Comments on: I Fixed the Chanel Switching on my Comcast Cable Box http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/12/02/i-fixed-the-chanel-switching-on-my-comcast-cable-box/ Utterly random, incoherent and disjointed rants and ramblings... Sat, 10 Jan 2009 02:13:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Muhammad http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/12/02/i-fixed-the-chanel-switching-on-my-comcast-cable-box/#comment-7236 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:57:26 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/12/02/i-fixed-the-chanel-switching-on-my-comcast-cable-box/#comment-7236 Err, I'm waaaayy on the other side of the world (in Singapore if u wanna be exact, see the flag? :D ), so no Comcast there. My cable company is <a href="http://www.starhub.com.sg" rel="nofollow">StarHub</a>. Previously I was using their analog cable box. No "OK" button to be found on their remote. But when I switched to the digital set-top box, "OK" seems to be the "left-click" of the remote. :P Probably all digital cable users face this need-to-press-addition-OK-button issue? Err, I’m waaaayy on the other side of the world (in Singapore if u wanna be exact, see the flag? D ), so no Comcast there. My cable company is StarHub.

Previously I was using their analog cable box. No “OK” button to be found on their remote. But when I switched to the digital set-top box, “OK” seems to be the “left-click” of the remote. P

Probably all digital cable users face this need-to-press-addition-OK-button issue?

]]> by: Luke Maciak http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/12/02/i-fixed-the-chanel-switching-on-my-comcast-cable-box/#comment-7221 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:06:26 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/12/02/i-fixed-the-chanel-switching-on-my-comcast-cable-box/#comment-7221 <strong>@Teague</strong> - shhh. I'm doing subliminal advertising. ;) <strong>@Muhammad</strong> - oh wow, so you are telling me that there is another cable company that is doing this auto-tune thing? Or do you also have Comcast? @Teague - shhh. I’m doing subliminal advertising. )

@Muhammad - oh wow, so you are telling me that there is another cable company that is doing this auto-tune thing? Or do you also have Comcast?

]]> by: Teague http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/12/02/i-fixed-the-chanel-switching-on-my-comcast-cable-box/#comment-7217 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 12:48:12 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/12/02/i-fixed-the-chanel-switching-on-my-comcast-cable-box/#comment-7217 What does perfume have to do with cable boxes? ;) What does perfume have to do with cable boxes? )

]]> by: Muhammad http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/12/02/i-fixed-the-chanel-switching-on-my-comcast-cable-box/#comment-7210 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 02:27:32 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/12/02/i-fixed-the-chanel-switching-on-my-comcast-cable-box/#comment-7210 Hey nice find! I've recently switched to a digital set-top box for my cable TV too, since my mum wanted to subscribe to a channel but it was only available on the digital tier. :P And yes, the OK button is quite a pain too in the beginning (but the idea is slowly sinking into my other non-geeky family members). I guess I'll be looking for "Auto-Tune" buried somewhere in the settings. Thanks for the tip! Hey nice find! I’ve recently switched to a digital set-top box for my cable TV too, since my mum wanted to subscribe to a channel but it was only available on the digital tier. P And yes, the OK button is quite a pain too in the beginning (but the idea is slowly sinking into my other non-geeky family members).

I guess I’ll be looking for “Auto-Tune” buried somewhere in the settings. Thanks for the tip!

]]> by: Matt` http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/12/02/i-fixed-the-chanel-switching-on-my-comcast-cable-box/#comment-7209 Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:45:50 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/12/02/i-fixed-the-chanel-switching-on-my-comcast-cable-box/#comment-7209 I got the analogy :P I also agree that having that implemented, but turned off by default is about as stupid as it comes. I'm trying to think of a reasonably geeky analogy for how stupid it is, but nothing quite feels right. (Having rm -rf as a cron job or running Windows without an antivirus or any patches would be pretty damn stupid, but either of those would feel like I was exaggerating the dumb-level - they're just too stupid to be a proper analogy) I got the analogy P

I also agree that having that implemented, but turned off by default is about as stupid as it comes. I’m trying to think of a reasonably geeky analogy for how stupid it is, but nothing quite feels right.

(Having rm -rf as a cron job or running Windows without an antivirus or any patches would be pretty damn stupid, but either of those would feel like I was exaggerating the dumb-level - they’re just too stupid to be a proper analogy)

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