Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8000HD PVR

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Does anyone know when the DVI port on the captioned will be made operational?

 

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It will depend on whether your cable provider wants to send the software
update downstream.


"Tim Gray" <timgray@rogers.com> wrote in message
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> Does anyone know when the DVI port on the captioned will be made
operational?

 

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"Tim Gray" <timgray@rogers.com> wrote
> Does anyone know when the DVI port on the captioned will be made
operational?

Latest word from Time Warner is the Fall. You should have the newer update
pushed in thelast couple of weeks that activated "Archive to VCR" and had
some Picture Quality improvements.

Scientific Atlanta hasn't released the update to make the DVI active...yet.

 

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"Krusty" <are-es-pee-double-u-krusty@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Tim Gray" <timgray@rogers.com> wrote
> > Does anyone know when the DVI port on the captioned will be made
> operational?
>
> Latest word from Time Warner is the Fall. You should have the newer update
> pushed in thelast couple of weeks that activated "Archive to VCR" and had
> some Picture Quality improvements.
>
> Scientific Atlanta hasn't released the update to make the DVI
active...yet.
>
>

I have gotten those last changes and they are nice.... but what about being
able to change the volume level of optical output via the SA8000HD on
digital channels? It only works on analog channels... am I doing somethign
wrong or is there an update?

 

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Jason wrote:
>
> "Krusty" <are-es-pee-double-u-krusty@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:2z5Cc.53625$wH4.3453085@twister.southeast.rr.com...
> > "Tim Gray" <timgray@rogers.com> wrote
> > > Does anyone know when the DVI port on the captioned will be made
> > operational?
> >
> > Latest word from Time Warner is the Fall. You should have the newer update
> > pushed in thelast couple of weeks that activated "Archive to VCR" and had
> > some Picture Quality improvements.
> >
> > Scientific Atlanta hasn't released the update to make the DVI
> active...yet.
> >
> >
>
> I have gotten those last changes and they are nice.... but what about being
> able to change the volume level of optical output via the SA8000HD on
> digital channels? It only works on analog channels... am I doing somethign
> wrong or is there an update?


I had big audio volume differences on my SA-3250-HD TW Box when

switching between Analog & HD favorites channels....

My local Home Theater Store told me to set 3250-HD remote audio

menu to Fixed, NOT Variable.... That solved the Sound Diff
Problem...

And on NHT Powered Sub Woofer hum... In effect 'Remove' the

'third' Grounding Pin from the Plug... Go with 2 way Power Plug.

It worked too....

 

[Jason]

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"Dennis Mayer" <Polaris1@execpc.com> wrote in message
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>
>
> Jason wrote:
> >
> > "Krusty" <are-es-pee-double-u-krusty@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > news:2z5Cc.53625$wH4.3453085@twister.southeast.rr.com...
> > > "Tim Gray" <timgray@rogers.com> wrote
> > > > Does anyone know when the DVI port on the captioned will be made
> > > operational?
> > >
> > > Latest word from Time Warner is the Fall. You should have the newer
update
> > > pushed in thelast couple of weeks that activated "Archive to VCR" and
had
> > > some Picture Quality improvements.
> > >
> > > Scientific Atlanta hasn't released the update to make the DVI
> > active...yet.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > I have gotten those last changes and they are nice.... but what about
being
> > able to change the volume level of optical output via the SA8000HD on
> > digital channels? It only works on analog channels... am I doing
somethign
> > wrong or is there an update?
>
>
> I had big audio volume differences on my SA-3250-HD TW Box when
>
> switching between Analog & HD favorites channels....
>
> My local Home Theater Store told me to set 3250-HD remote audio
>
> menu to Fixed, NOT Variable.... That solved the Sound Diff
> Problem...
>
> And on NHT Powered Sub Woofer hum... In effect 'Remove' the
>
> 'third' Grounding Pin from the Plug... Go with 2 way Power Plug.
>
> It worked too....

Unfortunatly I want to control the volume through the cable box, not the
receiver. I guess I should just go and buy a decent universal remote for
both rooms... oh well..

 

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The Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8000HD PVR just became available through
Cox Communications in Las Vegas a few days ago. I got one and I am
having the same problem that I had with my Scientific Atlanta Explorer
3250HD cable box - I use the digital output and the audio drops out for
a split second at a time... often. I have tried both the optical and
coaxial digital outputs, 2 different cables of each type, and 3
different home theater receivers, all with the same result. So it has
to be either a glitch in the design of the 8000HD/3250HD or it is
something wrong with the cable service. No one at Cox has been of any
help. The phone support representatives I spoke with could not
successfully troubleshoot this problem, and they claim that they cannot
contact Scientific Atlanta (and Scientific Atlanta won't support
consumer inquiries - they refer you to your cable provider). All they
can do is send out a technician. The technician who came to look at my
3250HD box, which gave me the same problem, was clueless - he didn't
even know what the optical digital output was for. He said that he had
never seen a box hooked up to a receiver via the digital outputs.

(My 3250HD box had another issue, too - sometimes the audio and video
would get out of sync. This has happened once on my 8000HD box so
far.)

Does anyone else have this same problem? It makes the TV-watching
experience unenjoyable when the audio continuously drops out. If
anyone knows how to resolve this problem, I would greatly appreciate
it.

To "fix" this problem with the 3250HD box, I had to downgrade to the
3100HD box, which has its own set of problems, but did not have the
audio drop-out issue.

Thanks,
Kevin


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KevinLasVegasCoxHD