I have been having trouble with my 921 since I hooked up my OTA antenna this weekend. Can anyone tell me if they have noticed similar issues or if there is something I am doing wrong.
First, I guess I never realized that you can only use one OTA channel at a time. If you are recording one then you can't watch another. Guess that makes sense though b/c there is only one line from the antenna.
Anyway, I seemed to run into problems when recording off the OTA antenna and trying to watch something else coming in from the satellite. The receiver is really slow to respond to channel changes, viewing the guide, etc. And several times last night the receiver crashed when trying to record one thing and watch another. Is this something that can be caused by diplexing my antenna feed with my satellite feed or is this more just a limitation of the receiver and the processing power it takes to record one HD feed while watching another.
Then at a certain point last night after the unit had crashed a couple of times and i had to restart it (soft reboot and pulling the plug) I could no longer get any signal from any of my digital OTA channels. The weather was bad last night, and my outside antenna is not wonderful, but channels that usually come in at over 100 signal strength were at 0. I am now getting no signal for any of my digital OTA's. It is still raining today, but the weather was somewhat bad yesterday when I was watching FOX OTA with no problems. All I get on all of my digital OTA's is a message that says "Channel XX not found". I am able to get a weak signal from my one analog OTA channel. I am worried that somehow something blew inside the receiver and the digital OTA tuner is busted. Does this sound possible? Has this ever happened to anyone else? Could it just be the bad weather? I live in an urban area (oakland, CA), and usually get real strong signals from most of the digital OTAs, but as I said, my antenna isn't wonderful, but I should expect to get at least a weak signal during bad weather, shouldn't I?
thanks for any help!
dan
First, I guess I never realized that you can only use one OTA channel at a time. If you are recording one then you can't watch another. Guess that makes sense though b/c there is only one line from the antenna.
Anyway, I seemed to run into problems when recording off the OTA antenna and trying to watch something else coming in from the satellite. The receiver is really slow to respond to channel changes, viewing the guide, etc. And several times last night the receiver crashed when trying to record one thing and watch another. Is this something that can be caused by diplexing my antenna feed with my satellite feed or is this more just a limitation of the receiver and the processing power it takes to record one HD feed while watching another.
Then at a certain point last night after the unit had crashed a couple of times and i had to restart it (soft reboot and pulling the plug) I could no longer get any signal from any of my digital OTA channels. The weather was bad last night, and my outside antenna is not wonderful, but channels that usually come in at over 100 signal strength were at 0. I am now getting no signal for any of my digital OTA's. It is still raining today, but the weather was somewhat bad yesterday when I was watching FOX OTA with no problems. All I get on all of my digital OTA's is a message that says "Channel XX not found". I am able to get a weak signal from my one analog OTA channel. I am worried that somehow something blew inside the receiver and the digital OTA tuner is busted. Does this sound possible? Has this ever happened to anyone else? Could it just be the bad weather? I live in an urban area (oakland, CA), and usually get real strong signals from most of the digital OTAs, but as I said, my antenna isn't wonderful, but I should expect to get at least a weak signal during bad weather, shouldn't I?
thanks for any help!
dan