Re: [FairfieldLife] The Lost finale 30-second button workout
Didn't work, but I have a different DVR, a DCX3400, which could be why. I just called Comcast and mentioned this hack and the tech person said she knew nothing about it but would research it and call me back. In past calls, Comcast was always pretty much useless about the change to the skip feature. The last person I talked with before today at least knew about how it had changed, but the first person denied it ever had the feature and, believe it or not, even denied Comcast even had the ability to perform a remote update to all their DVRs to reprogram something like that. Some of these techs are pretty useless. It's the backwards one that I wanted restored. I didn't even know there was a forward one until the single knowledgeable tech person mentioned it. Of course, I did mention how a short skip is available with Dish Network and how I wanted to eventually switch to them. Good to know Dish has it, because I do want to switch to them eventually, anyways, for the unlimited DVR storage. My DVR is the latest, with 160 GB of storage. Less reliable than the 80 GB one, though. Love will swallow you, eat you up completely, until there is no `you,' only love. - Amma --- On Tue, 5/25/10, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] The Lost finale 30-second button workout To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, May 25, 2010, 1:47 AM I have Comcast. They sent out info a while back on how to program one of the keys for 30 seconds forward and 15 back. I can't find the mailing but people have posted the info online: http://www.pdxtc.com/wpblog/technology-articles/comcast-remote-30-second-skip-commercials-motorola-dct3412/ I use a Logitech remote instead and programmed the codes into it. gullible fool wrote: Bhairitu, which company provides your TV signal? I have Comcast, which used to have a 30-second skip in both directions, but stupidly changed it to a five-minute skip. I hope to switch to Dish someday. Love will swallow you, eat you up completely, until there is no `you,' only love. - Amma --- On Mon, 5/24/10, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net Subject: [FairfieldLife] The Lost finale 30-second button workout To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, May 24, 2010, 12:17 PM According to one report there were about 45 minutes of commercials during last night's two and a half hour Lost finale. I know the 30-second skip button on the remote got quite a workout as I skipped over commercials on the DVR. I tried to start watching at about 9:45 so the show would still end by 11:30. However even then I noticed that the progress bar was beginning to catch up with last recorded position. For those of you who haven't watched yet then I suggest you wait to read the rest of my post. For those who have I'll continue below. . . . . . . . I sum up the ending as they all died happily ever after. So what's up with these series (as BSG also did) winding up on a religious note? Shall we expect that Jack Bauer will suddenly get religion at the end of tonight's 24 finale? Or is this a conspiracy by the NWO as they attempt to manufacture the apocalypse in time for 2012? I agree with one review is the show could have wound up a little early with Jack saving the island by putting the plug back in. The rest was just a soppy reunion. To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links
Re: [FairfieldLife] The Lost finale 30-second button workout
Google is your friend. Did you try DCX3400 30 second skip as a search term? There are a bunch of articles on it. Apparently you program the remote for the DCX a little differently. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r22649316-DVR-DCX3400-30-Second-Skip-Forward The DCX has an MPEG-4 decoder in it. I would wonder if your OnDemand might look better because they may know it is a DCX and will use an MPEG-4 stream which requires less bandwidth yet be less likely to pixelate. HBO supplies Comcast MP4 streams which Comasts re-encodes to MPEG-2. Treme has a lot of dark and night scenes in it and those re-encodes make darker and harder to see. Most of the Comcast HD DVRs are still the older 3412s and 3416 which can only decode MPEG-2. Dish and DirectTV already use MPEG-4. Eventually Comcast will move to IPTV which works more like the Internet. Instead of sending out a bunch of channels when you select a channel the request goes to a server which switches to that stream. ATT's U-Verse, which is also available in my neighborhood, does this. I would suspect Comcast would still send out the basic channels but everything else would be IPTV. gullible fool wrote: Didn't work, but I have a different DVR, a DCX3400, which could be why. I just called Comcast and mentioned this hack and the tech person said she knew nothing about it but would research it and call me back. In past calls, Comcast was always pretty much useless about the change to the skip feature. The last person I talked with before today at least knew about how it had changed, but the first person denied it ever had the feature and, believe it or not, even denied Comcast even had the ability to perform a remote update to all their DVRs to reprogram something like that. Some of these techs are pretty useless. It's the backwards one that I wanted restored. I didn't even know there was a forward one until the single knowledgeable tech person mentioned it. Of course, I did mention how a short skip is available with Dish Network and how I wanted to eventually switch to them. Good to know Dish has it, because I do want to switch to them eventually, anyways, for the unlimited DVR storage. My DVR is the latest, with 160 GB of storage. Less reliable than the 80 GB one, though. Love will swallow you, eat you up completely, until there is no `you,' only love. - Amma --- On Tue, 5/25/10, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] The Lost finale 30-second button workout To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, May 25, 2010, 1:47 AM I have Comcast. They sent out info a while back on how to program one of the keys for 30 seconds forward and 15 back. I can't find the mailing but people have posted the info online: http://www.pdxtc.com/wpblog/technology-articles/comcast-remote-30-second-skip-commercials-motorola-dct3412/ I use a Logitech remote instead and programmed the codes into it. gullible fool wrote: Bhairitu, which company provides your TV signal? I have Comcast, which used to have a 30-second skip in both directions, but stupidly changed it to a five-minute skip. I hope to switch to Dish someday. Love will swallow you, eat you up completely, until there is no `you,' only love. - Amma --- On Mon, 5/24/10, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net Subject: [FairfieldLife] The Lost finale 30-second button workout To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, May 24, 2010, 12:17 PM According to one report there were about 45 minutes of commercials during last night's two and a half hour Lost finale. I know the 30-second skip button on the remote got quite a workout as I skipped over commercials on the DVR. I tried to start watching at about 9:45 so the show would still end by 11:30. However even then I noticed that the progress bar was beginning to catch up with last recorded position. For those of you who haven't watched yet then I suggest you wait to read the rest of my post. For those who have I'll continue below. . . . . . . . I sum up the ending as they all died happily ever after. So what's up with these series (as BSG also did) winding up on a religious note? Shall we expect that Jack Bauer will suddenly get religion at the end of tonight's 24 finale? Or is this a conspiracy by the NWO as they attempt to manufacture the apocalypse in time for 2012? I agree with one review is the show could have wound up a little early with Jack saving the island by putting the plug back in. The rest was just a soppy reunion. To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links
Re: [FairfieldLife] The Lost finale 30-second button workout
It works!! I don't know why it didn't work last night, since the info you sent in this email for my DVR has the same codes as the info in the link you sent in yesterday's email for the other DVR. Now the LIVE button skips 30 seconds forward and the button two to the left skips backward 15 seconds. Should making watching the next Celtics game much easier. Thanks! Love will swallow you, eat you up completely, until there is no `you,' only love. - Amma --- On Tue, 5/25/10, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] The Lost finale 30-second button workout To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, May 25, 2010, 3:42 PM Google is your friend. Did you try DCX3400 30 second skip as a search term? There are a bunch of articles on it. Apparently you program the remote for the DCX a little differently. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r22649316-DVR-DCX3400-30-Second-Skip-Forward The DCX has an MPEG-4 decoder in it. I would wonder if your OnDemand might look better because they may know it is a DCX and will use an MPEG-4 stream which requires less bandwidth yet be less likely to pixelate. HBO supplies Comcast MP4 streams which Comasts re-encodes to MPEG-2. Treme has a lot of dark and night scenes in it and those re-encodes make darker and harder to see. Most of the Comcast HD DVRs are still the older 3412s and 3416 which can only decode MPEG-2. Dish and DirectTV already use MPEG-4. Eventually Comcast will move to IPTV which works more like the Internet. Instead of sending out a bunch of channels when you select a channel the request goes to a server which switches to that stream. ATT's U-Verse, which is also available in my neighborhood, does this. I would suspect Comcast would still send out the basic channels but everything else would be IPTV. gullible fool wrote: Didn't work, but I have a different DVR, a DCX3400, which could be why. I just called Comcast and mentioned this hack and the tech person said she knew nothing about it but would research it and call me back. In past calls, Comcast was always pretty much useless about the change to the skip feature. The last person I talked with before today at least knew about how it had changed, but the first person denied it ever had the feature and, believe it or not, even denied Comcast even had the ability to perform a remote update to all their DVRs to reprogram something like that. Some of these techs are pretty useless. It's the backwards one that I wanted restored. I didn't even know there was a forward one until the single knowledgeable tech person mentioned it. Of course, I did mention how a short skip is available with Dish Network and how I wanted to eventually switch to them. Good to know Dish has it, because I do want to switch to them eventually, anyways, for the unlimited DVR storage. My DVR is the latest, with 160 GB of storage. Less reliable than the 80 GB one, though. Love will swallow you, eat you up completely, until there is no `you,' only love. - Amma --- On Tue, 5/25/10, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] The Lost finale 30-second button workout To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, May 25, 2010, 1:47 AM I have Comcast. They sent out info a while back on how to program one of the keys for 30 seconds forward and 15 back. I can't find the mailing but people have posted the info online: http://www.pdxtc.com/wpblog/technology-articles/comcast-remote-30-second-skip-commercials-motorola-dct3412/ I use a Logitech remote instead and programmed the codes into it. gullible fool wrote: Bhairitu, which company provides your TV signal? I have Comcast, which used to have a 30-second skip in both directions, but stupidly changed it to a five-minute skip. I hope to switch to Dish someday. Love will swallow you, eat you up completely, until there is no `you,' only love. - Amma --- On Mon, 5/24/10, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net Subject: [FairfieldLife] The Lost finale 30-second button workout To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, May 24, 2010, 12:17 PM According to one report there were about 45 minutes of commercials during last night's two and a half hour Lost finale. I know the 30-second skip button on the remote got quite a workout as I skipped over commercials on the DVR. I tried to start watching at about 9:45 so the show would still end by 11:30. However even then I noticed that the progress bar was beginning to catch up with last recorded position. For those of you who haven't watched yet then I suggest you wait to read the rest of my post. For those who have I'll continue below. . . . . . . . I sum up the ending as they all died happily ever after. So what's up
