I have a couple of old ReplayTV DVRs connected directly to my cable, with no cable box. These are analog-only cable-ready devices, so they can only tune the local channels, which are still being sent in both analog and digital formats (we're supposed to lose analog in a week or so, and I got a DTA, but I have a signal issue that's preventing the DTA from tuning these channels).
This has been working fine, until last night. When I tried to record CSI: Miami, the entire recording just had a single still frame and no sound. And when I tune to the channel now (15 hours later), it's still stuck on that frame (Wolfe talking to Horatio). At first I thought it might have been something screwed up with the DVR, but it's on both DVRs. It's only happening on that one channel (channel 4, Boston WBZ), the other channels are fine. What's weird is that the recording started at 10pm, but the frame it's stuck on is not from the beginning of the show.
I did an online chat with Comcast this morning -- she wanted me to disconnect and reconnect things, make sure that cable connections are tight. I appeased her, but knew it was a waste of time. There's no way that a connection problem could cause symptoms like this -- it can cause a poor image and breakup, but not a perfectly clear picture that just doesn't change for hours. She said she'd forward the report to technicians. It's been 6 hours, it's still stuck.
Has anyone ever seen something like this before? Could it be related to the fact that they're discontinuous analog next week?
