The Switch
On the day of installation, the installation guy actually showed up on time. A short while later, a second guy came to help him set up service outside and in the basement. A couple of hours later a third guy came to help with setting up the cable card for the TiVo since the other two had never done it before.
So, we had a little FIOS party with three guys from about 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. When the left, everything was working pretty much flawlessly. I’ve used the router they force you to have before, so configuring it was no problem.
The first night of watching TV I started to notice an issue. My HD on certain channels would come in choppy and sometimes not at all. After some google searching I found this:
“Verizon FiOS (Series3 and TiVo HD only): If you are using a Series3 or TiVo HD DVR with Verizon FiOS, you may need to use a signal attenuator to decrease the strength of the signal before it enters the DVR. You may also want to use a low pass filter or diplexer to avoid macroblocking. Please contact Verizon Customer Support for more information or see Picture quality issues with Verizon FiOS service.”
So, I was able to fix the issue, right? Wrong. This post has been a draft for about a week now. Thats because my TiVo still isn’t working properly. I’m still getting skipping and freezing on my HD channels all of the time. After trying all kinds of different combinations of attenuators to decrease the signal strength to the perfect level, I’ve finally given up with that and Verizon is overnighting me a new cable card. I’ll post how that goes next week….
Update
Finally got a new TiVo, and the problem has been solved. Woohoo! FIOS, all in all, is fabulous.
TiVo Addiction
For the first time ever, I had issues with my TiVo.
I noticed on Wednesday that my TiVo hadn’t recorded anything since Monday night (I hadn’t been home much in between).
So, I checked my To Do List. Turned out there were only two items for October 12th and nothing else scheduled.
So I restarted, etc. Nothing worked. Checked the TiVo support site, nada. So I called TiVo support for the first time. The first guy told me to spend an hour cleaning out all of my To Do List and Program Information. No go.
The next day, the next girl told to turn off TiVo Suggestions, which she didn’t know how to find through the TiVo Menus. Luckily I had remembered seeing it a couple of days before. Then she told me to restart. She said that while I was waiting to restart, she would get off the phone with me, and call me back in fifteen minutes.
Alas, she never called back. However, while I was waiting, I manually deleted all of my Season Passes and each “none scheduled” item in my To Do List. After I re-added all my season passes, everything has been peachy.
This post isn’t really about so-so customer service. This post is really about how thoroughly sad I was to be missing my TiVo for a couple of days, and how positively relieved I was when I had fixed it. So silly.
I Wear My Glasses Far Too Often
Ever since I got my new glasses, I am wearing them far too often. Pretty soon the world without them will be completely fuzzy.
Love, love, love the Delicious redesign. I was part of the beta, but I didn’t really use it. Definitely seems speedier, which was my only complaint. I am such a delicious addict.
Speaking of addictions, if Apple ever gets totally rid of Input Mangers, I’m screwed. Edit-in-TextMate is just indispensable.
Not surprised that TiVo has let the Series 3 go.
Loved the SYTYCD season finale. I voted for Katee, but I knew that Joshua would win. I’m very happy that she was the top girl, though. I would also like to point out that Katee was in four of the ‘favorite’ dances while the rest of the four finalists were only in two (or three, in Twitch’s case) dances each.
I’m liking Shear Genius much more than Project Runway. I didn’t expect that at all.
Cablevision added a whole mess of HD channels last week. Including Discovery HD, FX HD, AMC HD and Spike HD. All this really means are HD versions of MythBusters, Deadliest Catch, Rescue Me and repeats of CSI. Pretty awesome though.
Incase you couldn’t tell, I’ve really been missing lists.
Psychic TiVo
After having it only a couple of weeks, my new TiVo HD recorded Reality Bites and Top Gun. Like wow.
My TiVo Gets Me.™
