Hi all,
Wife and I were watching "Fringe" last night...recorded on our Scientific Explorer 8300HD DVR...and right in the middle of the show the picture goes black and the stb shows a ER-01 error message over and over. Aargh ! I unplug the stb and try to reboot several times to no avail...ER-01 over and over.
I call Comcast and they say "ooh that is the death message you are screwed"...paraphrasing hehehe.
My wife is fuming because she has lost 6 episodes of Medium and Lost, her favorite shows. I tell her I warned her to watch them "in case"...probably ought not to have mentioned that lol as she "side eyes" me with dagger looks...glad I leave for work in an hour hehehe.
Two options: One return the stb tomorrow for another or we can send a tech over on "Sunday"...Sunday I says NO WAY ! I head over to my local branch today at 9AM...after working the overnight shift, woohoo what fun...A very nice lady gives me a brand new 8300HD"C" which has the higher hdmi, 1.1 to 1.3, and will accept a sata external hard drive to increase storage space...very cool though I don't have an external sata hdd...YET lol...
Bring home the new stb and have it connected in a minute or two. Spend the next 30 minutes setting it up and re-entering all my "favorite" channels. All is well except it won't initialize some of the HD channels...HGTV and a few others, hmmm odd. I call Comcast and after trying to reboot it on their end am told it seems to be a signal problem at the line and they will send a tech over on Monday. Again I say NO WAY ! The woman connects me to her supervisor who tells me they will send a tech over tomorrow between noon and 5pm...much better.
Ah well...a lesson to be learned...don't let the shows, movies accumulate because you never know when a catastrophic failure may occur and really screw the pooch.
LOL just a mild rant but I did get a newer stb and upgrades are always cool.
