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post #4381 of 5911
12/10/10 at 8:06am
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Originally Posted by PedjaR View Post

I'd be quite surprised if they stop getting the guide (see ReplayTV). But not much more in terms of updates seems fairly likely.

Agreed - my father is running some old ReplayTV units and they work fine, getting their program guides each day (via modem - how quaint!). I have little fear of Moxi going away to the point that the device doesn't function.

Also, as I've said before, it's an incredibly functional device and I love it. I have ZERO regrets on my purchase. It's just frustrating that some some painfully obvious items haven't been addressed in almost a year. Even a skeleton development crew should be able to knock some of these things out.

Side note - I've been playing around with the DLNA functionality quite a bit. If anyone is curious, the "high profile" setting in handbrake (to .MKV) works great. The only strange thing is that it took a long time for newly added videos to show up on the moxi. It seems like it cached the directory contents and wouldn't update them until it felt like it, which was 2 days later by the time I noticed it (it definitely wasn't there even 2-3 hours after I placed the file there).
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post #4382 of 5911
12/10/10 at 12:29pm
My MOXI 2-tuner seems to be having HD issues. A lot of my recording and even when I time shift show I get spots that is garbles up or skips a small section of the show. Ever now and again the unit will just reboot and run the checking HD. I have sent the report in but of course heard nothing back. Wonder if I should just go ahead and drop a 2TB drive in the unit?

Thoughts?
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post #4383 of 5911
12/10/10 at 5:19pm
FWIW, I found it interesting to watch the bidding on this Used Moxi HD DVR, 2 tuner, 500GB it finally sold for $447.00. I though that price was a bit high, but a couple people seemed to want it bad. (The guy posts it as New but states he has used it since April '09)

http://cgi.ebay.com/Moxi-HD-DVR-2-tu...#ht_500wt_1156
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post #4384 of 5911
12/10/10 at 5:25pm
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Originally Posted by Bryan_CoxPHX View Post

FWIW, I found it interesting to watch the bidding on this Used Moxi HD DVR, 2 tuner, 500GB it finally sold for $447.00. I though that price was a bit high, but a couple people seemed to want it bad. (The guy posts it as New but states he has used it since April '09)

http://cgi.ebay.com/Moxi-HD-DVR-2-tu...#ht_500wt_1156

That's weird since a 3 tuner is 599.
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post #4385 of 5911
12/10/10 at 9:54pm
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Originally Posted by chief-j View Post

Can anyone confirm for me that you should not get a red light after pressing ok to start the install process after doing the 4fp? I know it's bad if you get that instead of the install screen but wasn't sure if it's supposed to come on during.

By the way, does anyone have some good pointers on how to easily get that thing to come up? I know the general process but it seems as if you don't get the timing "perfect", you don't get in. Am I missing something?

You should not get a red light after the 4fp. That basically means it failed to communicate with the moxi server. The dhcp client in the 4fp firmware is very fussy (i.e. buggy). I've had to use an old router and restart it a few times to get things to work.
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post #4386 of 5911
12/11/10 at 5:10pm
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Originally Posted by DigitalKnight View Post

My MOXI 2-tuner seems to be having HD issues. A lot of my recording and even when I time shift show I get spots that is garbles up or skips a small section of the show. Ever now and again the unit will just reboot and run the checking HD. I have sent the report in but of course heard nothing back. Wonder if I should just go ahead and drop a 2TB drive in the unit?

Thoughts?

Yes, I would put in another harddrive. Your symptoms does seem to point to a failing harddrive.
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post #4387 of 5911
12/12/10 at 7:26pm
sigh... i haven't looked at this thread for a few months, came back hoping to hear some good news, no such luck. i'm also giving up hope that there will ever be another significant update.

well, doesn't look like tivo is ever going to resolve the mrv/cci issue, so maybe I'll play around with wmp. it's a shame - i think moxi is so close to having a great product, yet so far away...
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post #4388 of 5911
12/13/10 at 10:39am
I'm about to pull the trigger on a hard drive swap out.
Somewhat concerned about having internet connectivity after replacing the hard drive.

If I try the 4FP and get the correct screen now (before hard drive swap)
Then swap out drives, connect the Moxi back up exactly as it was before the swap (ethernet cable from a switch)... should the Moxi have that same internet connectivity it did before the hard drive swap?

Safe to assume that I will need to call Comcast and have the cablecard re-paired, synced, etc. after the hard drive swap?

