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Paid for membership, no access to The Pit...what gives?

I am soooooooooo pissed, the vast majority of the XM channels my family loved are now gone: Fungus - my wife and I are ~40, we are old school punks. Losing this station was like a punch in the nuts, the "Bam Magera" channel is a sad substitute for pikers. Beyond Jazz - Fun progressive Jazz...

Hi All, I need some opinions, on whether my ~18 month old HR20-700 is dying. I have been noticing a strange malfunction lately: Sometimes when recording a show, the DVR seems to freeze the video portion. Usually, the video looks like I hit pause; but the audio keeps going, and this usually...

Hi Folks, My radio reception is terrible, and I want to go with Satellite Radio. This will be for my setup which is networked to several AVRs in my house, so I want a high quality "Reference Grade" receiver with digital outputs for decent sound (not one of those little dashboard units). All...

Hi All, I need to run a USB cable 25'-30' or so. The longest cable I can find is 15', but I do see some 15' extenders too. BUT, some people I have spoken too have said that 15' is the max before you lose significant signal strength. On the other hand some have said this is hogwash. And...

Congratulations San Diego!!! Good Job! That was the biggest upset of the playoffs! I have been rooting for you all season; even when people gave me weird looks, for saying the Chargers were a team to watch. See you next week:cool:.

Hi All, I have the HR20-700, and this weekend I experienced something new to me: Even though I have only one cable running to the DVR, it let me record on 2 different channels. My understanding was that I need 2 cables? For the year+ I have had this DVR it has NEVER let me record a second...

Sorry if I am out of touch on this one, I was in China for a while. Last I checked, the Rock Band bundle for PS2 was due out on Dec 12th. When I got back, the disc is pushed out to the 18th and the "Bundle" is now listed as not available! WTF? Does anyone know if/when the bundle will be stocked?

Amazon is doing some sort of weird sale where they ask people to vote for items they will sell at a huge discount. One round of the voting is for high-def players; both the HD-A35 and the BD-P1400 are being potentially offered at $149, well HD-DVD is getting nearly TWICE the votes. This tells...

Any rumors on a BD launch at Target? I know there were all kinds of press releases saying Target was going to be BD exclusive, and would be launching players on endcaps for the holiday season; however, I haven't heard a peep in months. I want to get an economical BD player to go format...

HELP! My HR20-700 will not power up! Something very weird is going on with HR20-700. I was putting a new component in my HT, and I accidentally unplugged the HR20. When I plugged it back in, it started to fire up but all that happened is the "HD-DVR" splash page came up and the screen went...

Hi All, Sorry if this is a basic rhetorical question, but the search results were too convoluted. My daughter got a “Curtis MP1031” MP3 player a while back for her birthday. She asked me to set it up for her, and I loaded the software onto 2 different PCs; however, neither of them will...

Hi All, Suddenly my HR20-700 is having a strange audio-video sync problem. I am trying to watch a recorded show; but anytime I FF through commericals, the audio track gets WAY out of sync (like 2-3 seconds). If I pause it, and then play, the problem goes away until the next time I FF. I am...

Hi All, I have a DSL line for my PC, and I want to setup my PS3 online for firmware updates. So I have a few questions: (1) My PS3 is in a different room, can I get another DSL "modem" thing and just plug into the other phone jack? (2) If #1 is yes, can I plug multiple components into...

Hi All, Maybe someone here can help me, or direct me to a GPS forum. I just bought a GPS - Magellan Maestro 4000, for my car. Basically the thing works far better than I could ever had imagined. HOWEVER, there is one major flaw: there seems to be no way for me to download addresses (aka...

Hi All, Here is my stupid question of the day (forgive me if this has been beated to death before): Is there any way to program the HR-20 via the web? I know that TiVo can be programmed from the "TV Guide" website (as well as some other services). Being able to program a D* DVR via web...

Hi All, I have had a new HR20 ("700" I think) since about Christmas. Essentially I have been happy with it, other than the loud fan/drive noise (and it generates a crapload of heat). But in the last month or so, the remote control stops working partially. It always seems to happen at about...

Hi All, Just recently got my HR-20, after having a D* TiVO (SD) for 2 years. My house is older and wired with just one CAT cable. I was fine with it, because I rarely need to record 2 programs at once. If i was recording a program while watching (essentially "looping") and say I paused it...

After shelling out $300 to upgrade to D* HD (HR-20 DVR), I am thrilled to find that the major networks (ABC/NBC/CBS) sporadically look like crap. My biggest problem is that any HD content has varying amount of large (maybe 1/4" square) Bright flourescent red pixels dancing about peoples faces...

Hi All, I have a DD 5.1 system, with an Onkyo 75W/Ch reciever and Cambridge SoundWorks Newton speakers. The Onkyo is actually capable of DD 6.1, but for some reason the salesman never offered me a rear channel when I bought it 2 years ago. I never really gave it much thought, because I...

Hi All, So I hear all the ads from the "Tweeter" chain, saying that if people have a HDTV then they should get the Toshiba DVD-HD even just for thier existing old DVD collection. Because "it will make them look better than ever". Do you agree or disagree? and why? (some sort of upconverting...

Hi All, Here is my dumb question of the day: If I upgrade to HD, does it have a different aspect ratio? I have a 42" ED Plasma (Enhanced Definition 420, not HD), so I haven't bothered to upgrade my D* equipment to HD. The thing I would like to improve is the aspect ratio, I want to recieve TV...

I am wondering if I need to upgrade my DVD player? I recently bought a Toshiba Enhanced Definition 42" Plasma. The day I bought it, the salesman said I should upgrade to a high end DVD player with the HDMI output for best picture. I declined at the time, because I have a "top of the line" (2...

Last night I installed the replacement D10-300 reciever they sent me. Everything seems fine, but when I was trying to set the parental password the thing rebooted by itself. Which is made even weirder by the fact that before and after it happened, it was responding that the password was...

My R10 seems to have a mind of it's own. :confused: For some strange reason, some mornings it just starts recording shows that I never programed. I am taking a wild guess that somehow one of my neighbors remote control is reaching my house. I have a neighbor about 150 feet away that also has...