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About tony_w
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02-08-2020
tony_w
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02-08-2020
06:01 PM
Not an ideal solution since I would have to perform all those steps every time I switch to a new secure hotspot? Yikes. Not good for someone out on the road all day.
Anyway, I tried the steps and it didn't work. Actually, there was no place to enter the domain at all. Just EAP, Phase 2, CA cert, and identity/password. I click Connect and it tries to connect and fails.
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I think I may have answered my own question...
I tested this with movies airing on other channels (Cinemax, Showtime, Starz) and I was able to use the "Restart" option on all of them to start whatever movie was currently airing from the beginning On Demand. So, what was different about HBO? I think Godzilla might have been a premiere tonight, so maybe it's not available On Demand until after the first airing?
Anyway, now that it's done airing on HBO I am able to watch it On Demand.
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Tonight I wanted to watch Godzilla on HBO. It started at 7:00, but I was 15 minutes late. I can't find any way to watch the movie from the beginning. The "Watch Options" only lists "Watch on HBO" but no option to restart from the beginning or watch On Demand.
So, the only option seems to be to wait until it's finished airing on HBO and then try to watch it On Demand, or wait for the second airing on HBO later tonight. That doesn't sound right. Is there really no way to watch from the beginning while the movie is currently airing?
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11-28-2019
07:36 PM
So, nobody knows? I've done a lot of searching in the past couple of weeks and I still can't find an answer.
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11-15-2019
09:09 PM
1 Kudo
How do I get my Android phone to connect to secure Xfinity wifi hotspots?
I have installed the Xfinity Hotspots app. I open it and sign in and then all it does is show me a map of the area. If I select the preference to "automatically choose best connection" then I get signed on to an unsecure xfinitywifi network. That's not what I want. I want a secure XFINITY hotspot.
I can actually sign on to the unsecure xfinitywifi network manually, without even using the Hotspots app, so I'm not sure what the app is doing? But I can't find a way to sign on to a secure XFINITY hotspot.
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09-18-2019
12:28 AM
1 Kudo
Yeah, my Pac 12 HD (1329) also disappeared. Only the SD (419) available now. What the heck? (Chicago area.)
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09-08-2019
12:34 AM
Hmmm, interesting. So when I'm watching something like channel 1007 (the local ABC affiliate), the buffer works because that's just a "mirror" of channel 187 so I'm watching via tuner even though I'm on the 1000+ channel. But a channel like 1329 (Pac-12) which doesn't have a lower channel mirror, then I'm just streaming and there's no buffer. Sound about right?
And yeah, I know I could just record it. I do that sometimes for shows I'm watching live. But sports is so ingrained in my head to watch live that I usually don't think to record it. :)
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09-07-2019
11:37 PM
When I start to watch a DVR recording on my X1 box, the live channel that I was previously watching keeps on buffering. When I exit the recording, I can rewind back through the buffer to catch what I missed.
However, I notice that at least one of the high numbered (1000+) channels doesn't do this. Today I was watching the Pac-12 network on channel 1329. It doesn't have a lower channel number in HD like most other networks, so this was my only choice. I noticed something odd right away because instead of quickly switching to the channel, I got the three "wait" dots for several seconds before the channel appeared. After watching for a while (the buffer was working fine while I was watching live) I started watching a DVR recording. A few minutes later I exited the recording, and again got the three "wait" dots for a while before the channel 1329 popped up again. At this point the buffer was reset.
Anyone know what's going on here? I tried several other 1000+ numbered channels and they all saved the buffer just fine after switching back and forth to a DVR recording. I also tried this particular channel again later in the day and had the same problem (complete with the "wait" dots). So far I can't duplicate the problem on another channel.
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05-25-2019
06:27 PM
I never manually empty the trash. I think I did it once when I first got the DVR a few months ago just to test it, and never did it again.
But here's the thing, usually when I'm finished watching a show and I delete it, the DVR usage updates immediately. For example, I'm currently at 75% and I just finished watching a 1-hour recorded show and when I delete it the usage changes to 74%.
So it's obviously updating the free space when I delete the show, not when I empty the trash.
