NYCCABLE
@acml.com | reply to Catch228
Re: Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8000
Does anyone know when Time Warner plans on offering the DVR service in New York City? |
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dukie1993
join:2003-04-16
Fairfax, VA
| reply to MarkJaquith
Does anyone know how to record something just once per week? The two options I have w/ my SA8000Exp are "record once" and "record always" this leaves me with either setting up recording of, say, South Park, every week to get the 10:00pm Wednesday show, or around 7 episodes recorded w/ 9:30pm shows and 12:00am shows recorded too.
Thanks,
Dukie1993 |
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dukie1993
join:2003-04-16
Fairfax, VA
| This is my message to Cox and the response I received:
Dear Mr. Hancock:
Thank you for contacting our Cox Northern Virginia Online Customer Care
Team.
Unfortunately, that is one limitation of the DVR service. If you select the 'record always' option it will tape ever occurrence of the desired show. Please be assured, we are aware of this issue and will hopefully have an upgrade available soon to correct this problem.
If you need additional information on other Cox products or services, please visit our web site at »www.cox.com/fairfax.
We hope that we have been able to provide you with the information you requested. If we have not, or if we can be of any additional service to you, please do not hesitate to contact us again.
My name is Kris
Thank you for choosing Cox Communications!
Sincerely,
The Cox Northern Virginia Online Customer Care Team
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Comments: Is it possible to record something just once per week with the new DVR? The two options I have w/ my SA 8000 Explorer are "record once" and "record always" this leaves me with either setting up recording of, say, South Park, every week to get the 10:00pm Wednesday show, or around
7 episodes recorded w/ 9:30pm shows and 12:00am shows recorded too.
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MacGyvr
@rr.com | Just got this box today, and I can pick any combination of days I want the recording to take place. You must have old software. |
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scorpiox
join:2002-05-05
Bristol, CT | reply to KevinG79
I believe that is illegal copying there sir.  People like you are reason the RIAA and Hollywood are spending millions to take away our freedom of home recording and copying. |
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BangBang
join:2000-07-05
West New York, NJ
 ·RoadRunner Cable
| Thats crap. Some people may want to burn their shows to cd. Not everyone owns a VCR anymore
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Raul Roman
@cox.net
| reply to TheRealFixer
I got one on Friday(4/25/03) and have the following observations.
It is slow compared to my old digital cable box.
It is prone to crash for no good reason (3 time so far)
The interface is very nice and if it was faster and more reliable I would have to give it two thumbs up. But since it keeps crashing and it sometimes won't come back up for 10 or 15 minutes this thing is going back to COX. |
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Konaguy
Live From Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
Premium
join:2000-10-21
Kailua Kona, HI
 ·Hawaiian Telcom
| reply to scorpiox
said by scorpiox  :
I believe that is illegal copying there sir. People like you are reason the RIAA and Hollywood are spending millions to take away our freedom of home recording and copying.
I have spoken to my cable company (Oceanic Time Warner Cable) and hooking up their DVR unit to your computer
is not illegal. As far as I can see its just like making
a recording on your VCR except your putting it on VCD/DVD.
Tell me the specific law that makes this illegal.
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MacGyvr
@rr.com | No one has yet answered the question of HOW you are connecting the box to a computer, other than just running the video into it. |
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Konaguy
Live From Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
Premium
join:2000-10-21
Kailua Kona, HI
·Hawaiian Telcom
| There are video capture cards you can buy for your computer
as far as I understand. You can connect the A/V slots
to the video capture card on your computer and bingo
thats how you do it.
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dukie1993
join:2003-04-16
Fairfax, VA | reply to MacGyvr
So you have more than just record once and record always. Does yours say, record wednesdays at 9pm, or record wednesdays, or this timeslot, or what? |
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tx210guy
@rr.com
| Speaking of the USB port on the Explorer 8000...for my computer, I have a Microsoft Wireless Desktop (Keyboard and Mouse) I connected the USB receiver to the 8000, and it powered off, and powered back on with a message saying..."External Programming Keypad Connected" "Enter Programming Access Code" it has a box that you enter the code into with the keyboard. So far, no luck in entering the code correctly, but it will allow you to enter it as many times as you like. The box looks like it holds about 10 digits. When I removed the USB receiver, the box powered off and back on to normal mode. Anybody know anything on this one?
