Missing sound found

I finally noticed that my TiVo was in the “Pending Restart” state. I restarted it, and bang! new version of the TiVo software (8.1.1-something!).

And this version (among other things) fixes the sound issue that I was having with Comcast SportsNet DC. Of course, this happens exactly one day after the last thing I wanted to see on this channel was aired. Figures.

Now my current issue (which I hope resolves itself) is that Verizon is in the process of moving all the channels around, and I’m currently in the state where some of the channel changes have been applied by TiVo, but not yet by Verizon. And (I think) some changes have been applied by Verizon but not yet by TiVo.

The new TiVo software adds a bunch of features, the most interesting which are “TivoCast” and the “Recently Deleted” folder that now shows up. TivoCast is (I think) the broadband video download service that Tivo is rolling out. I can’t tell how to use it yet. If I ever visited tivo.com, I would have found it obvious how to use it. However, I guess I’m on the cutting edge of this software update, since Tivo Central Online doesn’t seem to realize that the S3 now supports TivoCast.

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4 comments

  1. Pete
    2/20/2007 at 1:15 pm

    But what of the important stuff, like, “Does the display actually stay at any level above ‘dim’?”

  2. davidb
    2/20/2007 at 1:46 pm

    There was no mention of this in what passes for release notes, but I guess there wouldn’t be.

    I didn’t try changing the display settings, so it is possible that this is fixed. However, I doubt it.

  3. Pete
    2/21/2007 at 10:15 am

    Well, we’ll see. I was told that it’s scheduled to be fixed in this release. It’s very weird. The default setting is, I believe, “dim.” If you set it to “normal” or “bright”, it works for about 5 – 10 seconds, then returns to “dim”, even though that’s not what the setting says.

    Guess I’ll have to wait to see when our update arrives. I think it was scheduled to be downloaded this morning, but I haven’t had a chance to check.

  4. davidb
    2/22/2007 at 12:00 am

    Ah. I’d never actually changed the display setting. Or if I did, I got hit by this bug and forgot about it. I’ve tested it with the new release, and, no, it isn’t fixed.

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