Thomas Costick
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I upgraded from a PVR9200T (which had died) to a HDR-FOX-T2 in October. I don't watch TV much, but my family do. It was only recently they informed me the new PVR isn't 100% reliable. Sometimes it misses recordings, or stops halfway through. Also, recently the signal strength/quality had become very intermittent (it was perfectly OK when we got it), down to ZERO sometimes.
Since the HDR-FOX T2 seemed OK when I set it up, I suspected a problem in the cable from the aerial (all that damp weather, maybe). We have another TV in the house (without a PVR) and it never has signal problems. So I replaced the relevant cabling to the HDR-FOX T2 but, annoyingly, there was no improvement. It still showed ZERO signal strength/quality.
In desperation, I swapped in my old PVR9200T (I had repaired it, new hard drive) and it reported a good signal: 60% strength, 100% quality. Swapped back to the HDR-FOX T2 and signal was back to ZERO.
As a last resort, I tried auto retune and it found ZERO stations.
Question: Has anyone experienced this kind of thing? I'm guessing it's a case of return for repair, but I wonder how common this is and if there's anything else I can do to fix it. I believe it has the latest software, which I upgraded via USB pen drive in October.
Since the HDR-FOX T2 seemed OK when I set it up, I suspected a problem in the cable from the aerial (all that damp weather, maybe). We have another TV in the house (without a PVR) and it never has signal problems. So I replaced the relevant cabling to the HDR-FOX T2 but, annoyingly, there was no improvement. It still showed ZERO signal strength/quality.
In desperation, I swapped in my old PVR9200T (I had repaired it, new hard drive) and it reported a good signal: 60% strength, 100% quality. Swapped back to the HDR-FOX T2 and signal was back to ZERO.
As a last resort, I tried auto retune and it found ZERO stations.
Question: Has anyone experienced this kind of thing? I'm guessing it's a case of return for repair, but I wonder how common this is and if there's anything else I can do to fix it. I believe it has the latest software, which I upgraded via USB pen drive in October.