Hi-

Just got a new TiVo XL, one M card.

On several stations tonight, glitches every 5 minutes... pixelization and audio dropouts.

This happened a year ago when I tried HD, I truly thought it would be fixed by now.

I have excellent signal... what the heck is causing this, and is there anything I can do?

Thanks!

-Ian

Would someone tell me about the design of cable cards? Specifically, is there a coax cable from the cable jack (from the cable company) that must connect to the cable card on one end, while the other end is plugged into a Series 3 type TiVo machine? I can't get a knowledgeable CSR with Charter Communications to answer the question. (The phone reps have never seen a cable card - only the technicians who don't answer calls).

If a coax cable does indeed connect to a cable card, does a dual cable card require two cables as would separate cable cards?

Finally, does anyone know for certain if Charter requires the use of a tuning adapter with its cable cards, and if so, does it use a coax cable too/alone/at all? I wish I knew what that looked like. Does one tuning adapter operate both cable cards or must there be separate tuning adapters? Are there any pics of cable cards and/or tuning adapters somewhere in this Forum that I might be able to see what these contraptions look like? Do cable operators have a separate monthly fee for "renting/leasing" tuning adapters?

Thanks in advance.

Hello everyone,

I just purchased a 1TB internal hard drive from Weaknees (my original 160GB hard drive failed) and and I also have an External WD TiVo Verified drive. The external worked fine on the origianl drive and in another TiVoHD I have, but it will not marry on the TiVoHD with the new internal 1TB hard drive installed. It is recognized in the TiVoHD setup and asks to setup and reboot, but I still have the same amount of recording hours after it reboots. (157 HD hours and 1367 SD hours)
Does anyone know the special process I would need to go through to marry the two drives?

Thanks in advance! :)

OMG! i thought it would be a no-brainer to buy a TivoHD for xmas for my 80 yr old parents in Wellington OH. local HD and Netflix + Amazon streaming! sweet!

:eek: little did i know of the 3 year QAM war and Tivo's intransigent ignorance of customer needs.

the hayseed cableco in Wellington OH does not have cablecards. TivoHD does not support set-tops. by federal law cableco transmits local channels in unencrypted "clear QAM" with passthru of VCT table information. but according to Tivo sales & techsupport, Tivo is (doh!) too stupid to map to the Guide.....double DOH!!

hello manual record, goodbye Season Pass! ...... i don't think so ..... mom would kill me not having her Season Pass for Grey's Anatomy.

hello Roku :up:, good bye TivoHD!:down:

I just installed the Brite-View Air HD (BV-2500) transmitter (downstairs) and receiver (upstairs bedroom) last night. I'm trying to get the IR blaster that came with the Aid HD to work with my TiVoHD, but am not having much success. The Air HD manual says "IR blaster only supports 38K (NEC) and 36K (RC5, RC6) remote’s signal protocol. Some device may not be supported." Does anyone know if the TiVoHD with peanut remote uses either of these?

This one is $209: http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digita.../dp/B001UHOR88

This one is $129: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001UHOR88/...SIN=B001UHOR88

But they seem to be the same. Help?

We have a 6 month old Tivo HD that only has OTA antenna.

Over the last 7 days we have noticed that daytime (mostly) shows have been partially recorded. The duration of a 60 min show ends up being between 4-41 minutes.

Also, many shows are "stuttering" during playback. This is not a signal strength issue, (90-99 % strength) since there is no pixelation. The A/V just pauses for a couple seconds, then starts again. It usually lasts about 2-5 mins. This happens on shows that are both partially AND fully recorded.

I have no idea what has changed. I've tried rebooting, and it did a partial recording 2 hours later.

Netflix, Ripped DVD, etc NEVER have this issue. It's only the OTA channels.

Thanks,
George

I have a stock early-adopter S3 Tivo, and last year I added an official external 500GB WD "My DVR Extender" to the unit just before the Olympics.

This week, my S3 started locking up and showing pixellation, so I ran the kickstart diagnostics which reported a Fail 7 error.

How can I tell if the internal drive or the external drive is failing? Don't the drives get married at setup time and show up as one big virtual drive? And what happens if I power down and then unplug the external drive? Will it become permanently unmarried from the S3?

I've already ordered a replacement 1TB internal drive for the TIVO from Amazon, but now I'm wondering if it might be the extender drive that's failing.