After finally losing all recorded shows after many instances of garbled/pixelated spots in recorded shows that were repeatable, I'm thinking that a hard drive swap must come next before we start over with recordings and lose them all again.

Thanks,
Skid
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post #4389 of 5911
12/13/10 at 3:31pm
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Originally Posted by Skid71 View Post

I'm about to pull the trigger on a hard drive swap out.
Somewhat concerned about having internet connectivity after replacing the hard drive.

If I try the 4FP and get the correct screen now (before hard drive swap)
Then swap out drives, connect the Moxi back up exactly as it was before the swap (ethernet cable from a switch)... should the Moxi have that same internet connectivity it did before the hard drive swap?

Safe to assume that I will need to call Comcast and have the cablecard re-paired, synced, etc. after the hard drive swap?

After finally losing all recorded shows after many instances of garbled/pixelated spots in recorded shows that were repeatable, I'm thinking that a hard drive swap must come next before we start over with recordings and lose them all again.

Thanks,
Skid

Your internet settings usually will not change if you swap out the harddrive since your router will issue you the same IP address since your MAC address (hardware address) does not change. Keep in mind some people had issues obtaining an IP address... it might be a good idea to have a direct network ethernet cable available just in case...

Yes. You will most likely need to call Comcast.

Good luck on your swap. Post back your results.
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post #4390 of 5911
12/13/10 at 9:10pm
Please pardon my newbiness in all things streaming but I am looking for a server that will allow me to do the following:

1. Play urls of my favorite radio and music stations. FM reception in my apartment is practicaly non-existent. It'd be nice to come home and listen to some great music once in a while. I'm running IE8 on Windows 7.

2. Play urls of my favorite video sites. Notably, i sometimes miss the sunday morning service of my church(!) which happens to be broadcast live from their website. Can this be done?

I have tried Tversity and failed to do so, but then again, I may not have been able to set it up correctly. It seems i need a degree on computer geek to do so! tried Twonky, PlayOn and Wild Media server but they don't seem to meet the above 2 requirements.

Anyone know of a server that can do this? Use a 3T Moxi cable box as my media device.


Thanks,
David
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post #4391 of 5911
12/14/10 at 8:29am
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Originally Posted by dmusoke View Post

Please pardon my newbiness in all things streaming but I am looking for a server that will allow me to do the following:

1. Play urls of my favorite radio and music stations. FM reception in my apartment is practicaly non-existent. It'd be nice to come home and listen to some great music once in a while. I'm running IE8 on Windows 7.

2. Play urls of my favorite video sites. Notably, i sometimes miss the sunday morning service of my church(!) which happens to be broadcast live from their website. Can this be done?

I have tried Tversity and failed to do so, but then again, I may not have been able to set it up correctly. It seems i need a degree on computer geek to do so! tried Twonky, PlayOn and Wild Media server but they don't seem to meet the above 2 requirements.

Anyone know of a server that can do this? Use a 3T Moxi cable box as my media device.


Thanks,
David

The Moxi can do as much as Playon can do. So I am not sure if the 3T Moxi can fit your needs.

I guess if you have all your files on a DLNA certified file share it may work.. but I leaning towards no.

Have you looked at PlayOn plugins..

http://www.playonplugins.com/


Google TV might work for you BUT all the networks have started blocking them.
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post #4392 of 5911
12/15/10 at 12:59pm
I have a 3 tuner Moxi (about 6 months old) which has suddenly starting losing signal then rebooting out of the blue. This can happen at any time of day or night. The most recent one happened about 3 pm today, the one just before that happened about midnight a few days ago. Whenever it occurs, I lose use of the unit for anywhere from 5-15 minutes while it goes through the reboot cycle and if it happens during recording, I lose that amount of time in whatever show I was recording.

Does anyone have any idea what might be going on here? I understand that Moxi will sometimes reboot the unit to install software updates but I thought that would happen when no one is watching or recording on the unit. Thanks in advance for any feedback.
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post #4393 of 5911
12/15/10 at 3:15pm
Scott,

Since you only had the unit for 6 months, it should be under warranty. Give Moxi a call and see if they can look into the logs for you. Most of the problems we see here with the Moxi is a bad harddrive. Happened to some of us already.
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post #4394 of 5911
12/20/10 at 7:42am
This thread seems to be dying quickly, but hopefully someone can help me. I've gone through several different 2TB internal drives to replace the stock Moxi drive, to no avail. First, I used the Hitachi Deskstar, then found negative feedback. Then, I got the Seagate Barracuda, and it also didn't work. Now I have the Samsung Spinpoint HD204UI, and like the others, once I (finally) get to the software install screen, after about 5 minutes I get a blinking red light on the front panel.

