[mythtv-users] (US) Dump Comcast for a dish, good Mythtv decision?

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Mon Aug 31 21:16:19 UTC 2009


On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Jeff<junk_inbox at verizon.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 2:29 PM, drew einhorn <drew.einhorn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:21 PM, John Drescher<drescherjm at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> The annoying things now
>> >> are that sometimes in the middle of a movie airing in the middle of
>> >> the night the box downloads updates and reboots itself.
>> >
>> > That happened to me last night ( around 12:22) with comcast when I was
>> > watching a movie. The frustration is that the box does not come back
>> > to a useful state for at minimum 10 minutes. I really wish they would
>> > schedule reboots at 4:00AM..
>> >
>>
>> If they really cared about the customer, the dvr would check to see
>> if it's busy recording, and wait until the recording is complete.
>
> But that's not possible for them to detect if we're feeding it's output into
> MythTV... ;-)
>
For this case I was watching live SD digital tv and the cable box
rebooted in the middle of that. After a reboot it waits to download
firmware (I assume). During that remains inoperable for at minimum 10
minutes while it displays a Blue Scientific Atlanta Terminal screen
logo.

John


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