Originally Posted by Greystone

Appreciate all the comments. Today the "Senior" Time Warner tech guy for my town showed up. He even called up the "Senior" signals guy to come out and test some signals stuff. Turns out I am on the very end of the cable signals drop for my street, which should not be an issue, since the previous visit by their tech guys resulted in the installation of an amplifier to make my QAM DbmV readings well within acceptable ranges.

So this Senior Tech guy, who sounded very knowledgeable and looked the part, watches my recording of an NCIS Los Angeles program from last week-- which looks like it was recorded by a meth addict with ADS-- and the guy announces that it's probably an issue of "connections."

Ok. I spent 22 years flying airplanes in the USAF and I understand that sometimes the avionics in aircraft can get affected by faulty connections. Maybe he's right. But intellectually I am struggling with the notion that my RoadRunner internet has worked just fine for twelve years and that my neighbor's HD service works just fine and that my Sunday Night Football recordings look like they were done with a 10-year-old cellphone on low batteries by a crack head. He tightened all my connections and now I wait to see the results.

At the end of the day, the Senior tech sez he is going to try to find me an 8300HD to swap out with my 8240 HDC. The newer Scientific Atlanta box (8240) apparently has "issues." YGBSM!!! This is really what's going on here??? TWC cannot figure out that it's newer Scientific Atlanta DVR's have issues??

It's a good thing I am not a TV addict or I would be checking into the Betty Ford Clinic right now to wean myself away from the tube forever. You go out and spend a couple of $k on a nice big flat screen HDTV so you can watch Tiger Woods drop a 30-foot putt on Sunday, and all you get are sputters and spurts and and hiccups from Time Warner's cable box. Sheesh. Think I'll take up knitting.