... I was trying to record ABC which is my weakest OTA @ 55-65% (other channels 78%+), so that may be the problem and I'll have to keep monitoring it. I would've thought the recorder would just go blank and keep recording for the full hour instead of shutting down. I noticed my unit thinks today, Tue 11/25/2014 is Thur 11/20/2014, but the schedule is showing the correct shows for today. I don't see a way to correct the date anywhere either.
Hmm, you and tmm99 both have offsets in the date. Odd. And you are in the same broadcast area as I am, so that's not the issue. You might want to check the mediasonic and/or AVS forums on that one.
Update on my 'signal strength theory': I had another recording dropout (just my second in ~ 3-4 months), this time 15 minutes into Jeopardy. So I experimented a little by recording some lower Q stations. I have the signal split to my Vizio TV and the PVR. The Vizio reports most stations ~ 50-60 quality level, while the PVR reports most at 100.
I found one station that the Vizio reported at 10 (IIRC from earlier antenna experiments, this is the threshold where the Vizio starts breaking up), but the picture was fine, and another station at 22. The PVR could barely decode the one at 10, a few seconds of picture, then pixelation and dropout, and the picture would come back. The one at 22 appeared fine.
So I recorded the one at 10, and let it go for 17 minutes, and even though I was getting messages that the signal was dropping, and offering to 'exit', it kept right on recording. I payed it back, and synced a kitchen timer to it, and it never lost a beat through the 17 minutes I recorded. This, even though the picture was dropping in and out all the way through. So scratch that theory?
Co-incidence? I just realized that both times we have had drop-outs, we had a house full of guests, several of them on phones, tablets, computers, etc. Interference?
I think I'll check in with those forums and see what I can find.
-ERD50