Picture break-up issues

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  • September 9, 2014 at 3:14 pm #16042
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    Hi,

    Can anyone provide me with some advice, please…

    I have been having problems of late with picture quality on my HDR-Fox T2. Around thirty minutes after turning on the machine (from standby) the picture and sound will start to break up to such a degree that the programme being watched becomes unwatchable.

    The only workaround I appear to have is to turn off the unit at the front followed by the rocker switch at the back. When the machine has stopped whirring, I switch the rocker again and boot the machine from the front. This stops the problem from reoccurring until starting it up (again, from standby, usually later that day or the next morning), when the same problem happens again. I’m rather concerned that I have to daily reboot the recorder in such a way – and the issue is getting tiresome, to say the least.

    Thoughts, please?

    Ed

    edrch

    September 10, 2014 at 5:50 pm #54632
    Anonymous
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    Are you running the custom firmware? If so you could look at the disc temperature under system monitoring. If not can you put your ear to the back of the unit when the picture breaks up to hear the fan, with sound muted of course? How old is the unit? If the fan has packed up maybe its time to talk to humax… Maybe others can be of more help.

    Andy

    September 10, 2014 at 8:54 pm #54633
    Anonymous
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    same question as Andy, are you running CF custom firmware?

    Also what version/s of firmware

    If not set up properly CF can and does cause picture breakup due to extra load placed on the cpu/disk, if set up properly then there shouldn’t be a problem

    If you haven’t CF installed then there’s a load of things it could be and having CF would help diagnose it quicker.

    First thing is to factory reset it, taking a note of your schedule and preferences, don’t format

    Second, is it getting hot/warm to the touch

    Third, which channels and what’s the signal detection levels, does it happen at certain times of the day, does it happen on live and/or recorded programmes

    that’s probably enough questions for now, I think it’s interesting that it only happens after coming out of standby and the first thing I’d be doing is a factory reset, takes a couple of minutes, monitoring it and if it continues seeing if there’s a pattern and posting back with a bit more detail

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