Phone Line

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fwiw, I have a Phillips DSR6000 DirecTivo.

What exactly is the phone line for? It was driving me nuts constantly
trying to connect while I was on the phone so I disconnected it. So far
it hasn't had any effect on my tivo-ing or program guide. I don't think
this version of Tivo is getting or has gotten an update in ages. Do I
need to plug it back in?
Thx

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* jlab13 wrote in alt.video.ptv.tivo:
> fwiw, I have a Phillips DSR6000 DirecTivo.

> What exactly is the phone line for? It was driving me nuts constantly
> trying to connect while I was on the phone so I disconnected it. So far
> it hasn't had any effect on my tivo-ing or program guide. I don't think
> this version of Tivo is getting or has gotten an update in ages. Do I
> need to plug it back in?
> Thx

If you havent recd the upgrade yet (to 6.2) you need the phone line
plugged in. There is a setting to tell Tivo to detect it you are on the
phone and to detect a dial tone, are they on or off?
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Jack Ak wrote:
> "jlab13" <spam@spam.com> wrote in message newsOwke.17266$_f7.15921@trndny01...
>
>>fwiw, I have a Phillips DSR6000 DirecTivo.
>>
>>What exactly is the phone line for? It was driving me nuts constantly
>>trying to connect while I was on the phone so I disconnected it. So far
>>it hasn't had any effect on my tivo-ing or program guide. I don't think
>>this version of Tivo is getting or has gotten an update in ages. Do I
>>need to plug it back in?
>
>
> There was a recent problem which affected 1st generation DirecTV DVRs.
> The Phillips DSR6000 was an affected brand. The call to DirecTV for PPV
> event billing was attempted hourly or more often and always failed.
>
> The call was attempted even for those who didn't have unreported PPV events.
> A configuration problem at the DVR call center prevented a successful call,
> so the call was rescheduled in the next minute and perhaps an hour later.
>
> The problem has now been resolved. You can replug the phone connection
> and you should no longer hear frequent DVR connection attempts on the phone line.
>

I do have "phone in use" detection set to on. It just seemd like it was
picking up, checking, then hanging up all the time while I was on the
phone so I unplugged it. It has only been unplugged for a few weeks.
My software version is 3.1.0c2-01-1-001. I'm pretty sure that's quite
old. Not sure if my old DSR is going to get this 6.2 I've read about.