cncpro said:It also could be that you're on a different generation of DVR box too ? MAybe one generation is OK then another is bad.
Very possible.
One thing is for sure... With the Dish Network problems if we kept the DVR storage nearly empty it would be OK but if we let the memory get half full the crashes would start up. It was really strange. If a show crashed at 3min and 15 sec into a program it would crash at that spot every time without fail. Then once you learn where the bad section is on that episode you could fast forward through it and watch your show... Until the next freeze. At it's worst I've had 5 or 6 crashes in a 30 minute show. Somehow I managed not to smash it into little bits and pieces (just barely).
Oh, that happens to me too. When you say crash I figured something more like the whole system went down and you had to pull the plug out of the wall to reset it. Interestingly my wife and I have noticed similar behavior during some recorded shows, but by no means all of them. I find that I have enough recording timers set that I am constantly deleting shows just to keep any open space on the thing...rarely do I have less than 100 recording available to me. Lots of kid shows, stuff the wife likes, stuff I like, the occasional movie or two when they run the free HBO or SHowtime promos for a weekend, etc. I was very frustrated by a particular show that experienced this signal dropoff problem and one day we hppened to be at home and just watched the show...sure enough, the live broadcast dropped off at the exact same time the DVR cuts out temporarily...the problem was signal loss on one channel and further investigation led me to conclude it was always that same channel...I don't recall which one.
For awhile I figured the hard drive was going out on me and it had a few bad sectors, but it was the broadcast. Might indicate I need to take down a tree or two since it doesn't happen at all this time of year when the leaves are down, or maybe the house has settled a bit more and I should get the crew out to realign the dish again.