To test this, I just took a look and I had 21 "recently deleted" shows. I'm showing 74% full. I emptied the trash, restarted the DVR, double-checked that it now says 0 "recently deleted" shows, and the storage indicator stayed at 74%.
So emptying the trash had no effect on the usage indicator.
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05-21-2019
04:58 PM
I have noticed some really odd things about the way my DVR reports the amount of available free space. A few examples:
It displays 86% used. I watch two saved 1-hour episodes of a show, delete them, then record one 30-minute show. Now it says 90% used.
It displays 82% used. I watch one saved 1-hour show and delete it. Still says 82% used. Overnight it records one 30-minute show. The next morning it says 74% used.
What's going on here? XG1-A box. All recordings are HD.
STB version AX013AN_3.6p6s1_PROD_sey
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03-15-2019
10:12 AM
I just talked to an agent on the phone and they are aware of the problem. Of course no further info available, and no ETA on a fix.
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02-20-2019
03:28 AM
I figured out I can use Xfinity Stream to watch my DVR recordings on my iPad or phone, but that requires wi-fi, which also is unavailable when I'm in the middle of a service outage. I even tried to access a few of the local Xfinity wi-fi hotspots, but those also apparently go down during a service outage. So that leaves me with streaming on my wireless plan, which would eat up my data allowance so that's not an option.
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02-20-2019
12:15 AM
So I've been living with this X1 box for about 6 weeks. I love the 6 tuners and the way the guide integrates the DVR, On Demand and streaming options. The voice remote has also proved much more useful than I originally thought. It has taken some getting used to, but for the most part I'm pretty happy with it. However, in addition to the quirks I already mentioned I have found a flaw that will prove to be a deal breaker for me. When the cable goes out, the DVR becomes a useless brick. With the legacy DVR I could always watch my recorded shows even when the cable service was out, but not with the X1 box. The X1 won't even boot if there's no cable signal. Do I have a bad DVR, or is this the way it's supposed to work? This is a problem because we have service interruptions in my area about once a week, lasting anywhere from 1-12 hours. These are not interruptions specific to me, they are area-wide problems. I know this because when I call to report the outage I always get the recorded message saying it's a known outage affecting my X1 services in my area for X amount of people and we expect to have service restored at such-and-such time. And when I talk to an agent they always apologize and then offer to give me a credit on my bill. That's nice, but I'd rather have the service working. So, when the service goes out it's nice to be able to watch my recorded shows. With X1, I can no longer do that. Unless I'm missing something?
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01-17-2019
08:20 PM
It changed for me. Like I said, I now have 30-second skip forward on the pageup button, and 15-second skip backward on the pagedown key. They were definitely both 30-second skips before yesterday. There's a separate key above that does the 15-second skip backward. So now I've got that one and the pagedown button doing the same thing.
I tried rebooting the box (power off, wait a minute, power back on), but that didn't change anything.
Possibly related? I do notice my box is a lot more sluggish today. Opening the menus and scrollling through the program listings, etc. There's a noticeable delay while the screen redraws.
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01-17-2019
01:14 PM
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?
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01-06-2019
09:23 PM
The problem with using tuner swap the new way on X1 is that I have to plan ahead. I have to remember to record everything I want to watch, and everything I might want to watch, and then start watching on the DVR. If I'm watching a show live and then decide I want to record it...nope, can't do that anymore. And with the way I like to watch football, I will have to record the game I want to watch live, and also record NFL Red Zone (which runs 6+ hours!). That's the only way I can switch between the two with a working pause on X1. Not exactly user friendly.
I have also noticed that the X1 box is a bit sluggish compared to the legacy. Menus take longer to open, which makes navigating them a bit slower. I guess form over function here is inevitable. I'll get used to it. Not that big a deal.
That reminds me...Is there a setting to control how long the overlay stays on screen when I skip forward or backward? Or remove it entirely?
One more thing...When I say "fast forward two minutes" into the remote, it sometimes interprets it as "fast forward to minutes," which does not do what I wanted it to do. That should probably never happen.
But yeah, losing frame-by-frame and the multiple slow motions...that might be a reason to go back to legacy. We'll see.
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01-06-2019
08:45 PM
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.
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03-30-2017
04:10 PM
1 Kudo
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?
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