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Dead here in Anaheim Hills as well.

Did TWC confirm they would make a swap?

I asked about this before and another poster made it sound like TWC may switch to Motorola because that is what all of us Comcast people had - such that the SA boxes may be in the minority of their total equipment after the merger.

BTW, I have the Moto 6412 and it also holds 18-20 hrs of HD, but unlike the SA boxes, no one has gotten a SATA drive to work with it (last I heard).

Hey, I lost PBS-HD tonight! Did anyone else lose that station?

Me too, they know about the problem.

I read about it in the MOXI thread in the HDTV Recorder Forum:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...page=234&pp=30

Yes.

Does anyone know the new quam channel numbers for Discovery and Tnt hd?

Mine is still out this morning. Any idea what the problem is?

Jim

PBS still out.

I thought I read something in today's Calendar section, that a line was cut yesterday due to some road construction. They were attempting to reroute the signal, but couldn't say for sure when they would be back up.

That was KVCR in San Bernadino. I don't think it relates, but ya never know!

NO PBS in Fullerton CA Its been dead since Friday afternoon.
All other HD channels and digital channels seem ok

I also have an LG HD tuner hooked to my roof antenna, and I get PBS HD just fine on 28-1. Nothing on Adelphia or Time Warner or whoever the f#*k they are now! This sucks!

Did they just drop PBS HD from the lineup? Has anyone tried calling to find out what happened? How could a cut cable cause one station to go out?

I called and complained to TW. Where A* would normally credit each DAY for missing a channel (I've done this in the past when other channels fritzed out) TW* will only credit for the CHANNEL that is missing, about a dime. So WHO is better??

PBS is back on...

Fascinating!

Taking what you've said into account, I just explored my own second option... through my second D-VHS VCR, a JVC DT100U. I have two boxes: JVC 40K, and JVC DT100U.

And, miraculously, like your results, I have NO PROBLEM when I use my JVC DT100U!! However the problem remains with my JVC 40K!

In other words, I am "unrestricted" in my ability to watch/offload from DVR through DT100U, either with live or previously recorded content from the three categories of HD digital source channels: (1) OTA HD locals carried by TWC, (2) non-premium HD, e.g. ESPNHD, DiscHD, INHD, etc., and (3) premium HD, e.gl. HBOHD, SHOHD, etc. This is 100% normal, and exactly as it was under Comcast.

However through the 40K, I am only "unrestricted" with category (1) above, the OTA HD locals. The other two categories produce a "cannot decode" error message from the 40K!


It's almost as if the list of "approved 5C-compliant devices" known to the 6412 DVR has been changed, with the 40K no longer in the list for anything but OTA HD locals... only the DT100U, and also your 5U! But I'd be hard-pressed to figure out what the 5C flags are that can trigger such a difference of behavior for the two VCRs.

Even if that were true, that the list of 5C-compliant devices for the 6412 for some reason no longer contains the 40K, there's still the mystery about why the non-premium and premium HD channels are both now being treated the same for the 40K, since I thought the non-premium channels were "copy always" just like the OTA HD locals. And this strange behavior is for both current "live" content as well as previously Comcast-recorded content.

And even "copy once" allows offloading from DVR to D-VHS for one generation. The only possible explanation for this is if the 40K is not being seen as "5C-compliant" any longer, so maybe there's a special 5C-flag situation for OTA HD locals that "forgives the non-5C-compliant device" and allows just those OTA HD locals to be offloaded anyway.

Very strange. But I will call the TWC VP of Engineering tomorrow morning to update him on these new findings.

Many many thanks for your insight. I don't know why I hadn't tried my DT100U previously, except that I had been intending to use the 40K in this latest batch of offloads.

Anyway, at least the urgency of my situation is now gone. Obviously I can still use the DT100U to offload whatever I want. Resolving the 40K problem is no longer a crisis.

I noticed that after the logo change I also lost access to the Free Movies onDemand category, and Encore onDemand. Does anyone know if these will come back at some point?

I hate how TWC changed the guide. I used to get 5 lines of programming. Now it appears we're stuck with 4 lines and a line for a banner ad.

