On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 15:49:00 -0700, you wrote:
>Have any of you ever experienced any problems with a DVR? I have a less than
>6 month old Pioneer DVR which I no longer can control. It came up with a
>question asking if I wanted to change the channel to record a show, but I was
>in the other room and never acknowledged. The question then remained for
>another 4 hours and I could not clear it. In desperation, I pulled the plug.
>When I plugged it back in, it asked if I wanted to initialize, which is the
>DVR equivalent of formatting and wiping the drive. I stopped. The DVR now
>plays through that one channel, will not change channels, will not turn off
>and on and will not display the menu. I am reluctant to pull the plug again.
>Pioneer told me how to do something with the TV guide (it has on-screen TV
>Guide), but I can not even access that screen in order to follow their
>instructions and they are closed for the weekend. Have any of you ever
>encountered this? I do not want to wipe the drive; I have a number of
>programs that we
>have not watched including the ceremonies at Lotta's Fountain at 5:12AM on
>Tuesday morning commemorating the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Roger Helbig
>
>PS .. if any of you are 24 enthusiasts .. we never watched Monday's 24 either
>.. my wife and I look forward to watching the episodes together - so I am also
>looking for a copy of Monday's 24 episode.
As someone posts as a sig.....
don't use a computer fix for a domestic appliance (don't fix a Babylon
problem with a Star Trek solution)
Sir Hugh of Bognor
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Remember. You may honestly believe that you understood everything
you thought I said but what you thought you heard wasn't
exactly what I said.
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