- #Verizon no signal on tv software#
- #Verizon no signal on tv professional#
- #Verizon no signal on tv tv#
I'll be watching the version numbers closely to see when upgrades happen.Īs of this writing my Comcast 6416-P2 is on Verizon's Release 1.0.4 Build 05.68. I hope they are more progressive than Comcast has been. I suppose it comes down to how far Verizon wants to push the envelope. It'd be nice if they did a calendar as well.
#Verizon no signal on tv software#
Currently the software includes Traffic and Weather, and Notes is coming soon so you'll be able to leave notes for family members. There's also a few "in progress" features like Widgets, that run on the DVR. You can select new shows only, or all shows including repeats. As with most DVRs you can set each recording to be "protected" (not automatically deleted) or to stick around in a queue with the last x recordings.
#Verizon no signal on tv tv#
The DVR will hold about 17 hours of HD or 60 hours of SD TV (Standard Defintion) or whatever mix of both you can manage. Hitting info once gives you a small popup, hitting it again takes you to a full-screen info page.
Hitting Guide once takes you to a full-screen guide, pressing twice goes to split-screen. For example, up takes you to a TV Guide split-screen with TV on the left, down takes you to a half-screen floating guide. For example, when watching TV, selecting up, down, left, or right on the direction button will take you (as a shortcut) to different modes instantly. The interface is very intuitive, but also includes a number of advanced shortcuts that you'll stumble on in the using. It's got high-color (24bit?) graphics, very polished and curvy, a distinct contrast to the low-color blocky Comcast software. it is slow, buggy, and has a dozen subtle and horrible bugs that are well documented around the net.įortunately the software included with the Verizon box is completly different, written from scratch and it's a joy. I hate it with the heat of a thousand suns. Just to make myself totally understood here, there is no way I could assemble a sentence, much less a paragraph, using the English Language to express the utter magical poopiness of the Comcast DVR Software. Verizon uses the Motorola QIP6416 set-top box, that looks exactly like the craptastic Comcast DCT6412, but runs a TOTALLY different UI. There is an optional Media DVR option that will let you watch pictures and share video between the DVRs using the router and TCP/IP for transport, but I decided against that option since my XBoxen already do that fine. From there the router speaks TCP/IP over RJ-45 and supplies the house, but it also can hand out IP addresses over Coax to the DVR (Digital Video Recorders) that you'll receive with the FIOS TV Package. So, the coax comes in from the outside then splits and heads into all the rooms in the house, with one of the downstream cables going into the Verizon Internet Router's Coax connector. He used my existing Coax spliter and split the wire before the router. Since I had Verizon FIOS Internet already, hooking up the TV was easy for the installer. He had a certain level that we couldn't certify below, so make sure you ask your installer if the signal is sufficient for a glitch-free installation. He said that this speaks to good wiring and a good splitter.
#Verizon no signal on tv professional#
My installer was very happy with the professional splitter I'd preinstalled in my wiring closet, saying that he wasn't able to measure that any signal was lost at all. The installer should do a signal test to check for loss over long runs and through splitters.
In the last six months, however, Verizon has started using routers that include a Coax connector such that the FIOS signal(s) can run over 75OHM Coax cable, switching from Fiber to Coax at the ONT - using the cable you likely already have running through your house into each room. If you have basic needs, often Verizon will just put a wireless router in your garage and call it done, giving you wireless Internet access as far as that router reaches. This device is the bridge between the fiber optic cable that comes right up to your house but not inside and whatever wiring you have in your house. There is an ONT (Optical Network Terminal) (here's a network diagram) that is a installed on the outside of your house. We already had FIOS internet, with 15 megabits downstream and upstream (a premium service that costs an extra $10 a month) and have been very happy with it. There's a long waiting list in my state, so I signed up in October and had it installed just this last week. We are finally out from under Comcast Cable and have just hooked up Verizon's new Fiber-Optic based FIOS TV.
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