Alice is terrified!

A software glitch is freezing playback of stored shows on some DirecTV boxes that access TiVo’s digital video recorder service. The glitch apparently is caused by a software upgrade, version 3.1.0c, that was first downloaded by DirecTV TiVo set top (first generation, not Series2) boxes earlier this month, according to postings to a number of TiVo community sites.

TiVo said it is working to resolve the problem with a software upgrade.