I always try to watch Rockets games live, but sometimes I have other things I have to take care of first so I record on the DVR. For about 3 weeks now, when I DVR a Rockets game on FSN or My20, it's messed up. The quality is terrible, to the point that you can't even see player's faces or jersey numbers. Sometimes you can't even see if the ball goes in the basket. It is unwatchable. This also happens if I buffer the broacast rather than recording. For example, if I get home 30 minutes after the game starts but it's been on the channel the whole time, and I can rewind to watch what I missed. Well, it looks like crap too. The only option is to hit "Live" and watch the game from whatever point it's at in real-time. At that point, the picture looks fine. I've recorded shows on other stations and they look perfect, so it can't just be my DVR box. I don't get it. Anybody else experienced this?
Well, the problem with that is I'm moving out of this house the first or second week of January. Right now my dad is the subscriber, not myself, so when I move out my DVR will be returned and I'll get a new one when I get the service at my apartment. So if it's a bad DVR, it'll be fixed in a month anyway. If it's a problem with FSN/My20 then that's a bigger concern. I would contact the stations or the Rockets, but I want to see if I'm the only one with the problem first.
That happened with my DVR box a while back, I think you need a new box. I had to replace mine because it began to slowly die, starting with those incidents.
Hmmm. Just seems weird considering that it only happens on FSN and My20, and I just got the box 2 months ago. I suppose there's no point in replacing it now, as I explained above. Hopefully it won't be a problem when I get set up at the new apartment.
I agree with the idea of trying to record something else on those stations. See if that works without errors.
sports requires better frame rates. you may not notice the box starting to go out with normal tv, but fast moving stuff may be affected. the problem is nto with the tv channels, its at your place. I dvred a couple of the games that were showing on FSNHD while I capped the normal channel, no problem on either
So, would commercials be effected? They're screwed up too. Plus I've DVR'd/used the buffer on other sporting events and things were fine.
IIRC, you're with comcast. you should get in line now. it'll take a good week before you get to the front of the line.
Whenever I use to record Rockets games, It would only let me watch them while they were on the air. So I would start watching them 30 minutes after they started and skip through timeouts, commercials and half time. My DVR would automatically delete Rockets games right after. Everything else was perfect, it only did that for Rockets games. I had Time Warner (Comcast) Digital Cable then.
sounds weird, I cant say for sure, I was just advancing a theory all I know is that (thankfully) I have no problems recording to dvr or pc from both channels the Rockets play on but I *do* know that the DVRs that TW/Comcast use dont seem to last for longer than a year without me needing to switch it out due to some problem or the other. so it very well could be that.
you're going to need to reset the box. To do this press INFO, Volume -, and Volume + in that order and hold them down. your box should display the word "boot" within 5 seconds. then it will appear as if it shut off. Wait about 1-2 minutes and the time display will come back on the box. Then just start it up and you should be good to go. This technique also fixes all kinds of other problems with that box.
Thanks. As soon as you said there was a way to fix it, I googled it and found those instructions. I did it last night and it seemed to fix things for today's game.
