Everything was fine UNTIL (VOD issues?)

[ohioankev]

I woke up this morning and watched American Horror Story: Coven and Sons of Anarchy and my Hopper played them flawlessly. After SOA I decided I wanted to watch an episode of Deadwood from HBO via Video on Demand and that is where the fun begins! My Hopper becomes sluggish, acts like it's in a loop of switching back and forth from the VOD to Live TV so I restart my box. When I restart my unit and the Hopper starting splash goes away I stare at a black screen, no standby screen saver but I press the power button and my Hopper powers on. I tried HBO on Demand again the same thing happened, I had to restart my unit just to regain control of it again. It's so great to no be able to use a feature that you pay to use on a TV service. I hardly use Dishes VOD and I haven't really experienced problems with my Hopper except for the week when SYFY shows would be four times their normal size on the DVR. However that problem hasn't happened since I posted about it.

 

[lucky86]

I never see problems like that. Is it only on HBO content? Can you try some other content and see if you can narrow it down?

 

[ohioankev]

I'm not sure what the issue was but all seems to be working now. I tried what you suggested and streamed Torchwood Miracle Day and it worked so I gave HBO VOD/GO another shot and it's working. I do know at the time I was having issues it wasn't my internet because I was playing an online game/surfing the internet at the time and didn't have any issues.

 

[KAB]

I do know at the time I was having issues it wasn't my internet because I was playing an online game/surfing the internet at the time and didn't have any issues.

Perhaps THAT was the issue.

 

[Mike_H]

hopper will freak when the internet is messing around. I had to reboot it after a internet glitch when it was downloading some VOD and it just started flipping back and forth from the current view to the view of the VOD list.