Digital Video Recorder...
I have been using Dish Network DVR for the past couple of months now that I've been living at home again. It works OK but I have a couple of complaints against it. First it doesn't seem to be very intelligent when it comes to automatic recording. It works best when what is playing totally jives with the TV Guide schedule but if it doesn't you end up recording shows you didn't want. This especially happens on channels like TNT that show sports programs that tend to go overtime. When you have it recording all episodes of a certain program it also can't tell if what is playing later on in the day or the next day is the same episode so it won't record it again. I've had to delete duplicate episodes of Voyager because of that.
I also have noticed lately that when idle the set top box has a light buzzing sound. It was driving me crazy last night. I noticed it stopped buzzing if I put my hand or anything on it but after a few minutes it starts buzzing again. I tried looking up on the internet to see what it could be and some said it was either heat, or a buzzing transformer or it was something you can fix by putting something under the box so it wont rattle against what's underneath it. It's strange to me that I could temporarily stop it by putting my hand on top of the box or even by nudging the box a little moving it a tad.
Someone else said it's just normal for a DVR to be making noise like that and like with refrigerators and computers a person will get used to it. It was driving me crazy though. Computers have becoming quieter and quieter all the time. My Mac Mini is whisper quiet especially when it's idle. The oldest computer we have here sounded like an old refrigerator when on and it was a huge relief when we would turn it off. Fan sounds and other hardware buzzing can be noise pollution which I have tolerated but never have got used to.
When it comes to hardware the quieter the better in my opinion.
I also have noticed lately that when idle the set top box has a light buzzing sound. It was driving me crazy last night. I noticed it stopped buzzing if I put my hand or anything on it but after a few minutes it starts buzzing again. I tried looking up on the internet to see what it could be and some said it was either heat, or a buzzing transformer or it was something you can fix by putting something under the box so it wont rattle against what's underneath it. It's strange to me that I could temporarily stop it by putting my hand on top of the box or even by nudging the box a little moving it a tad.
Someone else said it's just normal for a DVR to be making noise like that and like with refrigerators and computers a person will get used to it. It was driving me crazy though. Computers have becoming quieter and quieter all the time. My Mac Mini is whisper quiet especially when it's idle. The oldest computer we have here sounded like an old refrigerator when on and it was a huge relief when we would turn it off. Fan sounds and other hardware buzzing can be noise pollution which I have tolerated but never have got used to.
When it comes to hardware the quieter the better in my opinion.