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Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8300HD Question (DVR)
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rdhondt
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24. January 2007 @ 12:06 |
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Question: Why does the hard drive continue to run after the PVR is shut off & not recording? Mine seems to continually run.
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Ron
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Baphomet6
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25. January 2007 @ 19:18 |
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i have a cox SA 8300HD DVR and my computer doesnt reconize the unit when i plug it in throuh firewire, anyoen else have this problem?
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merman_93
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26. January 2007 @ 07:27 |
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Originally posted by rdhondt:
Question: Why does the hard drive continue to run after the PVR is shut off & not recording? Mine seems to continually run.
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Ron
With my unit, and Comcast, in Virginia, the unit is set up to always record for use as "replay" while watching tv. Example: watching Battlestar Galactica and phone rings, so basically miss 3-4 minutes. I just hit rewind and watch from the point I was interrupted, then at first commercial press "live" to return. It only stores the channel you are watching, from the beginning of the show.
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rwp
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31. January 2007 @ 09:51 |
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Originally posted by wrahn:
After I've made a recording, how can I play it back, stop and then start again at a later date, rather than have to fast forward each time to where I last stopped?
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Wes
I would also love to know if this is possible. Its most annoying to not be able to set a bookmark to come back to at a later time. Does anyone know if this is possible?
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Ron
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bogey99
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31. January 2007 @ 10:33 |
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I have the same question also. I believe that one time it did work when I paused what I was watching , started watching normal TV and came back later and it was still at the paused position so I picked up where I left off.
Anyone have any ideas?
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bshamster
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5. February 2007 @ 18:49 |
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Has anyone find a use for the USB ports, and/or figured out a way to delete channels that you are not receiving. There are 600 channels on my guide that i dont get and i dont want them on my guide.
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Brandon
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hyplux
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6. February 2007 @ 17:14 |
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(@bogey and Merman) You cannot record HDTV from secondary outputs on the 8300HD due to DMCA/HDCP restrictions. Any secondary ouputs (video out) are automatically downgraded due to licensing agreements. See this page for more: http://www.digital-cp.com/home
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7. February 2007 @ 13:12 |
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Bright house replaced my box and re-wired my apartment. The picture still has the same problems. i can;t wait till the cable company switches to a better box.
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merman_93
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10. February 2007 @ 02:05 |
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I'm still very happy with my service from Comcast, Full Premium Package, with On-Demand, and Broadband Internet. They have always been very "upfront" about what to expect. My HDTV is connected via HDMI and has an excellant picture. Only issue is available bandwidth. Sometimes when watching an On Demand Hi Def
program, I've noticed my Broadband internet "creeps" along, and may even reset the broadband modem. The cable box obviously has priority, as I've never seen any picture defects at peek usage.
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19. February 2007 @ 12:24 |
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Hmmm....I might blame my 15MB cable modem...except the quality goes way down when watching a recording...it is like they are using DivX3 or something (except divx3 would look better at such high bitrates).
If I d/l a DivX version of something I have on my hd-dvr (with HDMI) and watch it through my computer (hooked to tv with S-video) it looks better!!!
Still handy for recording long races (like the 8hr block that starts at 5am)...
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Stax
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19. February 2007 @ 15:15 |
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Just wanted to add my recent experience with DVR to DVDR recording. Maybe someone could shed some light on it.
I've got a program on my DVR, I recorded it onto a DVD-R disc with my DVD Recorder. When I went to watch the disc, about halfway through the program, the audio and video were out of sync (audio was about 2 seconds behind the video). So I figured 1 or 2 things happened. Either 1) my DVD recorder screwed up or 2)the station screwed up and broadcasted it out of sync. So I went back to the DVR and watched the program, everything was fine, the entire program was synced up great. So I got a new disc, popped it in the recorder, started the program at the halfway point, pressed record and bam, everything's out of sync again. Without pressing record, everything's fine, but as soon as I press record, it's out of sync again. Could this be some copy protection scheme?
