Talk:Troubleshooting/@comment-86.166.230.72-20180121131405

Looks like Freeview have finally killed-off my two Digital Stream PVRs. Both failed 21/01/2018; both stuck at 'loading'. Disconnected one from the aerial feed and reinstalled full firmware and was then able to boot-up normally and view and watch recorded programmes, but of course cannot record new ones. On reconnection to the aerial the same failure has occurred repeatedly; I presume that something nasty is being transmitted (Winter Hill). On the odd occasion of boot-up the PVR could not see anything on its HDD (recordings were still there and became visible on firmware re-installation). I have tried only 'installing' a very limited set of stations (all HD); this didn't stop the rot getting back in. Have now given up and will use one just to view recorded programmes. I'll probably switch to Panasonic now. Thank you Freeview for trashing both of my PVRs, which were working perfectly well until last Tuesday.