Hi guys

In the last 2 weeks my PVR80 has started jumping/glitching on playback. I'm talking about milliseconds of no sound or the sound and picture jumping. Very irritating...especially when watching comedy. This is onlt on playback of something recorded. The jumping appears to be random. Watching TV straight off the the air is fine. Any ideas why it's doing this?

The signal is 75%, the quality is good, the ariel has not moved (it's attic mounted). The latest software (18/11/08) is on the box.

Have turned the power off to the box and restarted it with no success in curing the issue.

Any suggestions?

Thanks guys

Ant

Has your local transmitter been upgraded recently?

I live in Scottish Borders, and when the Selkirk transmitter was upgraded in November 08, I started getting the same issue. I ended up taking back the DTR80 for a refund as a replacement had the same problem. (I now own a Sagem ECO 64160 which works fine on the same ariel! ).

Thanks for thats.

It's not encouraging news, but we aren't due for digital switching until 2012.

I'll check the transmiter status all the same.

Thanks again.

I had something similar with my DTR80. After rescanning the channels and rearranging the aerial in my loft, which often does the trick according to much of what you read in the forum, I discovered that the culprit was my computer. The computer is located next to the TV/PVR.

Moving the TV/PVR a few inches further away from the computer and tidying the cables so that they too were further away from the back of the computer did the trick.

Out of sheer lazyness I haven't bothered to experiment and discover which was the offender - the PVR, TV or cables. I suspect one of the cables.

The reason why the 'skipping', as I called it, only occurred on playback and not 'live' was because watching live nearly always meant that the computer was off, or at least quiescent.

Just a thought, but how full is the disk? I've read elsewhere on this forum that the Digihomes can get quirky with a disk more than 75% full. It does sound possibly consistent with a fragmentation issue (a recording scattered across the disk in non-contiguous bits of free space).

Ah, yes, it's about 75% - thanks.

Will try to slim it down.

It's not near a pc. It's near the TV (naturally), but always has been. No new wires or anything, but thanks all the same.

Does anyone know if and how the hard disk can be defragmented? I mean other than deleting everything!

Hi

Well, the good news is that I watched a load of stuff (that had recorded pre-glitching' and deleted it and it now seems fine. Thanks all. The bad news is that I essentially only have a 60gb recorder, not an 80gb.

Defragging would be wonderful - anyone know if if can be done?

pvr's do not tend to need defragging. unless you keep it 95% full all the time there is unlikely to be any benefit. besides easiest would be just to empty it.

Hi
I have a pvr80 and its later twin record model , i used to get the same problem from
time to time (it can cause the box to lock up and give just a black screen and only a complete unplug reset would restore the system ) i returned three units to argos who replaced them no problem before i found the cause of the problem.
IF YOU REPLACE THE DOWN LEAD FOR SCREENED SATALITE CABLE (assuming your antena is ok , ours was a new one ) I THINK YOUR PROBLEM WILL BE SOLVED , if you
check your signal (ON SOME) channels you will find that even if you have a good signal, the quality is going up and down this is drops even lower when the second tuner is used to record (one tuner feeds the tv the other the hdd ) if you take or lend your unit
to a friend you my find they do not have any trouble at all.
Other members of our family have the same units so you are looking at four in total now split between worcester shrewsbury and sutton coldfield and these all give very
good service .

Thanks.

Although the problem is solved, I'll look in to that in case of future issues.

I've spent a gr8 2 hrs reading about PVR80s - & learnt about the 30 sec skip which doesn't appear in the instruction book. Many thanks.

Now, can anyone tell me how to rename a recording? I can rename a channel so the software must be there. The recordings edit button doesn't seem to let you do this!

Can't be done.

If it's for a manual timer you could if you really, really needed to, rename the channel first before you set it up, which it then uses as the recording name. But you don't (I think) get a programme description then either.