Occasional pixilation is to be expected, the feed going from the local station may well be a satellite feed, which could have a momentary blip of it's own, so the pixilation could be in the source, not the recording.
Also good to know about the DVR expander, I was thinking that I'd be able to add one at my pleasure, but since I got an upgraded drive in it, it requires special efforts to marry the two drives as the stock firmware won't handle the upgraded drive along with the DVR expander on it's own. It does make me glad I went with the larger drive from the start, the 300 gig drive (or is it 320 gig, not sure), offers me 188 hours at "high" quality, which is very close to the same bit rate as the digital cable recordings, which turns out to be plenty of space. Glen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jay Abraham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 6:21 PM Subject: Re: [TiVo Central] Re: Tivo pixelating > Hi all, > > I think I've solved the problem now. They asked me to try and > isolate the problem by unplugging the DVR expander. This stopped the > freezing and rebooting at the expense of all my recorded shows. > Couldn't transfer many over to my other Tivo or computer as this > would cause a freeze and reboot. I let it run the whole week and it > didn't reboot at all though I had some pixelation and loss of sound > for couple of secs during an episode of House last week. > > Tivo directed me to Western Digital to get drive replaced so I'm now > waiting for a new drive. Hopefully this will be the problem and > there is no issue with the Tivo HD as well. I did look at some > reviews for the DVR expander and some people complained that they got > pixelation all the time and when they removed the DVR expander the > pixelation stopped. This was with a non Tivo box so it Tom, the > issue may be your DVR expander. > > Will keep you updated once the new DVR expander is in and running for > a few weeks. > > Regards, > > Jay
