During playback the dvr will skip or freeze up. What would cause this to happen? Could this be a hard drive issue?
916602
Is it hooked into a receiver or directly to the TV? If it is the receiver try bypassing it and hooking it directly to the television. If not, try a different television. I have found this happens if the tuner in the receiver or television is of poor quality.
916603
Possibly. My hard drive on my first unit crapped out on me & I had to return it for a warranty replacement. Before it completely died, it was making a noticeable clicking noise & I was having some skipping issues. The skipping issue in your case could be a loss of television signal during the recording though. If the entire unit freezes, unplug the unit, wait 10-20 seconds, plug it back in, & see if that remedies the problem. If it is a hard drive issue, you can replace it with another hard drive fairly easily I believe. Check out the AVS Forum for compatible hard drive. Hope this helps! Possibly. My hard drive on my first unit crapped out on me & I had to return it for a warranty replacement. Before it completely died, it was making a noticeable clicking noise & I was having some skipping issues. The skipping issue in your case could be a loss of television signal during the recording though. If the entire unit freezes, unplug the unit, wait 10-20 seconds, plug it back in, & see if that remedies the problem. If it is a hard drive issue, you can replace it with another hard drive fairly easily I believe. Check out the AVS Forum for compatible hard drive. Hope this helps!
916604
This can be a reader issue or hard drive. The scanner reader electronics is going bad or the hard drive is locking up. Need to send into Channel master to be repaired.
916605
In my experience any skipping or pixelation occurred because of poor signal reception.
916606
Another possibility is a reception problem during recording, so I'd suggesting waiting to see if it happens on more than one channel and that you have really soild reception when not recording. Although I've not had this problem, other strange things have rarely occured, and usually unplugging the power cord for a minute or so and plugging back in solves it.
916607
Hard drive is a possibility, also could be poor over the air signal strength.
2100994
defective cameras? a setting in the dvr? Have you tried swapping one of the working color cameras? We used this on 6 color cameras with no problem at all.
725645
My first DVR from Security Man worked great for about 3 months. Then, nothing. Would not playback, erase, nothing. I purchased anouther one due to the price, it has been working great for about 2 months. I'm selling the house now, I hope it lasts til closing.
1989639
My StarTech capture card does the same thing. Playback is perfect. Guessing Picture and sound could be offset to compensate for dropped frames if necessary.
429111
Yes, I record off of mine all the time. However, do not set it up to record (with the timer) from the DVR with a Premium Channel like HBO; any other channel works okay.
1184839
While it doesn't require any drivers to run, the "drive" itself may require formatting. Check if your DVR allows to you point at a storage device other than the onboard default drive, and if it requires any additional formatting like FAT32, Linux, NTFS, etc.
292934
I think the issue is on your DVR, not the cable. If you are seeing the video it's not the camera or the DVR. You may need to enable the channels to record. I'm pretty sure every time I added a camera in had to tell the DVR to start recording the new channel.
948328
Try a different input on ur DVR that you know works correctly. If it still does not show color, u have a defective unit as the night/low light feature is automatic. These cameras are built very well and I have had no problems so far.
1369042
I had the same problem and the video playback was choppy. I don't think this product works very well. I wish I had an answer for you.
810796
Yes, lots of recording problem. It would keep going through file recovery mode. Had to switch to class 4
572728
I purchased one and installed on my DVR box (SA Explore 8300HDC). The DVR recognized the drive and prompted for formatting the drive. Another reboot of the DVR and every thing works. I did not lose my previously recorded video. Thanks,--CY
593630
If you are looking at the video on the unit that's not unusual because of limited (aka "slow.) playback memory. What the skipping usually is, is that the playback stops to take time to load more video, play, stop to load more video. That's usually the source of the problem and is not actually on the video that way but rather just how the playback works. Have you downloaded the video to your computer and assuming that your is relatively new and fast, you may (should) find that the video runs normally.
1777250
I think that may have something to do with the camera switching to night mode (black and white) when there is not enough light and then the DVR not recognizing that the camera is still sending a picture-you probably want to leave the setting on AUTO or EXT if possible.
1432059
I don't think so ... the commands indicate that a disc is required in the drive before recording can begin. You should probably investigate TiVo.
1895961
I have two DVD recorders. One is the Sony RDR-GX315 which seems to reject discs at random ("This disc can neither be recorded or played") and will not record premium channels from the DirecTV DVR. The other DVD recorder is the Toshiba D-R410. I have had it for about a month and it has not rejected and discs and records successfully any program from my DirecTV DVR. If you have an HH Gregg store in your area, you might be able to pick up the 410 new in a box for under $100.
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What programming did you record to the DVR that you wanted to put on disc?Some channels, including premium channels like HBO put an interval signal in their content that prevents recording. It makes devices such as the Sony DVDirect think there is no active input signal and thus it will not record. I found it impossible to make discs of VOD content as well due to this feature. Most recently I was unable to burn the HBO miniseries THE PACIFIC to DVD because of this feature.
1319232
Unfortunately I'm having the same issue. It continually records but it breaks as a 2 minutes video clips. I just got this cam not too long ago so I will have to figure out how to fix this problem and I'll let you know.