Master Yoda
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Well - I wanted to do a vote to see how widespread the problem is where Play TV keeps skipping / jumping / stuttering during playback...
My freeview signal is perfect (before anyone asks) and I'm getting alot of problems with this device regarding the above to the point where I can't rely on it to record anything at the moment. It seems to be potluck as to whether the recording will actually play back without any skipping or not.
When it works - I think the device is brilliant... just a shame it doesn't work all the time...
I find that recording the channel I'm watching is usually OK, but if I'm watching anything else at the same time (especially if it's being buffered) it will cause the recording to skip regularly (sometimes every 10 seconds or so). If I'm just watching Live TV, I don't get any noticeable stuttering problems - only when recording.
Just to make clear, I'm not asking much of the product, as I'm not even playing games or anything else when I'm getting these problems - just using Play TV.
I've tried reinstalling Play TV about 6 times (as someone said it was caused by upgrading the HDD after installing Play TV) - I did notice that when you delete 'Play TV' it still leaves lots of files in the data folders which you need to manually remove. Only after 'manually' removing all the files and reinstalling did things improve slightly (am no longer getting the constant skipping every 10 seconds), but am still getting unnacceptably bad skipping when playing back recordings...
I've noticed that some people are saying they are getting the same problems, so wanted to do a vote... To be honest, if it's widespread then I will feel very relieved as at least it's a problem that a future patch can fix... If not, then I'm worried what's causing it...
If anyone is getting constant skipping, or never had any skipping at all - please state the PS3 you've got as it might be interesting to see if there are any patterns here...
My freeview signal is perfect (before anyone asks) and I'm getting alot of problems with this device regarding the above to the point where I can't rely on it to record anything at the moment. It seems to be potluck as to whether the recording will actually play back without any skipping or not.
When it works - I think the device is brilliant... just a shame it doesn't work all the time...
I find that recording the channel I'm watching is usually OK, but if I'm watching anything else at the same time (especially if it's being buffered) it will cause the recording to skip regularly (sometimes every 10 seconds or so). If I'm just watching Live TV, I don't get any noticeable stuttering problems - only when recording.
Just to make clear, I'm not asking much of the product, as I'm not even playing games or anything else when I'm getting these problems - just using Play TV.
I've tried reinstalling Play TV about 6 times (as someone said it was caused by upgrading the HDD after installing Play TV) - I did notice that when you delete 'Play TV' it still leaves lots of files in the data folders which you need to manually remove. Only after 'manually' removing all the files and reinstalling did things improve slightly (am no longer getting the constant skipping every 10 seconds), but am still getting unnacceptably bad skipping when playing back recordings...
I've noticed that some people are saying they are getting the same problems, so wanted to do a vote... To be honest, if it's widespread then I will feel very relieved as at least it's a problem that a future patch can fix... If not, then I'm worried what's causing it...
If anyone is getting constant skipping, or never had any skipping at all - please state the PS3 you've got as it might be interesting to see if there are any patterns here...
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