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Posted by Stan Brown on 07/26/06 23:01
Sat, 22 Jul 2006 06:48:22 -0400 from Stan Brown
<the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm>:
> Sometime overnight, my DVR set its clock four hours ahead. It may or
> may not be significant that it's now on UTC (a/k/a Greenwich Mean
> Time). It will not let me set the time manually.
I spent several hours on the phone with Pioneer tech support this
past weekend, in three calls that didn't resolve the problem. But I
did get a phone number for second-level support. That fellow knew his
stuff. There seems to be either a bug in the TV Guide code *or* some
problem in the transmission of TV listings *and* time info through
Time-Warner cable (or both).
The cure is to reinitialize the TV Guide part of the DVR with a zip
code of 00000. Apparently that inhibits it from trying to get program
listings. A nice side effect is that when I turn it off, it actually
powers off -- previously, the hard drive never stopped spinning.
Of course, this means I don't get the program listings downloaded,
but I can well live without those.
--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
DVD FAQ: http://dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html
other FAQs: http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/faqget.htm
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