More DVR info from the MOXI thread in the HDTV Recorder Forum:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...35#post8153735

Got my HD hooked up yesterday with a Moto 6412 box, NOT the 6416 I was told I'd get over the phone (after getting info here). Kind of a drag. Still need to do tweaks on my Samsung 5087 to get SD to look better, but so far, so good. Kind of disappointed that there's not HBO HD on demand; I wanted to see what "Deadwood" looked like in HD before tonight, but it's all SD material on-demand. Is there no HBO/Showtime/Starz! material (I'm a Comcast subscriber now part of TW) that's available in HD On-Demand?

Breaking that down still further (according to Multichannel News )

Pre-merger, it was

Time Warner Cable: 350,000
Comcast: 750,000
Adelphia: 1,000,000

The totals don't quite match up with the ones you have... but it's pretty clear that TWC suddenly moved from being an S-A only system to one in which only a small minority of their subscribers are on S-A. Like it or not, TWC in SoCal is a mainly Moto system.

Remember--you can't simply pop an S-A receiver or DVR onto a Motorola headend. The Moto headends can take any of the Moto DVRs (DCT6408, DCT6412, BMC9012, BMC9022). The BMC models use the Moxi software.

So swapping the set top boxes for the newly acquired customers would also require changes in the head-end. It would take a massive investment to make a radical and wholesale switch. (They could decide it's worth it, but I wonder how likely that is.)

Or...

They can wait until next year when the whole game changes. Right now the special mojo that decodes encrypted digital signals is built in to the cable box. That's why Moto boxes only work on Moto head-ends and S-A boxes only work on S-A headends.

But starting next July 1st... the set top box and the decoding mojo will have to be sold separately. Provided everybody meets their deadlines, it will be much more a mix and match world.

I have no idea what Time Warner will do. But one good bet is that they will factoring the new FCC rules into their decision.

I love my moxi box, besides the lack of storage (80gigs doesn't cut it), they will have to knock my door down and steel it back from my cold dead hands. I used a 6412 when they were beta testing, the interface on the moxi is allot better. They would have to offer me something with a simular interface and allot more storage to get me to switch. Im sure if they do, do a switch out they would shut down the program guide info, so the box would be useless. Maybe its time to switch to E*

Does anybody on the west side of santa monica (roughly 14th street over) have a working TNT-HD or DISC-HD yet?

I know those on the west la circuits have it working, but i still get the 'you are not subscribed' message. CS has no idea what the problem is.

I don't want to give up my MOXI box unless they are going to upgrade me to the 120G model! The 80G one keeps deleting shows before I can watch them!

I live on 14th (north of the 10), and I get both

Well that's annoying

Thanks for the reply.

I called and complained about it! Paying big bucks for more ads is not my cup of tea.

Does anyone know if in West LA Discovery HDT is open in QAM? Is so, what's the channel number. I scanned but it didn't find it.
TiA

Can everyone check for me and see if they have HBO on demand "the wire" episode(s) 17-19.. For some reason they are skipped,(i have 14-16 and 20-25) and on the HBO site it states they should be available. So far I have called in twice to TWC in the last 48 hours.. no results

I've had that for awhile. I always thought it was funny how Adelphia would always be quick to act on certain things such as....

1. Price increase ALWAYS happened every year or more with no delays, could always count on it happening.
2. Implemented technology into their cable system to stop torrent seeding. Now unless you use encryption you absolutely cannot seed a torrent.
3. As soon as the guide was upgraded they added the giant ad at the bottom eliminating two lines that could be used to view more program data. I went from viewing 15 channels at once to viewing four and a huge ad in their supposed "upgrade" as they called it.

The trend is adelphia/Time Warner will and always have taken quick action with upgrades that help their bottom line but something like adding an HD channel gets delayed month after month after month while they play the blame game.

Go check out dslreports and you will see. People will create threads asking questions like "anybody having problems in such and such area because my internet has been slow for days" and instantly the adelphia workers will pop in saying "well maybe if you'd actually read the FAQ and post some info we could help you fix your problem because I just checked and their is no issue in your area". Very quick to blame the user.

Wow this turned into a rant really fast sorry about that, I've really had it will adelphia in my area and their general lack of "giving a damn" about anything but collecting the check.