Steven |
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vsg
join:2003-05-09
Charlotte, NC
| reply to dukie1993
I've got my Explorer from Time Warner Carolina. Looks like they have newer software.
In Series Recording (their 'Season Pass', press 'List' then 'C' on remote to get there) you have multiple recording options:
- record 'New Episodes' or 'All episodes'
- record show on 'All channels' or a specific one
- record 'All times' or a specific one
- record on particular day of week, weekends or workdays
"Don't expect to be able to go on a 3 week vacation and have it record all your shows."
This is not true. It will record all shows from now on until you cancel series recording. It'll display the episodes to be recorded in 'Scheduled recordings' only for the next several days. But every time the IPG data is updated, next episodes are added to the schedule automatically. |
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vsg
join:2003-05-09
Charlotte, NC
| reply to Catch228
To get to the beginning of the video being recorded without rewinding go to the list of records. Then select the show (with a red mark next to it indicating it's still recording) and hit 'Play' button.
Another trick to resume a show from the middle without rewinding. If you watched some record for a while and want to finish viewing it later, don't stop it using 'Stop' button. Instead switch to a different channel. Then if you go to the list of recordings and select this show again, you will have an option to 'Resume playback' from the moment you switched to diff. channel.
About the video quality. I don't care much about fast motion, but the recording quality could be better. I would like a 'quality' option added to the recording settings. Something like 'Standard', 'LP' or 'SLP'. |
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Chizep
Premium
join:2002-04-07
Concord, NC
| Hello vsg ! Welcome to BroadBandReports.com!
You and I are neighbors. I live in neighboring Concord, NC and am very curious about the TW PVR. I've already got digital cable and am pretty happy with it.
How long have you had your PVR? Has it crashed any? I know channel tuning is a little bit slower than the Explorer 2100 boxes (what I have now.)
I'm curious to hear from someone who lives near me and is on the same cable system and I presume would have the same equipment. |
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shogun77
@rr.com
| reply to vsg
N.C. user here also. I've had the Explorer for about a week now and I've been using the heck out of it. I love it even though I've had a few problems with it so far. Like just a minute ago I went to check on a show it recorded and for some reason it only recorded the first minute of the show. A few days ago it only recorded 20 minutes of a 30 minute show. I can't figure that one out.
Also is anyone having the problem of it NOT recording "first-run" eps only when it's set to do just that? |
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vsg
join:2003-05-09
Charlotte, NC
| reply to Chizep
I've had it for a half a month. Have not crashed on me yet. Sometimes it freezes for a second or two when switching from recording to live TV. But I don't mind it.
Channel tuning is even slower than my old digital box. One reason is that it always records current channel to support rewind/repeat (I am a little worried about constantly working hard drive J). So every time the channel is changed it has to remove old file and start a new one. But I don't usually surf channels, instead I surf IPG, which is fast enough.
Haven't had any problems with recording yet, i.e. all my programs (including first run episodes) were successfully recorded.
Overall it's worth trying. It takes five minutes to exchange the old cable box to a DVR in TW office. |
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Simflyer
join:2003-05-13
Oak Island, NC | reply to shogun77
First run not working for me either. TW EC says they are looking into it. |
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gooodoo
@rr.com | reply to shogun77
Same problem here. ALso would like to know how to record multiple shows from different channels concurrently while beeing able to start each show 2 minutes early and end it two minutes from end time.
THanks for your comments and help |
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Chizep
Premium
join:2002-04-07
Concord, NC | Ok then. I think I'm going to patiently wait for them to work out the bugs! That's what I needed to hear. Thanks fellas (and/or ladies.) |
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