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Offline NJAntman

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TiVo users beware....
« on: August 22, 2008, 10:54:05 am »
Just spent an enjoyable few minutes arguing with the wife over the phone about the Tivo/Cable Box/HD-TV/VCR-DVD combo mish mash from hell not working again. She really doesn't want to take the time (all of 30 seconds) to learn which remotes should be set to what. So whenever life intervenes (such as the 2yr old pressing a button) all hell breaks loose and I receive her irate phone call.

Today's episode involved her trying to watch a Tivo recording and all the demon system would display was "Your DVR session has timed out". I know that message is a cable box error, normally happens when Comcast seems to think we've had one channel on for too long (like an hour or more).

So I go through the whole 30 second checklist of which buttons to push on which remotes. No joy, same error message being displayed. Just for kicks I say, hit the Tivo fast forward button. Click-click, I hear the Tivo system chirp so I know its working but she's still seeing the message.

ME: "Is the fast forward bar showing up on the screen now?"

HER: "Yes, the green bar is on the screen now. But I still don't see anything!"

Eureka. The cable box timed out some time before the Tivo record session was to start and Tivo dutifully recorded the error image.

ME: "Tivos working but the cable wasn't when it recorded, your just seeing a recording of the message."

HER: "Oh.... Dammit, F#&!! Tivo, F&^(*$# Cable; BYE!!"

Yes Dear, love you too.



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Re: TiVo users beware....
« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2008, 04:12:33 pm »
Radio Shack has programmable remotes that you can macro.. Lovely and talented she who must be obeyed wants to watch something, loving husband has programmed button #1.

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Re: TiVo users beware....
« Reply #2 on: August 22, 2008, 06:11:16 pm »
I imagine with enough time i could program a macro command. And as surely as the sun rises I'm sure my two year old couldunprogram it with one push.
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Re: TiVo users beware....
« Reply #3 on: August 22, 2008, 06:26:16 pm »
That sounds jackasses stupid on the part of the cable company. No way in hell should ANY cable signal "time out"
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Re: TiVo users beware....
« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2008, 05:08:09 am »
Quote from: Punisher BishopOfBacon on August 22, 2008, 06:26:16 pm
That sounds jackasses stupid on the part of the cable company. No way in hell should ANY cable signal "time out"

that was kind of my reaction as well.  What sort of cable company "turns off" the cable?  Seems like time to switch companies to me.
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Re: TiVo users beware....
« Reply #5 on: August 23, 2008, 01:39:41 pm »
Switch cable companies. :laugh:
Ha-ha, you guys slay me.

I live in the People's Republic of Jersey. Competition is allowed, but not tolerated. In this region of the Kingdom its Comcast or its, well, nothing.
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Re: TiVo users beware....
« Reply #6 on: August 23, 2008, 01:46:12 pm »


Tony "two toes" runs Cabelvision while "Lucky" Provansano runs Comcast.

I pay protection money to Tony.

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Re: TiVo users beware....
« Reply #7 on: August 23, 2008, 05:53:38 pm »
Quote from: NJAntman on August 23, 2008, 01:39:41 pm
Switch cable companies. :laugh:
Ha-ha, you guys slay me.

I live in the People's Republic of Jersey. Competition is allowed, but not tolerated. In this region of the Kingdom its Comcast or its, well, nothing.

Surely there must be the Satellite option as well?
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Re: TiVo users beware....
« Reply #8 on: August 23, 2008, 06:31:10 pm »


There is.

And stop calling him Shirley.


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Re: TiVo users beware....
« Reply #9 on: August 29, 2008, 05:12:28 am »
hmm she need to learn to control her anger, since i only have simple cable i don't use anything for special tv station mostly because i will have to get a lot of station i don't want to get the one i want and you will pay a lot of money each month for it, sure you can chose from the pack but you still need to get at lest half of them to be Canadian, but you don't offer that much canadian tv station, i got a lot of them that are american.

sometime the remote control is just too much function
Quote from: NJAntman on August 23, 2008, 01:39:41 pm
Switch cable companies. :laugh:
Ha-ha, you guys slay me.

I live in the People's Republic of Jersey. Competition is allowed, but not tolerated. In this region of the Kingdom its Comcast or its, well, nothing.
  why is competition not tolerated?
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Re: TiVo users beware....
« Reply #10 on: September 02, 2008, 11:09:40 am »
I suspect that too many politicians from the local to the state level would stop receiving campaign contributions if true competition happened.
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Re: TiVo users beware....
« Reply #11 on: September 02, 2008, 03:43:54 pm »
Because NJ is run by a bunch of communists and the mob.  You ever watch "The Sopranos?"   it's ALL true.
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« Reply #12 on: September 02, 2008, 05:20:05 pm »


                 

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Re: TiVo users beware....
« Reply #13 on: September 02, 2008, 05:51:55 pm »
I think what is needed is one of these.
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