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Contour 2 DVR shutdown gone
I noticed that recently when I shut off my TV my Contour DVR did not shut off. There used to be an HDMI connection shut down with TV option under LABS and now it's gone. I have a bad lipsync issue with my soundbar if running HDMI from my TV, so I have to run a separate audiofiber cable directly from my DVR to my soundbar. There really ever has been a shutdown on this DVR which is really annoying but it used to have that option. When it sensed the TV was shut off it would shut off. I now have to manually shut off the box with the button on the front. If I don't, my soundbar will kick back on because of the direct connection. Is there any way to shut down the DVR from the remote or any other way? I sure can't find it.8.6KViews0likes5CommentsRe: Phone upgrade Letter
Just a bad situation all around having to run phone service from the COAX connection in the house.At least its a separate box so it doesn't have to go in the same room as the cable modem,............ because I would want the jacks in the house to be live and the landline in another room. I assume that the line can be split so a contour box and this MTA can run out of the same Cable jack? This was never what was expected when using COX for phone.2Views0likes0CommentsRe: Phone upgrade Letter
Boy this is a mess. Some of you are in WAY worse state than I am. Landlines are more rare today, but people that have then have them for a reason and for Cox to do this really is not what I would consider a land line anymore. Good to know about Century Link. That might be the way to go to keep the existing wiring working the way it is. So can any one of you help me understand. Does this new piece of equipment replace the existing cable modem or is it an additional piece of equipment? If I'm forced to do this I"m wondering if I could put it in a place that I actually have a phone jack.....course I'm sure I would need both....cable jack and phone jack next to each other in any case.1View0likes0CommentsRe: Phone upgrade Letter
Thanks for the info but that totally disrupts my setup. I do not need or want the house phone in the room where the internet connection and cable modem is. That is a home office that uses a different IP based phone. So there is no option to just leave things as they are and continue using the phone lines in the wall?? The other problem with this is safety. Right now one of the best things still about even having a land line is the fact its always powered. In a power outage a person can plug in an old style push button or rotary phone and they will be powered and work. This would take that away.1View0likes0CommentsPhone upgrade Letter
I know there have been several posts on this but want to ask for myself. I keep getting the phone upgrade letter. I use the jacks in my house for just old school land line. I have my own answering machine and don't need any bells and whistles. I believe I have the Cisco DPC3010 modem and connect that to my own router for wifi. From what I am reading I have to upgrade my internet modem to one with a phone jack and plug that into an outlet to distribute dial tone to the rest of the house. My problem with that is that I do not have a phone jack in the room that we use for the office. We only have a phone jack in the master bedroom, living room, and kitchen. What happens in this case, and is it not possible to just continue the way I am?20KViews0likes22Commentslipsync
I know this is a very popular subject in other forums but thought I'd check here. When I upgraded to Countour 2 I also upgraded my TV to a Samsung smart TV and added a Polk Audio Mini sound bar. I wanted to simplify from using a receiver. I ran HDMI originally from Cable box to TV and HDMI from TV to soundbar., When watching cable I had a lipsync issue that cannot be adjusted. It's the opposite of the TV adjustment. The sound is delayed, the adjustments just delay it more. It'a also only on Dolby Digital. PCM is fine but who wants that. I thought this was a Samsung issue so I ran coax digital directly from the countour DVR to the soundbar bypassing the TV for sound. That pretty much solved the problem, but even with that sometimes it gets off a little so I have to shut everything off and back on. Since PCM works, it's as if there is just too much decoding going on. I wish it was possible to send just a bitstream signal out of the cable box and let the TV or the Soundbar do the decoding. When I choose bitstream output though I have to choose Dolby Digital. This is just guessing based on other forums I've read. That rambled quite a bit, but hopefully you get the idea. ....Ive not really thought about the DVR being the issue however another point is when streaming through the TV, where the cable box is not in the picture........everything is fine. Any thoughts or ideas?1.6KViews0likes1CommentEmail screen refresh
Any way to stop the new email from refreshing? Doesn't seem to have any pattern or matter what browser. I can be right in the middle of an email and it refreshes, and I lose the email. Has happened several times to both my wife and I on different PC's. I am pretty much forced to write any longer email in notepad and paste it in, or I will surely lose it.1.8KViews0likes2Comments