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Tivo Series 3 seized up

Posted by Jazz Inmate on April 30, 2008 at 15:10:55:
What started as an occasional hang or hiccup in my Tivo has now grown into full-blown dementia and the DVR will no longer allow me to watch broadcasts over the air. After months of flawless operation, the Tivo became problematic for watching HDTV. The problems escalated and for the past month I watched only standard def, which was no fun. Then that became problematic but I could usually trick the Tivo into letting me watch by changing channels or rebooting the system. As of this past weekend, the Tivo doesn't even recognize channels or keep accurate time anymore. It's a glorified doorstop. I finally convinced Tivo to do something about it and I received a new unit today, but I'm afraid the same thing that happened to my first unit will eventually happen again.

What could be causing these problems? If it was a hard drive failure, the symptoms would be much different, I think.
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