Mar 12 2009
Damn TiVo – Fix The Bugs
Well the TiVo honeymoon is over, I’m sorry to say. I’ve begun to run into issues with my TiVo. Actually, it’s just one issue: picture freezing. When watching a show, sometimes it’ll just freeze. The only way to fix it is to change the channel, but this isn’t ideal because if I’ve got both tuners recording, one of them is going to stop recording something.
This happened to me today in fact. A minute or so of the show seemed to stop recording, leaving a big black screen with no audio.
From what I’ve read, it seems to be a problem introduced with the v11 software and that was at the start of the year. We’re in March now and they still haven’t figured it out.
This seems to be a common occurence on both the official tivo forums and the huge forum at tivocommunity.com People have gotten refurb units which work fine for a while, but after the auto-updater runs in the middle of the night, they begin having problems.
I’m very frustrated right now. I thought that this TiVo would be the solution to my recording needs, but I’m having second thoughts now.