On Thursday, August 24, 2017 at 7:50:20 PM UTC-4, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Fri, 25 Aug 2017 00:40:41 +0100, wrote:

On Fri, 25 Aug 2017 00:08:06 +0100, "James Wilkinson Sword"
wrote:

On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 23:59:46 +0100, wrote:

On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 23:46:07 +0100, "James Wilkinson Sword"
wrote:

At the time of the change. I had a DVR that connected every night by
phone. It took awhile to figure out why it stopped connecting.

Why the **** would you want your DVR to use the phone line?

If you don't have broadband, that is how you get your program guide.

Er no. It comes through the same signal as your TV programs. Satellite or aerial. What kind of antiquated **** do you have over there? In the UK we even had it through satellite in the early 90s, before digital was invented!

There is a program guide channel but it is not stored and accessible
to the DVR timer. There were simply too many formats for the
manufactures to support that.
It is clear you never had an unbundled DVR like the replay, which
predated the ones you get from cable/sat companies for over a decade,
The replay was really the best but it was so good it got sued out of
existence. There were things like automatic commercial skip and
internet show sharing that really ****ed of the broadcasters.

Your country is a piece of ****. In the UK, Sky TV has an EPG through the satellite. Freeview/Freesat has it through the aerial/satellite. The only reason for connecting through the phoneline is to upload viewing data, which sensible people prevent, as it's spying on us.

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Why was the guitar teacher arrested?
For fingering A minor.

That may be true for your situation, but it's not true for DVRs in general.
The DVRs supplied by independent companies, eg Tivo, have required either
phone line or internet connection for decades. That is how they download
the program scheduling info that makes them usable. If you have eqpt that
comes from the cable company or sat company, then they use their own link,
which they control, to download it. I could get a DVR from the cable
company, it's $13 a month and a piece of crap compared to the Tivo.
With Tivo, after a few years, I'm $13 a month ahead every month.