Posts by lorus

Can I exchange cable boxes at the Staten Island Mall, Center Court TWC location?

Quote: Originally Posted by lee7n It is like 10 bucks for a surge protector, constantly having power surges is a recipe for disaster. You have just been lucky your PC has not been damaged yet. Probably a fire hazard as well This was...

Quote: Originally Posted by Berk32 is your computer plugged into a surge protector? is your cable box? Not really. As I said PC just shrugs the power failure off. As far as the box goes, I am not prepared to spend more money for a...

Quote: Originally Posted by lee7n More likely the power failure caused your hard drive to get corrupted, I have unplugged my box before it does not lose anything The same power failure caused two of the PC's I have to reboot. Somehow...

This is a disgrace.... I have 8300HDC DVR. We had a power dip today where all of our appliances have re-booted themselves. I have lost all of the shows on DVR even though there is no external hard drive hooked up. When I pull up the...

Hi, I am thinking of getting the TiVo instead of the 8300HDC. What is the procedure for getting the cable cards? It has to be two, right? Any way of getting these without the service call? Please let me know. I am in SI.

Hi, Is there anything that can be done to force 8300HDC to re-format the esata drive? Currently there is an NTFS partition on this external drive. The drive was hooked up to the box before, so maybe the box "remembers" it? Please...

Quote: Originally Posted by hansangb What version are you using? Is it the 8300HD or 8300HDC? Passport or ODN? Finally, can you use the buffer, i.e. while watching a show, can you rewind w/o having to record it first? ...

Just wanted to share my experience in adding an external drive to expand the disk space on the cable box. I had 8300HD and added to it a Western Digital 640GB drive in MX-1 enclosure. When I would play shows recorded to the drive there...

Hi, I have the registered letter receipt saying that the rebate form and UPC were received on Feb 25. I still have not received the audit letter, or the check.... Is there a number I can call, or an email address I can write to?