I've been lurking here for over a year and a half now. This forum has been a gold mine for legitimate information on the Replay scene. Now I need to ask for all y'alls help.
I have a 3030 upgraded a couple of months ago to 80 hrs. w/ a 5400rpm drive. All was honky dorry up until I got home from work today. I turned on the RTV to record THE hockey game and got the "No Video Signal Detected" screen. Typically the Replay shows this screen for a couple of seconds after changing the channel on the digital tuner it is connected to. But today it went on, and on, and on... I started changing channels, and kept changing channels, but to no avail. My wife said she got to see her Y&R this morning with no problems.
So I changed the input to straight cable, eliminating the digital tuner. Same screen. Horrible pain. Next was routing my VCR's RCA cables to Inputs 1 and 2. Again, the hideous blue screen. So during the second peroid I had the unit unplugged, and plugged it back in during the intermission. Again the same problem.
So here is my assessment. The MPEG encoder chip is out. I don't think that there is any sort of diagnostic built into the unit to determine this from my end. Please, someone prove me wrong on this point. I want to know for sure what happened.
Now what I am asking all y'all is this. Is it as bleak as it sounds. If so, should I try to get the unit repaired/replaced by SonicBlue, or bite the bullet on this unit and get another one?
I have a 3030 upgraded a couple of months ago to 80 hrs. w/ a 5400rpm drive. All was honky dorry up until I got home from work today. I turned on the RTV to record THE hockey game and got the "No Video Signal Detected" screen. Typically the Replay shows this screen for a couple of seconds after changing the channel on the digital tuner it is connected to. But today it went on, and on, and on... I started changing channels, and kept changing channels, but to no avail. My wife said she got to see her Y&R this morning with no problems.
So I changed the input to straight cable, eliminating the digital tuner. Same screen. Horrible pain. Next was routing my VCR's RCA cables to Inputs 1 and 2. Again, the hideous blue screen. So during the second peroid I had the unit unplugged, and plugged it back in during the intermission. Again the same problem.
So here is my assessment. The MPEG encoder chip is out. I don't think that there is any sort of diagnostic built into the unit to determine this from my end. Please, someone prove me wrong on this point. I want to know for sure what happened.
Now what I am asking all y'all is this. Is it as bleak as it sounds. If so, should I try to get the unit repaired/replaced by SonicBlue, or bite the bullet on this unit and get another one?