vendredi 27 mars 2015

New Tivo Roamio causing eye strain

Wondering if anyone can solve this mystery.



My trusty Tivo HD was finally rebooting enough or me to upgrade to a Roamio. So I order it and a Mini for my second TV.



I plug the Roamio in, and after watching it, start getting eye strain headaches, the muscles around my eyes feel tired and sore. I had none of these symptoms using the Tivo HD. I am using the same television, the exact same video settings, same cable card, even the same HDMI cable, the only difference is the Tivo unit. It is much worse when streaming content, not as bad when watching live TV, and the Tivo menu's don't seem to be causing it to much, if at all. Given that a Tivo Mini handles everything through streaming, I haven't even unboxed it to test it out, I'm pretty sure it will trigger the same issue.



This is not unprecedented for me, I had previously tried a Roku stick on a TV that caused me zero problems, yet got the same eye strain issues when I watched anything on the Roku stick. Apparently the TV has the ability to generate an image that bothers me, but only certain hardware actually causes it to do so.



Does anyone know the difference in the video card output used in the Tivo HD vs the Roamio? I tried messing with video settings on the TV, no real difference, I couldn't find any video settings on the Roamio that I could use t change the display. This occasionally happened with some content on the HD, Amazon On Demand HD content would trigger me, but SD content would not. YouTube videos on the HD dod not trigger me, Youtube videos on the Roamio do. YouTube videos on the TV itself (It's a panasonic Smart TV so it has the exact same YouTube app that the Roamio has) do not trigger me, I even tried the same video on both devices, TV fine, Roamio triggered. I was also triggered watching videos transferred/streamed from pyTivo, even when ffmpeg was doing no transcoding at all.



It's mostly academic since I ordered a replacement drive from weaknees and am going to return the Roamio and Mini, but it is quite the (painful) mystery, so I thought I'd throw it out there.




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