Time Warner Cable Navigator - Page 431

Originally Posted by UNCHeel

I have an issue that seems to contradict that. It occurs whenever there is an outage or an update when I have rcordeing in progress. Normally if there is a conflict navigator will catch a later scheduled showing of the lower priority show. But if the recording gets interupted by an outage or update, It will pickup and make a second recording containing the end of that show and will not catch another showing of the same episode.

SIGHHHHHHHH. Leave it to TWC to roll out something that I have no use for and not solve a few simple problems in the current software or provide a DVR with a reasonable sized HDD.

Originally Posted by Satch Man

In the event of a commercial power failure Navigator MAY pick up the recording when power is restored. If the box unexpectedly reboots, it will pick up with the show about one minute after the power comes back on with a second recording in the list. (Or after the box boot cycle completes.) If the show ends or could not record due to power failure, you should get "The settop was unable to record the program in the Recording Log."

Originally Posted by Satch Man

I feel almost the same way. We have only one TV and one DVR so this is a moot point. Have All The Best Package already. (Cable, Wireless Road Runner, and Digital Phone.) I have to agree that I would rather see Navigator get basic guide features first, (Keyword Search), get plug and play compatibility with expander drives and DVR's ACROSS THE DVR SPECTRUM, and a more consistent and uniform attitude and approach to software updates and customer communication satisfaction across divisions.

Originally Posted by UNCHeel

CORRECTION: You can set up a series recording but I haven't found a way to edit existing series recording or set priorities.

What I wish it would do is recogize that the recording has been interupted and look for the new time that episode is on and schedule it to record. This happens to me once or twice a year. I record some early morning shows on Adult Swim. Of course this is when TW delivers updates and we also get the occasional power outage in the middle of the night. For the most part Adult Swim shows the same schedule twice a night, once from 10pm to 2am and then again from 2 to 6 am. So the repeat is right there but I am usually not awake to manually reschedule it.

Originally Posted by ke4pym

Sorry guys. Tech -just- left.

First off, I got the coolest tech I've ever had the pleasure of meeting. He knows his business.

First up - they take a tour of the home to find out where everything is going to be installed.

Then, he took the information of my old DVR and cable modem (which I had disconnected). Then went out and brought back 2 Cisco DVR's. These have the MOCA interface (of which, I'm getting 215Mb/sec between the two).

Then, out to the street to check the signal levels. Those were good.

Back to the back side of the house for more signal level checks. Install two MOCA traps. One to prevent signal from back feeding into the cable network. The other to prevent leakage into the cable modem.

Then, inside to hook up but not power up both DVRs and the cable modem. More signal level checks at each outlet.

Then, activate everything.

I just did a speed test. 49Mbps down, 5.1Mbps up! Using dslreports.com.

The wireless part of the modem has an option to disable. But it is grayed out. Cable guy is going to check into that. Though as of this writing, the wireless signal light is off on the front of the modem.

The DVR's. Well, channel changing is slower than my old 8xxx box. But not bad. So far the external hard drive -does-not-work. Cable guy is going to check into that for me too.

Record a show on one DVR and that show instantly shows up on the list of the other DVR. The DVR's pack 512GB hard drives.

Digital phone comes on Tuesday.

The Cable modem (Motorola SURFboard SBG6580) - it has a 4 port switch on the back of it. By default, it will enable NAT. I disabled that because I want my firewall/router to take care of that work for me. Also, I am being assigned 1 IPv4 address and 1 IPv6 address by the TWC network! How hot is that??

Originally Posted by mfogarty5

A user in Charlotte now has both the multi-room DVR and the 50/5 mbps package.

Originally Posted by Crazywoody

I have been told by a friend who is a engineer and knows people in Cisco. Belive me i'm no engineer and am only repeating what I was told. When TWC launchs multi room the 8300hdc, 8240hd and the 8640hdc and the 8642hdc will all be open to it.. How I do not know. Time Warner wants a way to use the older boxes to offset huge costs in replaceing them. That is what I was told and have no other information. WOODy

Originally Posted by Riverside_Guy

8300HDC??? Does such a box exist?

Originally Posted by Satch Man

Interesting. Wonder how they will go about this?

In your post, you mentioned that 8240HD. Should their be a C after that, or not? I just have the MDN SA-8300. But what CW has told us here, just gives more evidence that TWC does not want to replace the old boxes.

Jack

Originally Posted by hdtvfan2005

They still need to fix the VOD issues on my 4640HDC. It won't remember where you left off. It starts from the beginning.

Originally Posted by Crazywoody

8240HDC is correct. My bad typo. My friend said Scientific Atlanta and TWC worked on a multi room project 5 years ago but it was abandoned because of to many bugs. The much larger Cisco team is working to debug the older work with the HDC units. As I understand it his is a older project that has been revived useing the 8300HDC and 8240HDC as the base units for older boxes. I am getting this information second hand but checking arround it seems sound. WOODY

Originally Posted by BenJF3

I've noticed VOD issues as well since Navigator deployment. The plus is that they load WAY faster, but the minus is they seem glitchy. Can't exit out sometime.

Originally Posted by BenJF3

I've noticed VOD issues as well since Navigator deployment. The plus is that they load WAY faster, but the minus is they seem glitchy. Can't exit out sometime.

Originally Posted by Satch Man

Thanks!

So anyone who has multiple DVR's who wants the multi-room update, whenever the time comes for their division, will have to have an ODN (C-box) a Samsung, or a Cisco 8600 as the perquisite.

We have to remember that this is all VERY preliminary information.

Jack

Originally Posted by hdtvfan2005

An engineer said that only the Cisco 8642HDC, 4642HDC, Samsung 3272, and Samsung 3262 are the only boxes capable of Multi Room DVR. Motorola boxes such as the 3200M and 3400M are compatible since iGuide A28 supports MR-DVR. Not sure when San Diego will get it, but the good news is that both ex-Adelphia and SD proper will be able to get it.

Originally Posted by rollcage

I have an 8300HD + external HD. I've had this setup for years and have had to replace the external drive once, after failure. Unfortunately, it appears the internal HD is starting to go bad. I often see severe pixelation in the live buffer, even with the external HD unplugged. This happens about every 1 to 3 minutes. My new recordings are fine, but I assume its because they are getting stored on the external HD. My hypothesis is that the internal HD is being used for buffering while the external for recording.
Any suggestions? Do you think I could force the live buffer to use the external HD somehow? Has anyone done an internal HD replacement in an 8300HD? I've seen in this forum that someone has had success doing so with a newer DVR.
Thanks for your advice!

Originally Posted by rollcage

My hypothesis is that the internal HD is being used for buffering while the external for recording.

Originally Posted by hdtvfan2005

Signature Home subscribers are getting ODN v4.0.1_0 and the menus in the Cisco boxes are still in 4x3.