Re: [FairfieldLife] The Lost finale 30-second button workout
I might also mention that the 30 second skip doesn't work with OnDemand. Only a one level fast forward is allowed there but depending on the source if it is a network show it may only have a brief promo at the beginning and another in the middle. Also be aware if you are recording a program sometimes the DVR will be writing to the hard drive when you press the skip button and it may appear the button isn't working but the skip instead get cued for after the hard drive write. The 15 second back is just part of the remote's original function. Bhairitu wrote: I have Comcast. They sent out info a while back on how to program one of the keys for 30 seconds forward and 15 back. I can't find the mailing but people have posted the info online: http://www.pdxtc.com/wpblog/technology-articles/comcast-remote-30-second-skip-commercials-motorola-dct3412/ I use a Logitech remote instead and programmed the codes into it. gullible fool wrote: Bhairitu, which company provides your TV signal? I have Comcast, which used to have a 30-second skip in both directions, but stupidly changed it to a five-minute skip. I hope to switch to Dish someday. Love will swallow you, eat you up completely, until there is no `you,' only love. - Amma
[FairfieldLife] The Lost finale 30-second button workout
According to one report there were about 45 minutes of commercials during last night's two and a half hour Lost finale. I know the 30-second skip button on the remote got quite a workout as I skipped over commercials on the DVR. I tried to start watching at about 9:45 so the show would still end by 11:30. However even then I noticed that the progress bar was beginning to catch up with last recorded position. For those of you who haven't watched yet then I suggest you wait to read the rest of my post. For those who have I'll continue below. . . . . . . . I sum up the ending as they all died happily ever after. So what's up with these series (as BSG also did) winding up on a religious note? Shall we expect that Jack Bauer will suddenly get religion at the end of tonight's 24 finale? Or is this a conspiracy by the NWO as they attempt to manufacture the apocalypse in time for 2012? I agree with one review is the show could have wound up a little early with Jack saving the island by putting the plug back in. The rest was just a soppy reunion.
Re: [FairfieldLife] The Lost finale 30-second button workout
Bhairitu, which company provides your TV signal? I have Comcast, which used to have a 30-second skip in both directions, but stupidly changed it to a five-minute skip. I hope to switch to Dish someday. Love will swallow you, eat you up completely, until there is no `you,' only love. - Amma --- On Mon, 5/24/10, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net Subject: [FairfieldLife] The Lost finale 30-second button workout To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, May 24, 2010, 12:17 PM According to one report there were about 45 minutes of commercials during last night's two and a half hour Lost finale. I know the 30-second skip button on the remote got quite a workout as I skipped over commercials on the DVR. I tried to start watching at about 9:45 so the show would still end by 11:30. However even then I noticed that the progress bar was beginning to catch up with last recorded position. For those of you who haven't watched yet then I suggest you wait to read the rest of my post. For those who have I'll continue below. . . . . . . . I sum up the ending as they all died happily ever after. So what's up with these series (as BSG also did) winding up on a religious note? Shall we expect that Jack Bauer will suddenly get religion at the end of tonight's 24 finale? Or is this a conspiracy by the NWO as they attempt to manufacture the apocalypse in time for 2012? I agree with one review is the show could have wound up a little early with Jack saving the island by putting the plug back in. The rest was just a soppy reunion. To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links
Re: [FairfieldLife] The Lost finale 30-second button workout
I have Comcast. They sent out info a while back on how to program one of the keys for 30 seconds forward and 15 back. I can't find the mailing but people have posted the info online: http://www.pdxtc.com/wpblog/technology-articles/comcast-remote-30-second-skip-commercials-motorola-dct3412/ I use a Logitech remote instead and programmed the codes into it. gullible fool wrote: Bhairitu, which company provides your TV signal? I have Comcast, which used to have a 30-second skip in both directions, but stupidly changed it to a five-minute skip. I hope to switch to Dish someday. Love will swallow you, eat you up completely, until there is no `you,' only love. - Amma --- On Mon, 5/24/10, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net Subject: [FairfieldLife] The Lost finale 30-second button workout To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, May 24, 2010, 12:17 PM According to one report there were about 45 minutes of commercials during last night's two and a half hour Lost finale. I know the 30-second skip button on the remote got quite a workout as I skipped over commercials on the DVR. I tried to start watching at about 9:45 so the show would still end by 11:30. However even then I noticed that the progress bar was beginning to catch up with last recorded position. For those of you who haven't watched yet then I suggest you wait to read the rest of my post. For those who have I'll continue below. . . . . . . . I sum up the ending as they all died happily ever after. So what's up with these series (as BSG also did) winding up on a religious note? Shall we expect that Jack Bauer will suddenly get religion at the end of tonight's 24 finale? Or is this a conspiracy by the NWO as they attempt to manufacture the apocalypse in time for 2012? I agree with one review is the show could have wound up a little early with Jack saving the island by putting the plug back in. The rest was just a soppy reunion. To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links
