I’m watching 24 and I had to pause it for about 1 minute because I was making dinner.  During the next commercial break, I hit the fast-forward button, and was able to make it back “live”.  The problem is that sometimes when that happens, the DVR gets a little “funny”.  It starts getting a little jerky, especially with the audio.  The only way to clear it is to change the channel and then change back.

I did just that during the commercial break and continued to watch 24 live.  Within 20 minutes, I had to address a biological function that was not going to wait for the next break, so I hit the pause button right in the middle of 24.  To my surprise, when it paused, it showed a Target commercial, which was a bit odd since I was in the middle of 24 (I believe a hostage taker was on the phone).  When I got back, I hit “play” and the Target commercial played.  Huh?

I hit the fast-forward button, and eventually the DVR hit live again, and to my shock and dismay, it was showing some award show.  The Golden Globes to be exact.  Huh?  Huh?

The display showed channel 5 and said “24” as the title of the show, but clearly, it was not 24!  Son of a *&%$#!

I guess what happened was that the channel switch that I did to clear up the jerky audio was too fast for the DVR to handle and while I was viewing channel 5, it was recording channel 4 in the background.  Another channel switch, this time slower, cleared it up, but I missed about 45 seconds.  Damn.