Over the past week I began to get repetitive and frequent audio dropouts with my HD TiVo. These now happen about once or twice a minute, and are extremely annoying. My video is fine, and I don't experience any pixelization, etc. at the time the dropouts occur. While I have had periodic audio dropouts since I've had this thing, they've only been a handful of times (at most) during an hour-long show.
My unit is hooked up to my receiver using the optical cable, and these occur on both SD and HD channels. Also, they happen on older recorded material, that previously didn't have the dropouts. I have swapped the end of the optical cable that's plugged into the TiVo to a DVD player and had no audio drops with a DVD feed.
Are these the beginnings of hard drive problems, and if so, why doesn't the video drop too?
Or did Directv/TiVo do something new to the software? I have the same version I've had for a while, yet my 30-second skip feature deactivated itself again (this was usually a telltale sign of some kind of software patch/upgrade).
I've tried the clear season passes/To Do at the direction of Tech Support, but that didn't solve the problem. A few weeks ago I bought a spare WD 250GB drive that I was planning to use to upgrade the TiVo, but I suppose if I can't get this resolved I might try a drive swap to see that works...
Has anyone else developed this problem in the past week, and if so, have you been able to fix it?
Thanks.
Craig
My unit is hooked up to my receiver using the optical cable, and these occur on both SD and HD channels. Also, they happen on older recorded material, that previously didn't have the dropouts. I have swapped the end of the optical cable that's plugged into the TiVo to a DVD player and had no audio drops with a DVD feed.
Are these the beginnings of hard drive problems, and if so, why doesn't the video drop too?
Or did Directv/TiVo do something new to the software? I have the same version I've had for a while, yet my 30-second skip feature deactivated itself again (this was usually a telltale sign of some kind of software patch/upgrade).
I've tried the clear season passes/To Do at the direction of Tech Support, but that didn't solve the problem. A few weeks ago I bought a spare WD 250GB drive that I was planning to use to upgrade the TiVo, but I suppose if I can't get this resolved I might try a drive swap to see that works...
Has anyone else developed this problem in the past week, and if so, have you been able to fix it?
Thanks.
Craig