Hello friends, For about three years, I allowed TiVo to change the way I watch television. I loved it!
Now, due to Comcast insisting that they are going to upgrade the higher channels to digital, and demanding that I get (free) boxes from them, I cannot seem to get proper channel changes, and therefore am missing some of the programs I like to watch. I am using the Comcast DTA (digital transport adapter) in conjunction with the infrared blasters plugged into the TiVo boxes, and sometimes the channels change correctly, sometimes they don't. TiVo instructions say to stick the IR blasters to the DTA box so that the sending unit is about 1.5 inches from the sensor. I have done that, and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. So I used the remote sensor on the DTA box, have the IR blasters positioned about 1.5 inches from that, and still, the channel changes are not correct every time. Sometimes they are, sometimes they're not. I've gone through the process of letting the TiVo learn how to change the channels, and it works on most of the channel changes, but the problems, occur with the higher channels (35 to 82), where sometimes I want 56 and I get 5. Sometimes I want 56 and I get 6. Is there a magic way to tell when you have the blasters positioned correctly? And I don't suppose ... I could not be lucky enough ... it is possible to use a cable with little tiny jacks on both ends, and have the TiVo IR OUT plug directly into the DTA IR IN and have it work properly? Having infrared between the two units is like driving on a four-lane freeway, then having it narrow to two lanes and traffic gets all screwed up. IR is the two lane section. Talk about the weakest link in a chain. If I can't get this to work reliably, I may have little choice other to go to Comcast's own cable-box-DVR thingie, and lose all the goodness of owning two TiVo boxes. I suppose I could have known that it would be too good to last forever. Dave Schultheis San Jose -- dave6592 [at] accesscom [dot] com - http://www.accesscom.com/~dave6592 Dave Schultheis, San José, Silicon Valley, Santa Clara County, CA, USA
