I got an email yesterday from Spectrum announcing a new DVR that allows recording up to 8 shows at the same time with whole house capability for $19.95 a month. This includes up to 4 TVs with 780 hours of recording tme. I got on chat with support and asked for details and after checking for a few minutes was told that my area was one of the first to have availability of this new service. He told me he couldn't help me with adding the service and that I should call the sales department. I called them, at the phone number in email, and they didn't know anything about it. They then transferred me to the tech support people who also hadn't heard of it. Did anyone else get this email? I'm in North East Ohio ex Time Warner area.
It's not an actual 8 or 12 or 32 channel DVR but a simple cloud storage device called Spectrum world box.
It might have a small hd or memory stick in it as a buffer but it's more of an IPTV box using the cloud.
Unknown how long they'll cloud store , weeks? months?
This is right from the email. Maybe they are just trying to simplify the tech for adds.
Record up to 8 shows at once and enjoy over 780 hours of storage. |
All the latest upper tier cable boxes are including a 8 or more channel docsis 3 modem in them for IPTV and streaming. This will also require better signal quality than old cable boxes would tolerate. 780 hours would almost have to be a HD/ cloud storage hybrid, I've heard they used a 32 or 64 gig memory stick as a SSD
The largest hard drive I've seen advertised in anything is only a 1 Tb. that's maybe 100-200 hours of HD quality, 500 of SD....
And yeah, good luck getting any intelligent info from the 3rd world call center...
@MsRaye wrote:All the latest upper tier cable boxes are including a 8 or more channel docsis 3 modem in them for IPTV and streaming. This will also require better signal quality than old cable boxes would tolerate. 780 hours would almost have to be a HD/ cloud storage hybrid, I've heard they used a 32 or 64 gig memory stick as a SSD
The largest hard drive I've seen advertised in anything is only a 1 Tb. that's maybe 100-200 hours of HD quality, 500 of SD....
And yeah, good luck getting any intelligent info from the 3rd world call center...
The Cisco/Technicolor World Box that I have read about has four tuners. This must be a newer model. Legacy TWC/BHN DVR's have up to six-tuners.
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@MsRaye wrote:All the latest upper tier cable boxes are including a 8 or more channel docsis 3 modem in them for IPTV and streaming. This will also require better signal quality than old cable boxes would tolerate. 780 hours would almost have to be a HD/ cloud storage hybrid, I've heard they used a 32 or 64 gig memory stick as a SSD
The largest hard drive I've seen advertised in anything is only a 1 Tb. that's maybe 100-200 hours of HD quality, 500 of SD....
And yeah, good luck getting any intelligent info from the 3rd world call center...
It would make sense that this is the WorldDVR 2.0 that I've read about. They did some sort of newotk update here a few weeks ago which could have been in preperation for this. Now I just have to find someone who knows what's going on. I guess I'll wait a few days and call again. I can't be the only person who got this offer, so they must be getting other calls. If they get enough calls maybe someone will look into it.
Actually it could very well be a signal level issue, the old stuff was QAM 16.64 the new is qam 256 which requires 6 dB better signal levels.
Copy and paste the modems signal level page and where it is splitter wise to the cable box/ dvr.
In many cases even a 4 way splitter won't work, old 10-400 mHz splitters won't work and all cable must be rg 6 not rg 59. Outside overhead line that's over 10 years old is suspect as well
on the DVR, hold in the select button for 10 seconds then hit the up arrow... what is the IB and OOB frequency and level?
@MsRaye wrote:Actually it could very well be a signal level issue, the old stuff was QAM 16.64 the new is qam 256 which requires 6 dB better signal levels.
Copy and paste the modems signal level page and where it is splitter wise to the cable box/ dvr.
In many cases even a 4 way splitter won't work, old 10-400 mHz splitters won't work and all cable must be rg 6 not rg 59. Outside overhead line that's over 10 years old is suspect as well
on the DVR, hold in the select button for 10 seconds then hit the up arrow... what is the IB and OOB frequency and level?
I see a big future in Home A/V specialists who will need to re-wire homes for the 21st Century... and it will only get worse once spectrum (no pun intended) that was once used for TV and Cable is allocated to the cell phone companies.
If this allows whole house viewing, that will indeed get interesting as it will require MOCA or cat 5 interconnection as well as collisions between Smart TV IPTV aps like Netflix/ Youtube and whatever AP Spectrum will have to use, I'll bet DLNA...
It's going to require an intelligent dual wan routing setup, one from Spectrum' Intranet and the other from whatever ISP does the real internet connection to work on those tv's if they are boxless...
And yes, I deal with AV upgrade nightmares...