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22. February 2007 @ 16:47 |
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You have a burner built into your scientific atlanta 8300hd? What cable company do you have? All mine has is a crummy "record to VHS" function...does anyone even sell blank VHS anymore?
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karen3737
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4. March 2007 @ 23:07 |
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Hey everyone, I've read a lot here and learned a ton! I thought that I'd share some stuff and then ask some questions as well. What I do to get content off of my 8300 Scientic Atlanta HDTV fancy-shmancy thing is hook up my camcorder to it. Its been a while since I've done it, so I'll do the best I can to explain. I hook up cords to the red, white, and yellow dvr holes, but in the front of the box, not the back ones. Except, I also vaguely remember hooking up a firewire cable to it as well. So maybe I did 2 of the front holes, and a the firewire connection as well.
After I got my show on my camcorder, which by the way, also gave me the chance to pause the camcorder, then fastforward through the commercials on my tv program to resume the program being recorded without the commercials, I would hook my camcorder up to my computer with the firewire cable and put into a dvd burning program. viola!
So now my question is this, although I have learned a lot by just doing some research, I'm not following along when it comes to exaclty knowing what's being talked about here. And now that we have a tv that gets some channels in HD, and we record some stuff in HD, what is the easiest and quickest way to get my shows(HD and not HD) off my dvr and onto to my computer without losing their quality? And I sort of mean in lay man's terms as well. I can't hook up a dvd burner to my dvr unit because I only have one on my computer...and my computer is about 20 feet away from my unit. And even if I got them together, I wouldn't know what to do to make it record to my computer. If I selected "record to vcr" and figured out the program on my computer and hooked up a long firewire cord, would that work? Obviously I have no idea what to do, except for my previous camcorder deal, which was long and involved. Any suggestions would be welcomed! (And also I realize that I would probably have to have the program on my computer as a whole with commercials and later edit the commericals out.)
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mhb_26101
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9. April 2007 @ 08:04 |
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I have a two second delay while changing channels over 99, is this normal?
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iriol
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10. April 2007 @ 03:47 |
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I've been trying to figure out the same, how the heck do I get HD recorded programs off from the 8300HD into my computer......I have heard is no use taking the hard drive out of the 8300HD because the recordings are encrypted.....
but any other method loses HD quality, I feel Comcast is ripping me off
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evinrude
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7. May 2007 @ 04:20 |
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I have the 8300HD box. Hooked up a little old tv as a monitor. Connected svideo cable from cable box to svideo input of my HP multimedia pc, launched Ulead Videostation 10, capture, selected svideo input, used cable dvr menu to select output recorded program to vcr, voila, recorded program from dvr appeared in preview window in Ulead !! I was feeling really confident at this point so I started the capture and walked away. I announced my marvelous electronic skills to my wife, and she very matter of factly said "are you sure you're getting the sound too?" I realized I wasn't sure I was getting sound or picture and maybe I should check a short segment to be sure. Here's what happened....I recorded a short segment and then played it back....black screen no sound...tried it again same result...checked to see if the AVI file got created, yes, 2 of them, normal size. launched one of them in WMP..no pic no sound..
How do i get video and sound to appear in captured file?
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16. May 2007 @ 10:34 |
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evinrude -
Try using a good video capture software (ulead is terrible, even for something included with an HP)
otherwise, try getting a good capture device (I don't know who makes HP's video capture stuff, but based on EVERYTHING else that HP includes in its systems, it must be a terrible piece of trash)
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Scarr25
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16. May 2007 @ 11:26 |
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Originally posted by evinrude:
I have the 8300HD box. Hooked up a little old tv as a monitor. Connected svideo cable from cable box to svideo input of my HP multimedia pc, launched Ulead Videostation 10, capture, selected svideo input, used cable dvr menu to select output recorded program to vcr, voila, recorded program from dvr appeared in preview window in Ulead !! I was feeling really confident at this point so I started the capture and walked away. I announced my marvelous electronic skills to my wife, and she very matter of factly said "are you sure you're getting the sound too?" I realized I wasn't sure I was getting sound or picture and maybe I should check a short segment to be sure. Here's what happened....I recorded a short segment and then played it back....black screen no sound...tried it again same result...checked to see if the AVI file got created, yes, 2 of them, normal size. launched one of them in WMP..no pic no sound..
