I've had a TiVo-HD DVR for two months. This week I wanted to record all episodes of the bicycle race (Tour of California). Two oddities, one much worse than the other:
When I created a wishlist for sports/bicycle, it found the episodes on Versus, but there's duplicate HD broadcasts on the "golf-HD" channel. Those didn't show up in the wishlist. The more ominous problem occurred twice: I'd try to begin watching a recording while it was still being made. When I clicked the "play" button on the remote, it would show that the recording was "stuck" at zero elapsed time. If I toggled the TiVo to "live TV" it would tell me that the program was being recorded, but it still showed a blank black screen and the record progress bar stuck at zero elapsed time. If I asked the remote to select the HD "golf" channel, it would display a few frames of video with accompanying audio, then freeze an image on the screen with no audio. Once that happened, I couldn't tune to EITHER Versus or the Golf HD channel. A Comcast customer service rep told me he could verify that my Cablecard was receiving signal (it's the new card type that can do mulistream). He suggested I reboot the TiVo by unplugging it, then plugging it in again. When I did so, the DVR went through all the stuff I saw when I plugged it in the first time, but when it was done I could see and record Versus again. Any idea whether this is a known issue with the TiVo HD DVR (the less expensive "Series 3" version available now), or is it more likely a problem with the broadcast? The problem happened again today, the unit having recorded 3 stages of the race without difficulty in the interim. Jim Robertson --
