Contour mini box wakes up to COX advertising
I recently added a Contour mini box to one of my TVs. The box worked fine for several weeks. Starting about two weeks ago, when first turned on in the morning, the TV displays a sort of advertising ...
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It looks like a quasi-screensaver mode. I've seen this Showtime ad on my screensaver, but I've never seen the weather graphic only display the temp. My graphics show a combo of things: a descriptive narrative, an icon and the temp...or...the time and temp. Never just the temp...unless this is normal for the Mini.
Also, if there are no accompanying landscapes or animals, it's not the full-blown screensaver.
However, I don't know why the screensaver would kick-in because you're not in a mode...such as being inactive while navigating Contour...for the screensaver to engage. Like I mention, screensavers don't kick-in if you're watching a program.
You may have discovered a quirky...and inconvenient....mode of this "newer" Mini Box. Normally, when you turn on your TV, you'd use the Mini remote and to get out of this quasi-mode, you'd need to press the Any key on the Mini remote. Therefore, during normal ops (using the Mini remote), you'd actually never see these ads because you're using the Mini remote.
However, you're turning on your TV via another means (timer). It'd be the same as turning on your TV with the TV-supplied remote. In either case, you're not using the Mini remote. It seems like you've caught the Mini Box off guard by not using its remote.
Other than an initial setup, I don't know when Mini users would ever see these ads because they'd normally use the Mini remote.
HDMI, CEC or Digital Rights might be the issue by just pausing during renegotiation until you "command" a program to authenticate. In your LG settings, anything resembling SimpLink enabled?
Yea... my mother always told me I was special. I thought about scrolling through the TV settings for any possibilities.
