bertieb Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 We only watch the FTA channels via Foxtel, as we live in a gully in Sydney and the reception is woeful, even with new antenna + amplifier. It works fine (except for the crap picture quality), but last night on Prison Break, the picture was skipping and glitching all over the place right through the entire episode. We havent seen it before and it wasnt there this morning. It was incredibly annoying. Did anyone else experience this ? bertieb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forest Lake Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 We only watch the FTA channels via Foxtel, as we live in a gully in Sydney and the reception is woeful, even with new antenna + amplifier. It works fine (except for the crap picture quality), but last night on Prison Break, the picture was skipping and glitching all over the place right through the entire episode. We havent seen it before and it wasnt there this morning. It was incredibly annoying.Did anyone else experience this ? bertieb I watched channel 7 last night for about 4 hours and yes the picture was skipping and glitching.I live in Brisbane and its a relief as now i know my television is not faulty lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shogun III Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 Glad I watched Heroes in Hi Def then ... although I recorded 24 last night, so hopefully it isn't glitchy. I've also noticed that lately both 7 and 10 have been ghosting. Has anyone else noticed this? I would have thought that would have a decent aerial for their analogue retransmission. BTW, I'm in Brissy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomlc Posted February 16, 2007 Share Posted February 16, 2007 Glad I watched Heroes in Hi Def then ... although I recorded 24 last night, so hopefully it isn't glitchy.I've also noticed that lately both 7 and 10 have been ghosting. Has anyone else noticed this? I would have thought that would have a decent aerial for their analogue retransmission. BTW, I'm in Brissy. I'm pretty sure it was Heroes that was glitchy as well let me know if not . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaryCook Posted February 16, 2007 Share Posted February 16, 2007 I recorded Heroes on IQ and it was virtually impossible to watch. Picture freezes whilst audio continued, heavy pixelation etc. Prison Break was so bad I simply gave up. I thought is was my IQ unit, did any one else have problems with these 2 shows recording on IQ? cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomlc Posted February 16, 2007 Share Posted February 16, 2007 Oh and I dont have IQ but heroes did freeze a fair bit but the audio kept going so wasnt a problem , just annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aussyspeed Posted February 16, 2007 Share Posted February 16, 2007 I recorded Heroes on my IQ and just watched the entire show and there was only 3 frame jumps, no skips or pixelation problems. The frame jumps were so quick that if you blinked you would miss it. Thus was possible to watch for me. Do not watch Prison Break so cannot comment on that show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdelrm Posted February 16, 2007 Share Posted February 16, 2007 how do you 7 on Foxtel IQ? Thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aussyspeed Posted February 16, 2007 Share Posted February 16, 2007 The analog retransmissions of channels 7 and 10 are available through Foxtel when connected via Cable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluffybundles Posted February 17, 2007 Share Posted February 17, 2007 We watched Heroes today (well tried) and gave up on Prison Break, taped on the IQ. The freezing was annoying and although we could get it to start after stopping it and starting again, it would only last a few seconds. Thankfully 24 wasn't affected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
revboy Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 Glad I watched Heroes in Hi Def then ... Don't mean to burst your bubble but 576p is not high def. I did a post about this about 7 HD not being Hi def. Channel 9 and 10 are though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taspool Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 Ditto on the Heroes problem - video freezes whilst sound continues, restart only fixes it for a few seconds. Also a new glitch for us, reaching a point in a recorded program that literally crashes the IQ - power goes off and it then reboots itself. Repeatable error just by reaching same point in program, which suggest a bad sector on the disk to me. Anyone else with this one? rgds, Greg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaryCook Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 : Ditto on the Heroes problem - video freezes whilst sound continues, restart only fixes it for a few seconds.Also a new glitch for us, reaching a point in a recorded program that literally crashes the IQ - power goes off and it then reboots itself. Repeatable error just by reaching same point in program, which suggest a bad sector on the disk to me. Anyone else with this one? rgds, Greg Hi Greg, that's exactly the same problems we were having and I came to the same conclusions (bad hard drive sectors). Since more than one person is commenting on those exact same symptoms, my guess would be a transmission problem, not a hardware problem. It is pretty unlikely that all of use would have the same hard drive problem whne recording the same shows. Maybe the more technical guys can comment further. cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomlc Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 :Hi Greg, that's exactly the same problems we were having and I came to the same conclusions (bad hard drive sectors). Since more than one person is commenting on those exact same symptoms, my guess would be a transmission problem, not a hardware problem. It is pretty unlikely that all of use would have the same hard drive problem whne recording the same shows. Maybe the more technical guys can comment further. cheers Dont have IQ and had the same problem so its definately the transmission. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shogun III Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 Don't mean to burst your bubble but 576p is not high def. I did a post about this about 7 HD not being Hi def. Channel 9 and 10 are though. Fear not, I wasn't in that bubble Maybe we should rename 7 HD to 7 PHD ... pseudo hi def ... although giving them a PHD might be a little miss leading as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaryCook Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Had that same problem with the IQ recording of Heroes again, except this time it wouldn't play at all. Anyone else have the same problem? cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ibanez5 Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Fear not, I wasn't in that bubble Maybe we should rename 7 HD to 7 PHD ... pseudo hi def ... although giving them a PHD might be a little miss leading as well 576p is only ED or "Enhanced Definition" So I call 7"HD" 7 ED. I refuse to recognise 576p as High Definition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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