I've taken this to indicate something didn't go right, but what can I do now? I don't know how long I can keep taking hard drives back and trying others, especially since there are people on this thread who have successfully used this Samsung drive. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong, or what else I can try?

TIA

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Apologies, I do see a reply that indicates I should not be getting the red light, and it seems due to buggy DHCP logic in the Moxi install firmware. That being the case, I'm not sure how to address. I've done the process many times over (nevermind that it's a HUGE pain to actually get into the install screen), and have the box hooked directly up via ethernet to my FIOS Actiontec router (MI-424WR Rev. C). Should I take things a step further and apply MAC filtering to the IP the box grabs on startup? Should I give it a static lease? And if the flaw is in the Moxi firmware, would those steps actually make a difference?
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post #4395 of 5911
12/20/10 at 9:35am
[quote=chief-j;19678258]This thread seems to be dying quickly,....TIA

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Where is everyone posting now?
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post #4396 of 5911
12/20/10 at 12:24pm
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Originally Posted by chief-j View Post

This thread seems to be dying quickly

Dying how? When there's nothing happening what do you expect people to discuss?
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post #4397 of 5911
12/20/10 at 1:14pm
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Originally Posted by chief-j View Post

This thread seems to be dying quickly, but hopefully someone can help me. I've gone through several different 2TB internal drives to replace the stock Moxi drive, to no avail. First, I used the Hitachi Deskstar, then found negative feedback. Then, I got the Seagate Barracuda, and it also didn't work. Now I have the Samsung Spinpoint HD204UI, and like the others, once I (finally) get to the software install screen, after about 5 minutes I get a blinking red light on the front panel.

I've taken this to indicate something didn't go right, but what can I do now? I don't know how long I can keep taking hard drives back and trying others, especially since there are people on this thread who have successfully used this Samsung drive. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong, or what else I can try?

TIA

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Apologies, I do see a reply that indicates I should not be getting the red light, and it seems due to buggy DHCP logic in the Moxi install firmware. That being the case, I'm not sure how to address. I've done the process many times over (nevermind that it's a HUGE pain to actually get into the install screen), and have the box hooked directly up via ethernet to my FIOS Actiontec router (MI-424WR Rev. C). Should I take things a step further and apply MAC filtering to the IP the box grabs on startup? Should I give it a static lease? And if the flaw is in the Moxi firmware, would those steps actually make a difference?

Do you have an old piece of **** drive lying around? I used a 20gb Maxtor as the internal to do some testing when I was experimenting with an external RAID 1 array because I did not want to corrupt my current internal drive while testing. It also formats in about 5 minutes, which means you can try several different things in a short time.

How long were you waiting for the 2tb to format?
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post #4398 of 5911
12/20/10 at 1:22pm
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Originally Posted by VisionOn View Post

Dying how? When there's nothing happening what do you expect people to discuss?

I guess I can appreciate that, without new firmware updates people aren't going to discuss fixes to known bugs, but I hadn't seen much discussion of usage in general either. For a while there, even without any new firmware updates or input from Moxiguy, there was still a lot of discussion on external drives, tuning adapters, guide data, drive replacements and just general q&a. To me it seems to have died down. And, as you mentioned there's nothing happening, and some are speculating that this could be the beginning of the end for Arris and Moxi so that's what I meant by the thread dying. I hope that's not the case and it's good to see others still involved.
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post #4399 of 5911
12/20/10 at 1:27pm
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Originally Posted by Robert Duncan View Post

Do you have an old piece of **** drive lying around? I used a 20gb Maxtor as the internal to do some testing when I was experimenting with an external RAID 1 array because I did not want to corrupt my current internal drive while testing. It also formats in about 5 minutes, which means you can try several different things in a short time.

How long were you waiting for the 2tb to format?

Robert,

I gave the format over 2 hours, but no dice. As others have indicated, you shouldn't get a blinking red light during the format/install, which is what happened to me at about the 5 minute mark. Still, I thought maybe something was happening despite the light, so I gave it a long time, then finally reset. In each case it seems to have done nothing. I do have a junk hard drive (a 500GB from a busted pc) that I was able to format for my other moxi, so I can try that. But I don't know if that will prove that the drive is bad because like I said this is now 2TB drive #3 for me and I got the light on each.
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post #4400 of 5911
12/20/10 at 1:43pm
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Originally Posted by chief-j View Post

I guess I can appreciate that, without new firmware updates people aren't going to discuss fixes to known bugs, but I hadn't seen much discussion of usage in general either.

