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Tivo Problems

I turned on the TV today and the screen had an evil green vertical line down the middle and a jumpy, fuzzy picture. No good. Was the TV broken? I checked the PS2 and its picture came through fine. I went back and tried the tivo menu, which showed fine but the background was all messed up. Was it Tivo? Maybe it was the cables. My roommate had an extra set. Still bad. Maybe it was the video in on the TV? We tried a different set of plugs, still no good. Maybe it was the video out on the Tivo? We tried an S-video cable. No luck.

So I put all my years of experience in the computer industry to work, and we restarted the tivo. It came back up in a couple of minutes and the picture was fine.

Whew.