Samsung HD and Seagate ST31000322CS Playback Issues
Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 2:28 pm
Hi
A few months ago I upgraded my Samsung HD box with a Seagate ST31000322CS. There were no issues with the transfer and the box has been no more or less reliable than it was before the upgrade. However there have been a couple of niggles, one of which is getting to the point where the wife is saying "fix it".
The first minor niggle is you can clearly hear the disk working. Before the box was effectively silent. I can't hear the fan. I can live with this, esp. given the problem below.
The second niggle which does need addressing is the stalling of HD playback. What happens is the picture and sound freezes for a few seconds and then re-starts but not at the point of where it froze (so it's not effectively paused - you just miss the few seconds of picture/audio). If you re-wind the program back to before where the missing segment was it will again miss this out, so I imagine it must be caused by the recording. It only happens on HD. It seems to be worst on ITV HD and Corrie but I've also seen it on other HD channels. The wife is now getting to the point where it needs to be fixed and I'm concerned that with BBC1 going HD from tomorrow we'll be seeing this problem more often.
It will do it with just one channel recording. The frequency of the problem occurring is as far as I can tell not increasing, but it probably occurs in two corrie recordings every week.
Anybody have any thoughts?
If it means a new disc that's fine - I can use this once else where. I can't really afford to do a full re-installation as there are too many programs we'd lose. I could tell the wife not to watch Corrie but there may be unintentional consequences with this course of action
Cheers - Kev
A few months ago I upgraded my Samsung HD box with a Seagate ST31000322CS. There were no issues with the transfer and the box has been no more or less reliable than it was before the upgrade. However there have been a couple of niggles, one of which is getting to the point where the wife is saying "fix it".
The first minor niggle is you can clearly hear the disk working. Before the box was effectively silent. I can't hear the fan. I can live with this, esp. given the problem below.
The second niggle which does need addressing is the stalling of HD playback. What happens is the picture and sound freezes for a few seconds and then re-starts but not at the point of where it froze (so it's not effectively paused - you just miss the few seconds of picture/audio). If you re-wind the program back to before where the missing segment was it will again miss this out, so I imagine it must be caused by the recording. It only happens on HD. It seems to be worst on ITV HD and Corrie but I've also seen it on other HD channels. The wife is now getting to the point where it needs to be fixed and I'm concerned that with BBC1 going HD from tomorrow we'll be seeing this problem more often.
It will do it with just one channel recording. The frequency of the problem occurring is as far as I can tell not increasing, but it probably occurs in two corrie recordings every week.
Anybody have any thoughts?
If it means a new disc that's fine - I can use this once else where. I can't really afford to do a full re-installation as there are too many programs we'd lose. I could tell the wife not to watch Corrie but there may be unintentional consequences with this course of action
Cheers - Kev