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PVR fast forward problem

easygoing
Organizer

Lately when I was watching a recorded program and tried to fast forward, at certain point during the fast forward, it just jumped right back to the beginning. Now the recording would not go past that point.

 

I contacted service, all they did was reset the whole system, but would not fix the problem

 

Any idea what is going on.

 

Thanks.

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KMoshea
Friendly Neighbour
Same here please

A-B
Community Manager
Community Manager

Will do. 

This is also happening to me.    No rhyme or reason to when it happens, what show, what time.   So frustrating. 

Hey this is exactly the problem I’m experiencing. I noticed it maybe a couple weeks ago and it seems more and more recording are affected. Do I need a new PVR?

This is exactly the same problem I’m having. I noticed it a couple weeks ago and more and more recording seem to have the same problem. Do I need a new VCR.

KMoshea
Friendly Neighbour
Hey,

We got a new pvr and it does seem to have resolved the issue at the moment. Best of luck! It was super frustrating

KMoshea
Friendly Neighbour

We are also experiencing this problem. We've had it before and then they did some update which seemed to fix it for a while, but it's happening again now. It's pretty frustrating to get 1 hour and 20 minutes into a 2 hour show and then have it stop. The file becomes corrupted and it will no longer play on either box. Could someone please advise on how to fix this? I've reset both boxes and the internet multiple times and in my experience once it happens on that recording it doesn't ever get fixed. Doing the troubleshooting only helps so much because it's an intermittent problem and so while it may seem like it is fixed after a reboot, you don't actually know it didn't work until it happens again. When this happened previously, we called Telus at least half a dozen times going through the same steps. 

DarthFarley
Friendly Neighbour
Right?!? It just seems strange that the same thing is happening to different people around the same time.

KMoshea
Friendly Neighbour
I agree. And I know someone else that just asked Telus to replace their box because of the same issue.

McQuaig3
Friendly Neighbour

We’ve done all the same steps and it stillmhappens

From what I understand, the PVR box can become out of sync with Telus (sounds daft to me, but whatever). Usually Support can do a reset that fixes the problem, but couldn’t connect to mine so I ended up having to switch it out with a replacement. New one works fine, but still annoying nevertheless!

KMoshea
Friendly Neighbour
We’ve had them do that before too. But the problem is it seems to work but you don’t really know until it does it again. Very frustrating for sure

A-B
Community Manager
Community Manager

I'm going to forward this to Kate again as well as our Optik development team to continue their investigation. Very much appreciate your patience, everyone.

Hi there. Having exactly the same problems. Has been ongoing for months although when I reset the box, it seems to allow me to record and rewind live TV again. But most of the PVR programs will stop if I FF and require me to start up again. The weirdest was in one instance, the FF actually skipped over content. I would FF and it would miss about 3-5min of programming. Very strange. 

A-B
Community Manager
Community Manager

Indeed it is. This issue has been forwarded so when they look into things and reference this thread, your reply here will be included.

When Kate and / or your development team have found out what is going on with that many users having the same issues, would you be able to share their findings with us?

 

It would be interesting to see what they have to say.

McQuaig3
Friendly Neighbour
Absolutely I will

A-B
Community Manager
Community Manager

That will be at the discretion of the development team. 

KHR
TELUS Team Member
TELUS Team Member

Hi @easygoing @JAT-AMV @KMoshea @DarthFarley 

 

My first recommendation when things like this happen on the legacy Optik 4K PVR is to attempt a sequential reboot of your internet gateway, followed by your PVR, then all of your Wireless/Wired Digital Boxes. Detailed instructions are here: https://www.telus.com/en/support/article/how-to-reboot-your-optik-system 

 

It's worth noting that some of the 4K PVRs are starting to show their age and hard drive failures are increasingly common, so an equipment replacement may be in order, which can be accomplished by contacting technical support.

McQuaig3
Friendly Neighbour
Yes this has been done a number of times and it still happens

KMoshea
Friendly Neighbour
Yes we have done the sequential reboot many times. I am being shipped a new piece of equipment so hopefully that resolves the issue.