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reply to Joe Siegler

Re: [TWC] Dallas/Ft Worth Metro Vol II -- Time Warner

Makes me wonder if the copy bit on TiVo's will get relaxed. Probably not, though. TWC is notorious in preventing virtually everything except OTA channels from being copied from TiVo to TiVo, even when they're NOT supposed to be doing it.

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reply to Joe Siegler
Does anyone know why Time Warner utilizes iGuide on their boxes? It has become my nemesis over the years.

With my latest box, many of my series recordings have circle-backslash symbols next to the show title instead of the series recording icon. Whether or not a scheduled recording will actually record is anyone's guess.

When I'm a little bit behind "live" and I fast-forward, sometimes the box will just jump to "live" instead of fast-forwarding. This is incredibly awesome when I'm watching, say, a close call during a Ranger game over and over (to examine the details). Instead of slowly catching up to game between pitches, suddenly I'm "live" and have missed, say, a game-changing home run.

I could go on, but then I'd never stop.

"Does anyone know why Time Warner utilizes iGuide on their boxes?"

Iguide is the guide for Motorola boxes. The cisco/SA headends use a custom guide called Navigator.

Hob
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"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm in Mesquite and they use Motorola boxes. Is it worth complaining about?

I just can't believe that in this day and age they're handing out boxes with such antiquated software.

everyone in the metro uses motorola boxes that is it and the software is the most current Iguide verison the last version has problems with remote commands so it is getting better.

reply to JayM34

I agree that it has gotten better. Up until recently, it was more or less expected that the DVR would freeze up during time shifting attempts.

But better does not equal good.

• I know about favorites lists, but why can't I just hide channels on the default TV Listings list? When browsing for a channel not included in any of my favorites lists, I shouldn't have to browse through hundreds of channels I either don't use or to which I don't have access.

• Why can't I change the order in which my favorites lists are accessed? Any time I create a new list, it becomes first in line and that's not always the desired behavior.

• Why can't I time shift forward, when near the end of a recording, without having the DVR immediately jump to the end of said recording?

• And what if I don't want to choose whether or not to delete to recording at that point, especially when jumping to the end of the recording was not the intended action?

• Why can't I enable closed captioning without turning off the box and accessing the super secret menu that I only learned about through a thread on this forum?

• This probably goes with my question regarding the ability to hide channels, but why should I, as an end user, care about or even be able to see duplicate channels that exist only to serve customers with a different type of service than mine?

• And why, when I add one of these duplicate channels to a favorites list, do I end up with duplicates on my favorites list? That defeats the purpose of a favorites list.

That's enough for now...

reply to Joe Siegler
I agree with all of your points... however, the hiding channels in the guide list is strictly a marketing issue...

They want to force you to see the channels that you might not be getting without paying for another tier.

I too wish you could hide channels in the guide.... had that on my direct TV boxes as far back as 1999.

reply to JayM34

Thanks for the responses, guys.

did TWC give you the CLICKR 5 remote as I have the ATLAS OCAP remotes?

I want them to add FearNETHD but I don't think they will ever do that. That looks like a great channel from what movies Ive seen they have on their.

But I think TWC has something against fearnet though because they had the Fearnet OD before and took it off for some reason, that was a cool Ondemand channel.
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reply to motorola870
What is "The Texas Channel"? I googled for it, and it seems to be a channel just like that TWC sports channel in the 180's that's all local stuff (like FTW Cats games).

In fact, I just looked at the TWC channel lineup, and 185 is now called "Texas Channel" (It wasn't called that before).

So what's the deal with 170 then? It's not in the "move" category on the thing you posted.

they are duplicating it on 170 and adding 171 Texas Channel Espanol. These channels are grouped together like this on the other TWC systems in the State except on chs 888 and 889.

reply to Joe Siegler
Any Tivo s3 owner experience crashing with TA on?

Lately 40% of my record shows would give fit while playing back, my Tivo s3 would halt then reboot by it self. The problem with reboot is you have to go though with TA set-up again, it's a fairly long wait till the led lit on solid to get all the channels back.

First i thought the hard drive could be the problem, may be a bad sector or two somewhere, but then i remove the TA from the connection and have not experienced a single breakout!!, or any of the "channel not found" crap, and it's not longer rebooting. Look like the TA could be the problem here, it's degrading the signal significantly!!! (the constant breakout and channel not found)