If this thread was full of people talking about what was going wrong then that wouldn't be a good sign either.

There's nothing about the usage that we haven't discussed at length before and since there isn't much you can actually do with a Moxi beyond record TV and stream some things with PlayOn (does anyone anywhere use Rhapsody, Finecast or the other trivial features?) there are no other shortcuts or tweaks to mention.
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post #4401 of 5911
12/20/10 at 5:57pm
Hello,

I have 2 2-Tuner Moxi units in Rosemount, MN with Charter and have been having issues with some channels just on my Moxi units but not on my regular TV's that do not have Moxi's with CableCards. I either am losing this set (CBS, PBS, ABC, NBC, CW) or this set (ESPN, MSNBC, TBS). He are the things I have tried:

1. Calling Moxi
- Told me that there is a signal problem.
- Mentioned cable card are using old firmware (2.01)

2. Calling Charter
- Don't know what the cable card firmware is.
- Replaced one cable card with no effect.
- Told me it is the boxes.
- I asked about SDV and they didn't know what it was.

Anybody here have this problem or any suggestions? Thanks!

Jesse
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post #4402 of 5911
12/20/10 at 8:20pm
Have you checked the signal levels to the Moxis?

You need to be more specific about the channels. HD, SD, analog?


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Originally Posted by jharaldson View Post
Hello,

I have 2 2-Tuner Moxi units in Rosemount, MN with Charter and have been having issues with some channels just on my Moxi units but not on my regular TV's that do not have Moxi's with CableCards. I either am losing this set (CBS, PBS, ABC, NBC, CW) or this set (ESPN, MSNBC, TBS). He are the things I have tried:

1. Calling Moxi
- Told me that there is a signal problem.
- Mentioned cable card are using old firmware (2.01)

2. Calling Charter
- Don't know what the cable card firmware is.
- Replaced one cable card with no effect.
- Told me it is the boxes.
- I asked about SDV and they didn't know what it was.

Anybody here have this problem or any suggestions? Thanks!

Jesse
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post #4403 of 5911
12/21/10 at 5:51am
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Originally Posted by chief-j View Post

over (nevermind that it's a HUGE pain to actually get into the install screen), and have the box hooked directly up via ethernet to my FIOS Actiontec router (MI-424WR Rev. C). Should I take things a step further and apply MAC filtering to the IP the box grabs on startup? Should I give it a static lease? And if the flaw is in the Moxi firmware, would those steps actually make a difference?


chief-j.

Just several small things..... to check.

1. Have you tried a new cable

2. Check the DHCP lease table on the actiontec if it has one and see if the MOXI picks up an ip address.

3. Do you have another router that you can try using?
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post #4404 of 5911
12/21/10 at 7:41am
anyone noticed a symptom on 2-tuner moxi where it gets slower and slower over long-time, so slow that it might take 20 minutes to start a recording after the scheduled time, and there become so many blockies that shows are unwatchable and audio drops out too.

the blockies look similar to what happens when there is low-signal-level, but i have verified each time that signal level is fine and that reboot cures the symptom .

( the symptom seems like a "memory leak" to me... )
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post #4405 of 5911
12/21/10 at 10:22am
I'm wondering if this has been happening to anyone else. The preface is that with it being the holiday season, I've been keeping later-than-usual hours to get stuff done while busy eyes are sleeping, and I've been using that package wrapping time to catch up watching recorded stuff.

Twice recently, I've been watching something that's recorded when apparently there was a live Emergency Broadcast System test. To be clear, the EBS test wasn't happening when the recording was made but rather when I was watching something that had been recorded at another time.

When the EBS test happens, I'm taken away from the recorded content I was watching to the live test, and when the test completes, I'm taken to whatever live TV is on the active tuner.

The first time it happened, I thought the test was during the recorded program & tried fast-forwarding but that had no effect other than when the test was complete, I was no longer watching my recorded show but rather was at live TV. I assumed I must have just hit a wrong button & chalked it up to operator error.

However, the same thing happened again very early this AM. I didn't touch a thing & had the same result: when the EBS test was finished, I was at live TV rather than the recorded show I'd been watching.

It's like there's some function of the CableCARD or Moxi or something that interrups normal Moxi function when an EBS test happens.

