Question for you guys

Does anyone have Rogers and having break ups during 99% of programming, Center Ice, every channel is having feed problems.

Anyone else...

504Heater wrote:Does anyone have Rogers and having break ups during 99% of programming, Center Ice, every channel is having feed problems.

Anyone else...

I have Rogers digital and I am not having any problems.

Check your signal levels. Assuming your set-top box is a Scientific America the instructions (and explanations) at the link below should help.

http://www.dslreports.com/faq/sciatl/3.1_Using_diagnostic_screens

If it turns out that you've got a problem with your signal then check all your connections and any splitters you might have.

Okay thanks, will do!

504Heater wrote:Okay thanks, will do!

Yeah - this sounds like a signal level issue. I've had a similar problem. If that's what it is, you'll have to get a Rogers tech out to visit and they'll install a signal amplifier on your line to fix the problem.

Just don't let them see that your cable is split 5 ways... (4 TV's and internet)

If you have VIP you get 3 or 4 connections I believe.

Interesting - I was thinking of switching but maybe not now.

Expressvu gives an unlimited number of connections (but you have to have decoders; I believe that Rogers still pumps basic cable down each line whether you pay or not, as long as there is the internet feed)

Acrobat wrote:Interesting - I was thinking of switching but maybe not now.

Expressvu gives an unlimited number of connections (but you have to have decoders; I believe that Rogers still pumps basic cable down each line whether you pay or not, as long as there is the internet feed)

yeah same with Rogers... You need a digital box for every TV....

Man gotta get me a PVR though... Those things are awesome... anyone know where we can get them for cheap??

I'm considering Slingbox myself. It might even have built in PVR (hypothetically, it shouldn't be too hard to rig up).

But yeah, the mighty gods of PVR are definitely deserving of our praise.

mattshock wrote:I'm considering Slingbox myself. It might even have built in PVR (hypothetically, it shouldn't be too hard to rig up).

But yeah, the mighty gods of PVR are definitely deserving of our praise.

i'm really not familiar with this slingbox thing at all... How does it work exactly??

You plug your tv in one end, internet in the other, and you can log in from anywhere and stream/control your tv over the internet.

CI Online is more expensive than regular CI I think, and I'd get all of my dad's regular programming.

Win/win.

mattshock wrote:You plug your tv in one end, internet in the other, and you can log in from anywhere and stream/control your tv over the internet.

CI Online is more expensive than regular CI I think, and I'd get all of my dad's regular programming.

Win/win.

ah ok... But so it's to watch TV on your computer right? or whatever portable device you have? yeah that's neat, but I don't really need that, I just want to be able to record everything! LOL

Man... the PVR changed my life. Seriously. This is one of the few devices that I would not be able to do without. Those of you with kids will be able to understand. First off, there's no way my wife and I have time to watch our TV shows live in "real time". The PVR grabs all our shows during the week and we watch them later when we can, ripping through the ads with ease. The only thing I watch live is sports as I can't seem to get up for watching a game after it's done unless it was a crazy game. Sometimes I'll start to watch a game 15-20 minutes after it's started and catch up by ripping through commercials along the way.

The PVR's built in feature of "recording everything your watching at the time" is sweet and let's you pause live TV and rewind back and check something out (ie: Janet Jackson's slip up at the Super Bowl half time show) provided it's still in the buffer.

If you don't have one, get one.

You can add more capacity to the Rogers PVRs by attaching an external SATA drive. This is good if everything you record is in HD as it does chew up a lot of space. A few HD movies, hockey games, a weeks worth of shows... and it adds up.

Yeah, it doesn't work on iPhones (jailbroken ones are ok), as it's not on the Apple Apps Store, and you need proprietary software to stream the feeds. I know my buddy has it working on his Nokia n95.

I move every four months, and don't have a tv, so the computer streaming works great for me.