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A couple months ago, my Philips DSR704 started experiencing problems on tuner #2. The picture was pixellating every now and then (sometimes, every few seconds, other times once every few minutes).
I checked satellite signal strength and found that tuner #2 was dropping signal, then reacquiring, over and over, on several transponders on all three satellites.
Suspecting a bad cable, I swapped the inputs. But the problem stayed the same. Setting up the box for tuner #1 only (it doesn't matter which cable I use, either works) also gets rid of the problem--but then of course I can only record one show at a time.
Based on lots of online searching, I determined that the tuner was most likely failing. I ordered a "bare bones" refurb from WeaKnees, which arrived yesterday. I popped my HDD out of my box and into theirs.
To my surprise, it experienced the same issue -- which leads me to believe that it's NOT a failed tuner, but something else which is causing this problem. A WK tech recommended unplugging the S-video cable and restarting the machine to see whether this changes anything. It does seem to help some people, so I have it on my "to do" list when I get home tonight. I hate the idea of losing the s-video, but if that solves the problem, then I guess I'll deal with it.
Has anyone else experienced a problem like this? Any idea why an output would affect the satellite input? Can you recommend any other solutions that I might try?
A couple months ago, my Philips DSR704 started experiencing problems on tuner #2. The picture was pixellating every now and then (sometimes, every few seconds, other times once every few minutes).
I checked satellite signal strength and found that tuner #2 was dropping signal, then reacquiring, over and over, on several transponders on all three satellites.
Suspecting a bad cable, I swapped the inputs. But the problem stayed the same. Setting up the box for tuner #1 only (it doesn't matter which cable I use, either works) also gets rid of the problem--but then of course I can only record one show at a time.
Based on lots of online searching, I determined that the tuner was most likely failing. I ordered a "bare bones" refurb from WeaKnees, which arrived yesterday. I popped my HDD out of my box and into theirs.
To my surprise, it experienced the same issue -- which leads me to believe that it's NOT a failed tuner, but something else which is causing this problem. A WK tech recommended unplugging the S-video cable and restarting the machine to see whether this changes anything. It does seem to help some people, so I have it on my "to do" list when I get home tonight. I hate the idea of losing the s-video, but if that solves the problem, then I guess I'll deal with it.
Has anyone else experienced a problem like this? Any idea why an output would affect the satellite input? Can you recommend any other solutions that I might try?
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