Has anyone else noticed this? It is very annoying!

If it matters, I've got TWC -- no TAs, but I do have analog dongles.

TIA,
Saundra
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post #4406 of 5911
12/21/10 at 11:51am
Chief-J:

I highly recommend that you unplug your Router's electricity before plugging in your Moxi to do the Four-Finger Press.

Unplug Moxi power cord

Unplug Router. (I am assuming you are NOT using one of those combo telephone/Internet modem-routers that have battery backup)

Wait about 20 seconds.

Plug electricity back into your Router and wait 30 seconds to a minute

Plug the Moxi power back in and do the Four-Finger Press.

Hold down all the 4 –directional arrows simultaneously for 25 seconds
a. “MOXI” would display on the screen for first 15-18 seconds
b. Screen will flash for 1 second
c. Then “MOXI” will reappear on the screen for 2 seconds
Now you will receive the Welcome to Moxi screen to initiate the recovery process.
a. Press front panel “OK” button to continue--do not wait too long to do so
“Install Initiated” Recovery App has been started – process can take up to 20-40 minutes

Good luck!
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post #4407 of 5911
12/21/10 at 7:14pm
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Originally Posted by tveli View Post

anyone noticed a symptom on 2-tuner moxi where it gets slower and slower over long-time, so slow that it might take 20 minutes to start a recording after the scheduled time, and there become so many blockies that shows are unwatchable and audio drops out too.

the blockies look similar to what happens when there is low-signal-level, but i have verified each time that signal level is fine and that reboot cures the symptom .

( the symptom seems like a "memory leak" to me... )

Nope. My two tuner model working as advertised. Very strange, however. How close are you to maxing out disk space?

J
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post #4408 of 5911
12/21/10 at 7:20pm
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Originally Posted by sslund View Post

I'm wondering if this has been happening to anyone else. The preface is that with it being the holiday season, I've been keeping later-than-usual hours to get stuff done while busy eyes are sleeping, and I've been using that package wrapping time to catch up watching recorded stuff.

Twice recently, I've been watching something that's recorded when apparently there was a live Emergency Broadcast System test. To be clear, the EBS test wasn't happening when the recording was made but rather when I was watching something that had been recorded at another time.

When the EBS test happens, I'm taken away from the recorded content I was watching to the live test, and when the test completes, I'm taken to whatever live TV is on the active tuner.

The first time it happened, I thought the test was during the recorded program & tried fast-forwarding but that had no effect other than when the test was complete, I was no longer watching my recorded show but rather was at live TV. I assumed I must have just hit a wrong button & chalked it up to operator error.

However, the same thing happened again very early this AM. I didn't touch a thing & had the same result: when the EBS test was finished, I was at live TV rather than the recorded show I'd been watching.

It's like there's some function of the CableCARD or Moxi or something that interrups normal Moxi function when an EBS test happens.

Has anyone else noticed this? It is very annoying!

If it matters, I've got TWC -- no TAs, but I do have analog dongles.

TIA,
Saundra

Saundra,

Yes and yes, it is annoying. Probably a spec of the CableCard. I'm TWC NYC. Who's your CC? I can't remember exactly what happened with my TWC DVR when the EBS occurred, however I do recall being similarly annoyed. Kinda tells you my sleeping schedule or lack thereof. Also find the Thursday early morning reboot to load schedule annoying.

J
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post #4409 of 5911
12/21/10 at 8:19pm
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Originally Posted by sslund View Post

Twice recently, I've been watching something that's recorded when apparently there was a live Emergency Broadcast System test. To be clear, the EBS test wasn't happening when the recording was made but rather when I was watching something that had been recorded at another time.

I encounter EBS all the time. The only thing that happens is a red banner and test message crawl appear at the top of the screen for about ten seconds.

I just pause the recording and let it play out before starting again. It has no effect on the playback or channel. It largely depends on how the EBS system in your particular market is implemented.
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post #4410 of 5911
12/22/10 at 7:26am
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Originally Posted by VisionOn View Post

I encounter EBS all the time. The only thing that happens is a red banner and test message crawl appear at the top of the screen for about ten seconds.

I just pause the recording and let it play out before starting again. It has no effect on the playback or channel. It largely depends on how the EBS system in your particular market is implemented.



Working as designed ( and probably required) . If there is a legitimate EBS, you would want to see it. As an aside, Moxi fixed the EBS process recently. Any EBS message used to be persistent until I rebooted the Moxi. Now they clear away without any action from me.
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