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Several months ago we bought a new Roku equipped TV, an RCA, probably near the bottom of the line.
It has been great so far, but within the last month it has started skipping about a second or two of the audio, maybe about once every 10 to 15 minutes.
I can't decide whether it is a cable input problem, a signal problem of some other sort, or my TV's audio system going bad somehow. Mostly this is off live TV and recorded programs; we have not tried it with something off the Roku (to our knowledge at least) but will do that tonight to see if it's doing the same thing with a program off Roku.
Is the signal coming through a cable or satellite receiver with a DVR? Sounds like it is, and the DVR is acting up a bit. I know when I hit the "back" button to watch something again (Dish Hopper receiver), it goes back 10 seconds. If I forget to go back to "live TV", after a few minutes it'll skip and the picture will even pixelate. It's because the hard drive has a bit of trouble with only a 10 second delay ... I suppose it's trying go catch up.
Unless I'm mistaken, if you have a receiver with a DVR, all the programming is recorded and that enables you to back up, up to an hour, then fast forward, pause, etc.
The signal is coming through the DVR box from the cable company. Last night we decided to use the Roku part of the TV instead of the cable, and did not have the audio skipping problem. So you could be absolutely right - the "cable box" might be acting up. Never thought of that. We'll give it another try tonight.
Never get pixellation here (but do in Florida) but it's just the audio skipping. What I did after starting this thread is go back into the TV settings, go over to the audio, and change the audio to "stereo." It already was on auto-detect and "stereo" was the choice it'd selected, but changing this has mostly stopped the skips. Maybe just messing with it stopped them - who knows?
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