[Barnes]

Originally Posted by theonlywhiteout

The freezing can be any number of issues, and from what I understand from some experienced shaw techs they have no idea where in the network the black screen and noise anomolys are coming from.

I hate to think that the experienced Shaw techs you have talked with have not read Rovi's known issues list cause it says it right there. There are huge HDMI handshake issues. My DCT PVR upstairs has real problems on my Visio TV (because it's cheap probably due to a poor HDCP implementation and magnifies the issue) but I didn't have huge problems on my Aquos asid from the occasional dropout.

I-Guide A28

-Intermittent blank-screen dropouts when using HDMI

-Longer HDMI handshake on TV power-up

-Occasional blank channel after HDMI handshake (guide works, but no channel audio/video until channel changed, then changed back)

-Occasional channel info pops up on the hour, sometimes not even for the current channel (possibly info from other tuner?)

-Favorites list resets at the top of the channel list when exiting info screens.

-If you are tuned to an SD channel that has an HD version available, a popup will appear for several seconds when a new HD program starts, even if you are actually watching an unrelated recording.

-When starting to play a recording, or after stopping playback, the audio may be muted. (Pause, then Play, will usually restore audio.)

-Sometimes after a tuner swap, or stopping a recording playback, the audio and video will continuously cycle on and off.

-VCR-style manual recordings (channel, start-time, end-time) that are set to repeat weekly will not record past midnight.

Also, 1080p as for home tv is a long way away. THe bandwidth requirements are high and I don't see telus/shaw/bell/rogers in any hurry to increase the bandwidth per station.

Which is what I said. The Moto box is capable where as the Cisco box is not. The Moto box has a faster processor i.e. Shaw's Moto STBs don't suck, Rovi sucks.

The problem is that these kinds of fixes and releases aren't just a couple months of coding, it's a huge ground up network change. Shaw has proven themselves to be a dinosaur in upgrading their tech, am I to believe now all out of the blue they're going to be the cutting edge in tv service?

Again, it is firmware, middleware and software. Shaw has a few choices that will work with their current network infrastructure and STBs. Implementation and testing could have started awhile ago, who knows. This information came from Shaw's own Q1 '11 results conference call.

Frankly, on a side note, I'd rather cancel all my TV and just get 35~ stations of high def thru another source. All I watch, really, are hte major networks, TSN, sportsnet and SN1, and hte occasion showcase/a&e. For the pleasure of watching 10 stations in high def I get to pay shaw 75 bucks (classic cable 60 bucks or so +15 for all high def), or, wow, imagine the coincidence, telus 75 bucks (your pick HD with all the hd included) . It's as if there's some type of price fixing in place!

I agree.