Ah, the voice of the blissfully unknowing. The Black Screen Bug, along with other known issues, are described in detail here:heelsfinl4 said:I'm not familiar wit the black screen bug. Is it similar to what Idescribed in my first post. If so, is Direct Tv planning to do anything about it? Thanks again
lamontcranston said:Ah, the voice of the blissfully unknowing. The Black Screen Bug, along with other known issues, are described in detail here:
http://www.dbstalk.com/showthread.php?t=74448
Unfortunately, there seem to have been a sharp rise in incidents of this bug in the last several weeks. I'm honestly glad to hear that it hadn't hit you before, but at least you're among many friends now that it has.
I didn't want to use the word "ignorant" since I didn't want to offend the OP.mtnagel said:
Ignorance is bliss!
Try leaving the HR20 on 24/7. I had the same problem, but only when I would turn the DVR on from standby. Hasn't happened since.heelsfinl4 said:Three times in the last 5 days, when I turn my tv and the HR20 on, the screen is completely black.
That worked for me for five days, then bam, two BSB's in 24 hours, and not only that I had two failed recordings. As of yet I have not had a failed recording so long as I put the unit in standby every night. As they say, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, so it could be a coincidence.BearsFanInSTL said:Try leaving the HR20 on 24/7. I had the same problem, but only when I would turn the DVR on from standby. Hasn't happened since.
I get the bsb also, tried leaving it on 24 hours like you did and mine would miss the recordings in the morning, last night I put it in standby and this morning it was recording what is was suppossed to. I must admit leaving it on 24/7 did slow down the bsb's some. Well we all asked for OTA and we got it but we got more problems. Funny though I did not get the bsb for over a week after the upgrade, funny thing is I wonder if this is something in the stream that directv is sending out since the hr10 tivo owners say they are having problems also.lamontcranston said:That worked for me for five days, then bam, two BSB's in 24 hours, and not only that I had two failed recordings. As of yet I have not had a failed recording so long as I put the unit in standby every night. As they say, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, so it could be a coincidence.
I'm believe it was a Marketing decision to release OTA vs. fixing the BSB. I also believe that the volume of "complaints" over BSB has actually been smaller than the volume of "complaints" of not having OTA, so they probably made the right decision. If it weren't for the Christmas/New Year's holiday period, I bet we would already have a fix for the BSB. It's just bad timing for this type of bug.jdmac29 said:Well we all asked for OTA and we got it but we got more problems.
Saying someone is ignorant isn't offensive. I just means he doesn't know, which is basically what you said.lamontcranston said:I didn't want to use the word "ignorant" since I didn't want to offend the OP.
Hmmmm....it seems to me that the rate of reporting the BSB skyrocketed after the 0x10b update. I've never had it, so I'm an innocent bystander at this point. I don't recall 80% of those reporting saying they had experienced the BSB before this last update, but the data wasn't being collected then either.brott said:I'm believe it was a Marketing decision to release OTA vs. fixing the BSB. I also believe that the volume of "complaints" over BSB has actually been smaller than the volume of "complaints" of not having OTA, so they probably made the right decision. If it weren't for the Christmas/New Year's holiday period, I bet we would already have a fix for the BSB. It's just bad timing for this type of bug.
Sorry I wasn't clear. Yes, I believe that the BSB reared it's ugly head with the 0x10B release (possibly in 0x104 and/or 0x108 which did NOT go national). However, prior to 0x10B there was a significant amount of chomping at the bit over OTA. I believe (without fact to substantiate) that the clamor over OTA prior to 0x10B was greater than the clamor over BSB is today.hasan said:Hmmmm....it seems to me that the rate of reporting the BSB skyrocketed after the 0x10b update. I've never had it, so I'm an innocent bystander at this point. I don't recall 80% of those reporting saying they had experienced the BSB before this last update, but the data wasn't being collected then either.
It's really hard to get a "comfortable" handle on this one.
Thanks for that input, Doug. I haven't seen this (or properly understood it) until you gave this excellent explanation. I've seen the BSB twice in the past week (I'm grateful that's all) and for the first time I've been frequently leaving the DVR tuned to ESPNHD -- especially at night. But I've also been turning to Standby each night -- so I think I'll continue the Standby but tune away from ESPNHD (specifically a local HD). Not your specific recommendation, but if it's tuner related, the coincidence with ESPNHD may still be the key.brott said:While this will not solve 100% of the problem, try do the following to help minimize your exposure to this bug:
1. Leave the unit "on" (don't put it in standby mode when you leave it)
2. Do NOT leave it tuned to an HD MPEG-2 data stream - This could be DirecTV HD or OTA HD (MPEG2)
3. Try leaving the HR20 tuned to an MPEG4 channel (your HD locals on DirecTV)
Obviously if you have a recording on an MPEG2 channel, then it will tune to that channel to make the recording - nothing you can do about that without canceling the recording. Most of the problems are highly tilted toward being on an MPEG2 channel, particularly an HD channel and very particularly ESPN-HD for long periods of time.
I have noted that there is lip sync "creep" on ESPN-HD where after a while the audio and video get way out of sync. Perhaps at some point, the distance is too great and the software chokes. Perhaps I'm just wrong.
Either way, the times that I have had problems were related to being tuned to an MPEG2-HD broadcast of some sort for an extended period of time. I'm usually tuned to and MPEG4-HD channel and don't experience these problems.
Please fix this now D*!!!!
OTA, MPEG-4 or SD?SParker said:I just had this happen on a recording of The O.C. Black screen and I can't fast forward or anything. I can't RBR right now because Shark is recording. My guess is I'm fubared
MPEG4brott said:OTA, MPEG-4 or SD?
