High Def ramblings and questions

[eisforelectronic]

How are you getting your signal from Cable TV or Dish or Au Natural? I take it your PVR is HD. Does you Dish or Cable company supply it? While I'm happy with my Time Wanter DVR I'm still waiting for these people to give me their updated version whoch should allow me to get 5.1 sound & my video copies. These morons, could have programmed the current HD DVR I have Scientific Atlanta HD 8000 but noooooooooooooooooo. All I've been getting from them is the usual Casey Stengle "Who's Your daddy" doubletalk.

Your Time Warner division should have SA HD/DVR 8300's by now. However, only the component out is activated as of now. I think it still lacks the "copy to vcr" feature. Are you sure you can't get DD 5.1 from your 8000? There should be a digital audio setting under "general settings".

[hershon]

Your Time Warner division should have SA HD/DVR 8300's by now. However, only the component out is activated as of now. I think it still lacks the "copy to vcr" feature. Are you sure you can't get DD 5.1 from your 8000? There should be a digital audio setting under "general settings".

I'll call these morons again today. No one knows whether they're coming or going at Time Warner in LA but funny enough the service is overall very good and relatively inexpensive. Apparently for the HD 8000 DVR you still can't get 5.1 sound - try using the digital connection it won't work. These retards insisted the HD8300 will get both 5.1 sound and allow for VCR recording (which the 8000 would do if they bothered to program it). My repeated phone calls to these knuckleheads wielded after insisting the peons put their supervisors on the phone, repeated "the 8300 is not in yet and there's a waiting list" for which I said well can you verify that I'm on the waiting list for which they said, "we can't see the names on the waiting list but we'll enter your name again", ad nauseum. If it wasn't for you in the first place I wouldn't have even known Time Warner had HD DVR's available in the first place. You'd think these clowns would realize that if they informed their customers regularly on technological improvements they'd make more money, but nooooo. It reminds me of Tower Records, a classic business model for the brain impaired if I ever saw one, having huge stores with a large inventory and having one cashier available at the register for the entire store!

[JeffKnob]

I'll call these morons again today. No one knows whether they're coming or going at Time Warner in LA but funny enough the service is overall very good and relatively inexpensive. Apparently for the HD 8000 DVR you still can't get 5.1 sound - try using the digital connection it won't work. These retards insisted the HD8300 will get both 5.1 sound and allow for VCR recording (which the 8000 would do if they bothered to program it). My repeated phone calls to these knuckleheads wielded after insisting the peons put their supervisors on the phone, repeated "the 8300 is not in yet and there's a waiting list" for which I said well can you verify that I'm on the waiting list for which they said, "we can't see the names on the waiting list but we'll enter your name again", ad nauseum. If it wasn't for you in the first place I wouldn't have even known Time Warner had HD DVR's available in the first place. You'd think these clowns would realize that if they informed their customers regularly on technological improvements they'd make more money, but nooooo. It reminds me of Tower Records, a classic business model for the brain impaired if I ever saw one, having huge stores with a large inventory and having one cashier available at the register for the entire store!

I am not sure what is going on in LA but where I live in WI the 8000 nonHD and the 8300HD that I have had both got 5.1 from Time Warner Cable. Only select things have true 5.1 but that's ok. As for the recording to VCR, I still haven't tried it. I think my parents have done it with their 8000 but I will have to check to make sure. I know this doesn't help your situation except maybe you could yell at them and say that a little town in Wisconsin has these features and LA doesn't!?! That just seems silly.