Scientific Atlanta PVR crashes due to leap year

Joe Clark, an expert on captioning and accessibility issues, recently got a new Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8000 PVR for his Rogers Cable system in Canada. He's been keeping track of it on his accessibility blog and recently found that the box crashed and lost information a week before Feb 29th, this year's leap day. Slashdot noticed as well and it seems to be a date bug in the box's software, similar to a y2k bug.

Comments

[Cheapbastard]

Just when we thought those pesky date problems were over! I didn't know Canadians had cable.. :)

[Ruidh]

Is that what happened? It sure was working Sunday evening. I watched Joan Rivers cover the red carpet in High Def. (Now that was pretty scary.) I had to remove the access card and reinsert it on 3/1.

[marcus]

I just got the new Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8000 PVR for his Rogers Cable system in Canada.

I like it but you can not get I can not git the videos off the new Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8000 PVR for his Rogers Cable system in Canada.

We all konw that it has two IEEE and one usb and a card reader and an 80GB maxdrer hard-drive that is, ? not farmatied too an konw fromat that windows can read or an konw O.S. out that.

E-mail me at marcus_cole_2@hotmail.com

but like i sayed i like the new Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8000 PVR for his Rogers Cable system in Canada. but i like too get the video off the unit in a digat format like some of the other PVR's out there dos any one know how to do this with the new Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8000 PVR for his Rogers Cable system in Canada.

[mike]

hi sorry for not giting back to you, but i have bin working
but i have open-up the explorer 8000! it has a 80gb harddive (whit a unkonw formate) but you konw that! roger say that ther will be a bois-up to let all of us off load info from it, but you konw what will we be like we will not have a say i bet.

the roger exploer 8000 has a fcc code on in so if you, i or some one elese goes to the web we mint find something about the motherbored and bois.

but i'm think if you can add a new harddiver with a fat32 bit formate and see if we can still recored on it , if so we can read a fat 32 bit fromat in a windows systam. "but do not use the exploer 8000 hardiver if you are going to try it" this is just a idea on how to off load info.

but if you have an idea e-mail me back

at marcus_cole_2@hotmail.com

[mike]

hi sorry for not giting back to you, but i have bin working
but i have open-up the explorer 8000! it has a 80gb harddive (whit a unkonw formate) but you konw that! roger say that ther will be a bois-up to let all of us off load info from it, but you konw what will we be like we will not have a say i bet.

the roger exploer 8000 has a fcc code on in so if you, i or some one elese goes to the web we mint find something about the motherbored and bois.

but i'm think if you can add a new harddiver with a fat32 bit formate and see if we can still recored on it , if so we can read a fat 32 bit fromat in a windows systam. "but do not use the exploer 8000 hardiver if you are going to try it" this is just a idea on how to off load info.

but if you have an idea e-mail me back

at marcus_cole_2@hotmail.com

[B. Innes]

i am looking for a DVD player that will fit in a 15" wide space in my
shelving unit. is there such a thing?

[Rick]

A Tivo this ain't. It is seriously lacking as compared to real PVR's First off there is no search function you have to look through the program guide to find the show you want. You can't specify if you want to record only new episodes. It can't tell if it recording duplicate shows so you might end up with multiple copies of the same show. When you look over the shows in the show list it only gives the title of the show not the episode name or details so it makes it very hard to find the dups to erase.

recording two channels at once is cool. Picture quality is great but all in all I would rather be able to use a Tivo or snapstream.com beyond TV

[dero]

does anyone know if the 8000 wil record from another video/audio source like a camcorder? thanks

[Jrousson]

Hi Everyone, you all seem much more technical than I am. I'm just about to purchase a Scientifc Atlantic Explorer 8000 from a friend and from all the comments above I'm assuming it's compatible with the Rogers Cable Canada network. Is this true. Can Rogers refuse to provide the service if you bought your own pvr system?

Thank you,
J

[Brian]

can anyone tell me the codes for the codes for the explorer 8000

[mic]

you can select a letter to search through the guide by..

A-Browse By, Title, LEFT, choose letter, press up or down to scroll though alphabetical listing.

[homes]

more strange stuff

[Rob]

Bought a SA8000 from a guy in TX. Rogers is having trouble setting it up. Anyone know of this problem and know a fix? They say their system won't recognize the serial number. HELP PLEASE!!!!

[Christine]

If I buy a Scientific Atlanta digital cable PVR from eBay, will it work with Rogers cable in Canada?