How do i get video and sound to appear in captured file?
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Scarr25
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16. May 2007 @ 11:31 |
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sorry, didn't mean to repost that last message!!
I did want to make a comment on the dvr recording. The content recorded on the dvr is coptrighted and only allows you to record it in analog, not digital. Unless the software and dvd recorder on your computer can accomplish the analog recording I don't see how it can work.
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rditta
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19. May 2007 @ 19:06 |
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I plugged in a 500 Gig external Sata drive into my Scientific Atlanta 8300HD. When powered on it asked to format drive. I said yes and the page went away. I checked to see what disk utilization was and it said 83% so it did not see the 500 Gigs.
How do I know if the drive is working properly?
Thos forum is the only information I can find on figuring out wha to buy and what to do.
Help!!
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21. May 2007 @ 09:52 |
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I spoke with customer support at Bright House (my cable company & supplier of my DVR) because the external SATA HDD I tried to install won't work (DVR didn't even ask me to format). They told me quite calmly that they dissable the port. When I asked why, they told me it was policy and that they could not turn it back on. I told them that the manual that came with the unit claims this port as one of it's selling features, they said they are not responsible for the contents of the manual that they provided.
Long story short: bright house won't let me use SATA to increase capacity, and they have a sticker over the seam so I can't even upgrade the internal drive.
The customer 'service' rep told me that they might be getting a new version of the DVR soon, and that it would be available to me once they have it...but since company policy is to dissable the port, he didn't think the new one would work with an external drive either.
This was almost enough to drive me to TiVo...AND I WOULD CANCEL MY HD CABLE THAT MY DVR ONLY RECORDS AT ANALOGUE QUALITY, EXCEPT THEY WON'T LET ME HAVE 15mb ROAD RUNNER WITHOUT THE HD CHANNELS!!!
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 21. May 2007 @ 10:30
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rditta
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21. May 2007 @ 10:17 |
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Wow, thats not good. As it turns out all I had to do was plug it in. It asked if I wanted to format the drive. I said yes and got no other indication that the drive was working. I tested by copying many many hours overnight and they all recorded. I shut both the drive and the 8300HD and rebooted and when I checked the available disk sapce and it dropped used space from 83% to 18% so I assuem that it is seeing the drive in its entirety
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merman_93
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22. May 2007 @ 18:02 |
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Comcast here in Northern Virginia also disables the port.
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rditta
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23. May 2007 @ 04:47 |
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while I said earlier that it installed and everything seemed fine, its not.
Unfortunately recorded the finale of 24 and during the playback the drive somehow just stopped working. I had to pull the plug and reboot the 8300HD and the hard drive in sequence. I had to do it a couple times but somehow got through most of the show. During all playbacks I get a frozen picture for like 5 seconds and then it starts again. Every time that happens, I think I will have to reboot the devices.
Any ideas?
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3. July 2007 @ 15:40 |
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I own a 8300HD PVR I purchased and use it with rogers cable and what really bugs me is that they do upgrades to the firmware and even activated to eSata port and I did not know it until I read about it on a forum, often I just notice that new function are available through the remote, they recently add another notch to fast forward that comes in handy when trying to get back to where you stopped watching earlier, it now has four fast forward and rewind speeds. For people that are looking for external hard drive to use with this PVR several have been made that are targeted specifically at it, by Both Western Digital and Maxtor here are a couple of links. I had put off purchasing my unit for a long time due the 160 gig hard drive only holding 20 hours of HD programming not nearly enough.
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=334
http://www.weaknees.com/maxtor-quickview-expander-qvx.php
Hope this helps someone
Paul
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