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Well, the new DVR is freezing up just as often as the old one was. Fortunately, the things I really wanted recorded I either watched live, or watched TV close enough in time before they were on that it didn't freeze before recording them, so I haven't missed anything else so far...

But... what the hell? The old machine was good for two weeks, and this is an entirely different box. I *know* it is, I saw them pu the old box on stack A and give me this one from cabinet B. Normally, I'd conclude that the problem is elsewhere in the system, but... er... how?

So, one more test to see if I really do have to take it back, cancel Comcast DVR, and go back to digital cable, with a VCR to record the stuff I really want to see. I navigated the menus (the menus still work, even though the signal is frozen -- I can unfreeze the signal just by changing the channel, too, so it's not completely frozen anyway) to set it to record starting at 10:30, which is [check clock] 8 minutes from now. If it can record even while the display is frozen, then this is not a real problem.

I realized that, given what happened Sunday, I have no evidence that the missed recordings and the signal freezing are related, since it was *only* ever skipping Battlestar Galactica, that I can prove (everything else was episode 5 of 'save the last 4', so I wouldn't be able to tell the difference). And it might have been skipping Battlestar Galactica every time but the first because I didn't have it set to record duplicates... and the screwed up first recording (where it only got the first 30 minutes of a two-hour show) might have been because Galactica was (wrongly) set as the lowest priority.

So, there's a faint hope. For another six minutes, at least.

Tick tock, tick tock...

EDIT: Yay! It started recording! Now I get to wonder if I can really trust it for at least another few days. };)
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