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November 18, 2004

4-digit Digital Cable Box

My Scientific Atlantic Digital cable box has been improving its channel changing speed, but recently increased to a fourth digit.  When TiVo changes its channel, it only inputs 3 digits.  Therefore, there's about a 10 second pause between punching in channels on the TiVo remote, and the channel actual changing on the TV.  I've tried all the available SA box codes in the TiVo, but none of them (yet) emit 4 digits.
-- dan

November 18, 2004 in Scientific Atlanta

Answers

Check this list to see if there is something you haven't tried: http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=128743

If the problem persists I recommend reporting it to TiVo support and/or posting it in the TiVo Help Forums - http://forums.tivo.com/

Posted by: MegaZone at Nov 19, 2004 5:47:11 PM

will a cable box work if I BUY IT OFF ebay. Im renting two cable boxes a month from my cable company, and they dont sell cable boxes. I dont no if I will have to modify the box or something to get it to work...If so how do I do that.

Thanks
John

if you can help plese email me at Bob77364@aol.com

Posted by: bob at Sep 27, 2005 5:49:19 AM

Bob, be very careful about buying a set top box. Scientific Atlanta does not sell their boxes. SA codes the box to work only in the market sent to. That is a box originally sent to Time Warner Austin will not work in Dallas, Miami or any other market. I know, I bought a box (SA Explorer 8000) from Ebay and when I tried to get Time Warner to activate it, they said they could not and it was the property of another cable company. The Teche at Time Warner went on to say that even if it was shown not to be stolen they could not change or modify the codec firmware that was set up in the box at the factory. I contacted techs at SA and this was confirmed. He also said that they would not reconfigure the codec for use with my cable provider under any circumstances.

Posted by: David B at Dec 9, 2005 3:38:57 PM

When are they comming out with a digital black box???

Posted by: Tony at Mar 16, 2006 4:28:19 AM

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