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Re: [TV] Shaw controls their PVRs Im not surprised they can do that and i dont blame them. If you cant pay your bill then you dont deserve to have the service. |
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| said by jrsaysbiteme:Im not surprised they can do that and i dont blame them. If you cant pay your bill then you dont deserve to have the service. agreed |
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ErikRP
join:2004-11-06
Winnipeg, MB Reviews:
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1 edit | said by cableguy84:said by jrsaysbiteme:Im not surprised they can do that and i dont blame them. If you cant pay your bill then you dont deserve to have the service. agreed Whoa, slow down there.
It's not that I can't pay a bill, I didn't, for reasons that are none of your concern or business. I was simply making an observation that a piece of hardware that I own outright would not allow me to watch previously recorded material. While the technology is different, it's essentially the same principle as if I could no longer watch what I had recorded via a VCR, or a non-Shaw PVR (i.e. digital recorder).
I (now) understand that the interface used by the device requires an active connection with Shaw, which means anything a person records must either be deleted or removed via Firewire, since I'm not aware of any other way of extracting a recorded show from the box.
Go do your judging somewhere else. |
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| And even then, you'd have to use a non-authorized firmware hack, to enable the firewire functionality on anything other than the Pace PVR units. But if you're doing that... I imagine they have firmware that would allow the box to function, without a provisioning state, as just a standalone PVR of some sort. |
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 jbcalgPremium
join:2001-10-08
Calgary, AB | reply to jrsaysbiteme
said by jrsaysbiteme:Im not surprised they can do that and i dont blame them. If you cant pay your bill then you dont deserve to have the service. LOL -what a cheery soul you are
no idea why the OP hadn't paid bill - don't care
i didn't pay mine because i forgot - i get the email notification but no longer have a paper bill from another service to remind me it's due
- my fault
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but when Shaw calls and says: please call us, without leaving a number or department, or name
i was a little surprised to be cut off 5 minutes later when i was finally able to speak to someone who could access my file
the Rep was equally surprised and switched it back on without a penny being paid in payment - she looked at the logs and said they never do a cut-off 5 minutes after leaving a message 
i paid in full anyways while speaking to her
... and am drafting my oh-so-polite letter to Shaw suggesting just maybe they could include a 'last payment date' line in their auto-email about the bill being available
my point - it's not what was done, but how it was done
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