I have two working S3s, each with two cablecards. Work great. I am moving them to a new location, about a mile away, and due to Comcast's policy, I am going to put two new (different) cablecards in each, and then call and activate them. Comcast does not allow you to transfer equipment to a different location. You must get new equipment, treat it as a new activation, and at some point return the old equipment.

I already have the four new cablecards. Tomorrow I am going to move the S3s, swap cablecards, and call for activation.

Question: Is there anything I need to be aware of on the TiVo side? When I insert the new cards, does it forget the old ones and just start fresh? Do I need to do anything to make it "forget" the old cards and pairings?

Thanks!

Without exception, whenever I enable Parental Controls on my early-adopter S3, the unit invariable locks up, requiring a hard reset. It usually takes no more than a day for the TIVO to get in this state.

When I start up the TV and provide the password, I can navigate the guide, but that's it. I can't get to live TV and I can't get into any menus to turn off PC.

And so: my wife and I have stopped using PC even though we have 3 kids who also use the TIVO. :down:

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As an anecdote, add my name to the list of parents who think that the Parental Controls feature looks like it was implemented by a summer intern @ TIVO. Given the quality of the overall TIVO UI experience, the PC feature is, to put it bluntly, a JOKE.

TIVO is not alone in this, either. The parental controls features on Windows Vista and Windows 7 were both clearly an afterthought. In 3 minutes, I can dream up more useful PC features for Windows than the Program Manager in charge of this feature @ MSFT was able to imagine in 5 years.

Parents want: A) lots of granularity for setting different parameters; and B) features that actually work and don't lock up the DRV or computer! Is that too much to ask?

Apparently so. :mad:

Wow. I just checked the threads for the last 30 days and there were no positings for clear-QAM. Doesn't anyone care anymore?

Anyhow, back in February when we first got 11.0 update it messed up my Repeat Manual Recordings on clear-QAM channels on my cablecard-less THD. The programs would not record and get the error message Not recorded Since the Program is No Longer in Program Guide. TiVo actually put some run/me apps on my TiVo and was able to get it fixed for 11.0d.

Everything was fine for nine months, but now the problem is back. I am getting the same message and no recordings. If I change the Repeat Manual recording (RPR) it is put back in the To-Do List for a few hours, then goes away again. I deleted the RPR and re-created it with the same results.

Anyone else using this function? Anyone with the problem?

i and a friend have a series 3 tivos both connected to sling boxes
i just traded my series 3 in for a new unit due to a problem with the old
so this has happened with three tivos that i know of.

the series 3 tivo shows on the front that it is recording a program called "teleworld paid program" but in the now showing nothing appears this happens once a week seems to be the same day and time 4:00 am thursday morning yet no season pass or any thing lse set up to record also tivo suggestions is turned off

this is bugging the crap out of me as to why my series 3 is doing this

I was going to post pictures of my outputs from my Tivo HD but I don't have enough posts. Here's my problem:

My component cable seems to work okay. However, the HDMI seems to be acting up. I get a distorted image on the HDMI input. I switched HDMI ports on the television and this didn't change anything. I had the WD Extender hooked up at one time. But, I decided to remove it while I prepared to upgrade the hard drive.

Is this an issue with the HDMI port, hard drive or motherboard? I'd like to figure this out before buying a new hard drive.

I have a TivoHD with a single Comcast M-Card. New HD channels (TLCHD, CNNHD, etc.) are not working -- the gray screen shows up with the message to call the cable provider.

I called Comcast and they sent a signal to the card, but the channels are still not working. The Tivo has been restarted, cable card removed and reseated, etc.

Comcast's next step is to send a technician out to troubleshoot the problem. It's somewhat frustrating because every time a technician comes out, he ends up having to call in since the technician has usually never seen a cable card.

Is there anything else I can do or another number I can call to reach someone who knows what signals to send to authorize the channels? The channels are in my tier so they should work.

Just got a Tivo HD XL. Did a bunch of forced dial-ins to get the upgrade, and guide data.

Now when I dial in it only takes 30 seconds or so, which implies I've gotten everything I can.

However, when I go to "Find Programs", or try to schedule a season pass, it says I only have one day of program data.

Even weirder, when I go to the guide, I can page forward multiple days and there's program data visible.

The only thing I noticed was on the System Information screen, it says "Running since..." instead of "Idle Since..." on the guide data status. Although I have had ~20 Tivo's so far (6 HD's active right now), and I've never seen this combination of behavior.

Any idea what's going on?