I was offered a RCA DVR-39 Tivo Box on loan from friend, and given what I'd read about the current DirecTV DVR's, I went with this option over the recent "free" R15 offer from DirecTV.
All seems fine, except that the DVR seems to like rebooting automatically when I'm watching TV late at night. Being a nightowl, I'm sometimes still watching after 1am, and three or four times in the last two weeks, its just auto-booted for no particular reason. (No idea if its also rebooting during the day while I'm at work!)
I've wondered if it was something to do with service updates being applied, and the system needing to reboot to complete this process. (I've also found it "recording" between midnight and 1am a number of times, and found the other tuner showing a blank screen except for a notice about updating my DVR service.) However, after the last reboot last night, I checked the system information screen for the times of the last service updates, but they don't correspond to the times the system has rebooted, or the times its been "recording" the blank channel.
If it took 20 seconds or so to reboot, like my stand-alone receiver, I'd live with it. But this Tivo unit takes around 5 minutes - which is particularly annoying when you're watching a gripping foreign sporting event which I've shelled out extra $$ to watch on PPV!
Is this a "normal" feature of the system? If so, is there a way I can move this operation to sometime like 4 or 5 am, when I'm not likely to be watching it? If not normal, is there anything wrong I should fix?
Thanks
All seems fine, except that the DVR seems to like rebooting automatically when I'm watching TV late at night. Being a nightowl, I'm sometimes still watching after 1am, and three or four times in the last two weeks, its just auto-booted for no particular reason. (No idea if its also rebooting during the day while I'm at work!)
I've wondered if it was something to do with service updates being applied, and the system needing to reboot to complete this process. (I've also found it "recording" between midnight and 1am a number of times, and found the other tuner showing a blank screen except for a notice about updating my DVR service.) However, after the last reboot last night, I checked the system information screen for the times of the last service updates, but they don't correspond to the times the system has rebooted, or the times its been "recording" the blank channel.
If it took 20 seconds or so to reboot, like my stand-alone receiver, I'd live with it. But this Tivo unit takes around 5 minutes - which is particularly annoying when you're watching a gripping foreign sporting event which I've shelled out extra $$ to watch on PPV!
Is this a "normal" feature of the system? If so, is there a way I can move this operation to sometime like 4 or 5 am, when I'm not likely to be watching it? If not normal, is there anything wrong I should fix?
Thanks