About tony_w

I use Xfinity Connect in Firefox (on my Mac) to check my email. I always login and check the "keep me signed in" box which usually works fine and keeps me signed in for weeks at a time. But for the past few days it keeps logging me out every couple of minutes. One time it happened while I was composing an email and I lost everything (nothing was saved in the Drafts folder).   Any idea what's going on?   ... View more

I had used the exit exit exit 0030 method to program my pageup/pagedown buttons for 30-second skips. It was working fine until last night, I guess during the nightly reset, when the buttons reverted back to 5-minute skip. So I did the exit exit exit 0030 again, but now I have pageup as 30-second skip forward, and pagedown as 15-second skip backward. How do I get pagedown to go back to 30-second skip backward?   ... View more

I recently (finally) made the switch from a legacy DVR to an X1. Some things are better, some worse. I'm mostly ok with the changes, but I have some questions... The X1 box seems to be unable to record the live TV buffer. On the legacy box I could hit the record button any time while watching a show and the entire buffer back to the beginning of the show (or at the point where I changed the channel) would be recorded. But with the X1 the recording always begins at the time I hit the record button. Am I missing something, or is this just the way X1 works? With the legacy box I could use the "tuner swap" method to watch two shows at once. I could pause one, switch to the other tuner and watch a while, pause and return to the first tuner and resume from where I paused it. With X1 it seems like the only way to watch like this is to record everything and then use "last" two switch among the recordings. This will take some getting used to (and a few extra keystrokes on the remote), but I can get used to it. Seems like a waste of DVR space though. Another way I watched on the legacy box was to pause live TV and then watch something on the DVR for a while. I could always return to the live TV and resume from where I left off. Again, X1 seems to not work like this. Whenever I pause live TV and start watching a DVR recording, returning to the live show always returns to live, not where I paused it. When setting a series recording, the legacy box used to give me more options for adding extra time. There are a few shows that run 1 minute late, so that was a nice option. But the X1 apparently has 3 minutes as the minimum time. Again, am I missing something, or is adding 1 minute really not an option on X1? Maybe this doesn't really matter since there are 6 tuners on the X1 so  even with 3-minute padding I'll probably never run into clipping like with the 2-tuner legacy.   Speaking of padding, I have the preference set to pad all recordings. But am I correct in assuming that this works only for series recordings? I don't think I'm getting any padding for shows that I just record once (manually). I guess most of these are quibbles with the way Comcast wants me to record everything and not bother with the live TV buffer. I suppose I can get use to it eventually. But then there's this... Is frame-by-frame advance really gone? No slow-mo rewind at all? And there's just one slow-mo forward speed that isn't very slow? I'm a big sports fan and I use these all the time on the legacy box. It's almost a deal breaker for me. Not sure I can ever get used to not having them.   ... View more

I can't believe this is 2017 and I have to ask about HD channel availablity, but...   I'm in the Chicago area, and none of these channels are available in HD:   TV Land GSN ESPN Classics * Antenna * Me-TV Me-Too   * I think ESPN Classics and Antenna might not broadcast in HD, but the others do.   Also, most of the premium channels besides the main one (ie. HBO Signature/Family/Comedy, MMAX, AMAX, SHO 2, SHO C, SHO X, etc.) are not HD.   What's the reasoning behind not offering the HD version of these channels?   ... View more