In this bad situation, things self-repaired ... last time a reboot was required...
This begs for the obvious retort: D* decided to build their own POS (saving 5 cents per month per subscriber) instead of asking TiVo to build an MPEG-4 DVR. I blame the long-departed Rupert Murdoch.Christopher Gould said:... The HR series is DirecTV's first in-house DVR. Ask a Dishnetwork customer who had Dish's first DVR, the Dishplayer/Webtv, how many years that thing didn't work right.
They were aware....its more a case of the left hand and right hand communicating better on the issue.anleva said:One impact of this system-wide glitch for me was that I was unable to watch the Mega March Madness package I subscribed too. They did come back after I finally did a complete system reset.
I sent DirecTV an email about this glitch and also the impact on Mega March Madness. I finally received an email reply back saying they have not received any reports of other incidents I described and that they will resend my system authorizations today (Tuesday). :lol:
I guess nobody bothered to tell DirecTV of the problem as they are completely unaware that it happened.
That's what I assumed, hence my use of the sarcasm emoticon.hdtvfan0001 said:They were aware....its more a case of the left hand and right hand communicating better on the issue.
Shhh, Stuart don't be spreading that around, everyone will want one.....Stuart Sweet said:That's because all of your DVRs have been upgraded to use the GTIA chip :lol:
Sure beats CTIA.Stuart Sweet said:That's because all of your DVRs have been upgraded to use the GTIA chip :lol: