Motorola 34xx &64xx DVR "Official Thread" - Page 2

There isn't one - for setting up the remote you hold down the function and the OK/Sel until the function binks and use chnl up or chnl down to cycle through codes - the device should cut off when the right code is there (helping note - you can slowly work your way back one at a time once it's cut off and hit the power button to turn it back on and make sure you have the right code) - once you have the correct one hit the Function button again to program

Unfortunately like most universal remotes (Particularly the ones we've had) most the time the setup button if there is one won't control the menu options on a TV etc (I've used about 4 different ones on my magnavox and only one would do it)

For DCT box setup hitting Menu twice (first time brings up quick menu) takes you into the full box menu.

As for the instructions on the 30 second skip, those are definitely not written for this model - per my post I'm taking it up with MFG - you can hit their website at www.universalremote.com - most of our remotes are from Universal

One of the TIVO III developers assured me that support for the M Card was developed, tested and released - however given the lack of success I've seen with it, I'd say something isn't quite there. - the M Card will autho just fine, it just won't authorize both tuners with one card... which is the whole point of M-Card VS pre 7/07 Standard cards.

As I understand it, TIVO is in the process of setting up a USB attachment that will give the SIII (and HD) the functionality it needs for 2 way support of SDV.

Nutshell for SDV - it's a VOD like system for "live" streams - in VOD the box requests a title from the menu and a series of Video servers will stream it out and your box is sent to a hidden virtual channel where you can view the stream.

In SDV, the idea is to save bandwidth by showing only the channels being watched.... Let's take the MLB channels for example - most of thier traffic occurs between 7pm and 1am. Then you also have a large number of kids channels that get most of their traffic from 6am to 7pm. We'd put them all in a switched system and the box would tell the system - Hey I want to watch "Noggin" - so the system sees where it's streaming Noggin out at and switched you there. But if no one is watching "Noggin" that space might be used for someone watching the Cubs play baseball... If one person is streaming the channel, all the system has to do is add all future requests to the same channel...

The big thing is it needs that 2 way ability and the program that will talk back and forth to tell us what you are watching and when you are no longer watching it.

The good news is Charter isn't jumping on this wildly... Time Warner seems to be the front runner on this technology (and I imagine we are all to happy to let them swim out and find all the sharks before we jump in the ocean...)


So the TIVO shouldn't become a $600 paperweight just because of SDV - unless of course you're one of the unlucky souls in a system that is diving into that shark infested water... Hopefully by the time SDV becomes widespread TIVO will have the equipment in place to work with it.

I'm not aware of any 30 second skip feature availible on a 64xx 32xx series... Thought I greatly miss that feature (we had it when Moxi first rolled, then they changed it due to media pressure, then 4.1 allowed users to change the time to their preference)

I've noticed that instant replay is duplicated in the page down button... but Page up doesn't give you a quick jump forward - for now I'll say no - but I'll see if I can get any info from the remote MFG to see if such a code can be programmed on the ABCD buttons

I have not heard anything on that, though I'd hit several major people in the Charter Digital/Technicial operations about getting it ASAP as we currently have moxi's and 6416s and Marketing simply pushes both as "DVR Service" - so alot of CSRs etc don't really know the differences... having a *major* feature such as external expansion on one, but not another is to me a definite issue.

I do know there are plans to upgrade the guide soon The Current I-guide is A-24... and there have been bugs since going to the I-guide (A23 was the first version) platform. How soon it is before we see A25, I don't know, but I know when we upgrade the Guide we tend to also upgrade VOD apps and base firmware. Currently my biggest beef with A24 is memory fragmentation on the boxes - this can cause VOD errors on the oldest boxes which have the least memory... and the only resolution for such errors is to power cycle the box. I'm pretty certain this is a limitation of the A24 guide as the problem seems to be happening on at least 2 different VOD platforms.

I'm having no luck doing this with a UR4U-MDVR-CHD2 - I even got a fresh one and checked out a few other options. - Looking at the instructions this isn't intented for our most common "Silver" remotes.

I've sent an email to the remote MFG to see if there is a way to correctly program this function on the UR4U-MDVR-CHD2 (which also uses the same codes as the Explorer 8000 one for most functions)

The 6416 does not have a PIP function, the PIP options on the remote is for TVs that support PIP.

Ahhh, Actually I think the confusion might be certfication VS someone @ TIVO telling me that in their test labs they got it working - I wasn't aware SIII wasn't certified. I was simply told by one of thier lab gurus who monitored TIVO Community forums when I posted the issues I had there of what they tested with their "lab" DAC. - and to be completely fair to them, they said "in theory" that it should work

I'd love to get a my hands on an HD for testing, however unless a customer in my area gets one and invites me over, chances are, I won't

No problem - I would like to think that functionality is built into the dual tuner boxes, but I think we'll have to wait on TV Guide to either set up the guide functionality or some sort of Moto firmware to unlock any box based PIP. Given my experience with Box based Closed Captioning, I think I'll stick with the TV PIP functionality for now.

I know I got some giggles last week, as I keep a computer attached to my HD LCD - it's more of a toy than a real media center... I use it for my MMORPG Guid Teamspeak Server and occasionally to play music or videos through my home theater setup. We wanted to keep an eye on the news so we had that in the PIP window and the computer in the background... Then when my buddy brought over his machine I had him use the connections to LAN game with a Music choice channel on the HT (in in the window)


On the Subject of PIP - it's my understanding that the RCA inputs on this series DO work... but for now they only serve as a "pass through" input when the box is off. Of course that's pretty lame considering if you turn off the 6416 you can't record.

Have you powercycled it? I'm curious to know if it might just be one of those odd programming glitches that incorrectly report recording percentage etc - The only other thing I would think it might be would be a failure of the second tuner, but that would be very odd for you get to two boxes in a row with the same problem.

As I understand it the AV RCA inputs only work as a pass-through - they will pass signal through only when the box is turned off. Try it with the box turned off - if that doesn't work try the rear inputs (front may be disabled entirely) if neither work while the unit is turned off then they are completely disabled.

I've not experimented with this, as most people aren't interested in using them while the box is turned off. The USB does not function for any sort of input at this time.

Bicker's on the nose with this one - If it happens over several box swapouts, it's not the box, I'm pretty certain you're probably looking at a firmware issue on the TV (possibly an issue with the TV's HDMI input) - with luck it's just a quick flash update - either way if it's under warranty, have them check it out