Plugged it back in the morning. The screen said boot, then some scrambled letters, then blank, then back to boot, then back to the scrambled letters, and on and on for hours.
I heard some clicking sounds so apparently the hard drive crashed.
Called Oceanic and the call center girl went to their standard trouble-shooting (which is unplug and plug back in, send an activation signal, send a signal to turn off) which predictably didn't work.
OK time to turn in the DVR. Actually I hadn't been using it that much as I've been watching more Netflix and Hulu. Though I hooked up the cable box if there was a basketball game in HD that I wanted to watch. But once we got to the NBA finals, the games were shown on ABC, so I just bypassed the cable box and plugged the cable directly into the TV.
The main reason I was keeping the DVR was that I had some old sports games on it. Most notably the Linsanity vs. Dallas game. And the 2012 "Dream Team" Olympic game. Also some old UH volleyball replays. And some What Color Is Your Dog? episodes (which I had transferred to DVD). The main one was the Linsanity game which I wanted to record in HD somehow, but hadn't figured out the best way to do it. Probably with a Hauppage PVR.
Unfortunately they said there's no way to transfer the videos out of the DVR, especially now that it crashed. So I guess I don't have to worry about that now.
So this gave me the opportunity to cut the cable. But I kind of like the idea of watching the network channels in HD especially for live sports. And also the UH Sports Channel. So I figure I'll switch to Basic cable which is supposed to give you only the local channels, but I know a couple others with Basic cable who have a lot more than the local channels. So hopefully I'll get the others too, like CNBC and OCSports. The TV guy is supposed to come today to filter out the other channels, so I want to see how much they filter out.
So let's see what I get now, then see what he filters out. Here's what I have currently, by plugging in the cable directly into my TV. And while I'm at it, let me rescan them. 63 analog channels, 56 digital channels
Here's the lineup (updated 3/27/15)
2 QVC
3 KHON
4 KBFD
5 KFVE
6 KITV
7 KGMB
8 KHNL
9 KIKU
10 KHET
11 KWHE
12 OC16
13 HLN
14 CNN
15 Fox News
16 OCSports
17 MTV
18 - VH1
19 NBCSN
20 - FSW
21 ESPN2
22 ESPN
23 TWCSports
25 KALO
26 KAAH
27 KPXO
28 TBS
29 USA
30 Golf
31 Prime Ticket
32 Nick
33 Disney
34 ABC Family
35 CN
36 TVland
37 Syfy
38 MSNBC
39 Spike
40 Bravo
41 FX
42 AMC
43 TNT
44 TCM
46-1 KPXO-HD (ion) [see below, formerly 66-1]
46-3 KHON-HD
46-55 TEC 355 (currently UWtv, also on 78-30)
47-1 MeTV
47-2 this
47-3 KHON-SD
47-4 CSPAN
47-5 KFVE-SD
47-7 KGMB-SD
47-8 KHNL-SD
47-10 KHET-SD
47-25 KALO
47-27 KPXO
48-1 KGMB-HD
48-9 KITV-HD
49-1 KFVE-HD
49-3 KHNL-HD
49-12 KHET-HD
50-6 KUPU
50-7 CW-HD
51-1 OCSports HD [see below]
51-3 CNBC-HD [see below]
53 Olelo 53
54 Olelo
55 Olelo 55
56 Zap 2 it
57 HSN
58 travel
59 HGTV
60 food
61 E!
62 Comedy Central
63 Hallmark
64 LMN
65 Discover Life
66-63 QVC
66-64 OC16 (also on 79-16)
67 OWN
68 LIFE
69 Discovery
70 Animal Planet
71 TLC
72 History
73 - NGC
74 A&E
76-6 C-SPAN3
76-10 HSN
76-49 Olelo 49
78-21 KBS WORLD
78-29 Civil Defense
78-30 UWtv (also on 46-55)
79-1 PBS Kids
79-10 On Demand trailers
79-16 OC16 (also on 66-64)
98-1 OCSports
99-16 OC16 HD
115-3 KBFD HD (!)
134-8 C-SPAN2
134-13 Antenna
134-14 KWHE
134-26 TBN
134-49 olelo 49
134-53 olelo 53
134-54 olelo54
134-55 olelo55
[so a few more digital channels than the "official list"]
Channels 102-2 through 132-2 are probably temporary and will fade away.
[6/27/15] Checking again the next day:
gone are
104-2 tbs
106-4 Hallmark
131-1 arirang
131-2 ntdtv.com
Changed
120-2 AMC from TCM
102-4 OC16
Still waiting for the Oceanic guy to come and take away my ESPN and other channels
[6/28/15]
120-2 changed from AMC to Nat Geo TV
102-5 Hallmark has been added
132-2 syfy is gone
[that afternoon]
102-1 CNBC changed from 102.2
102-4 Hallmark changed from 102.5
120-2 Nat Geo is now gone
[7/11/15]
66-1 KPXO-HD has disappeared (which is odd because it's been on over a year)
still getting ESPN, etc. / I'm wondering what my next bill will be
let me rescan:
compare my last scan
gone
66-1 KPXO-HD (ion)
102-1 CNBC *
102-4 Hallmark *
(102-1 and 102-4 were likely gone before today)
added
103-5 Animal Planet (gone seventh, in the afternoon)
105-1 insp (gone the next evening, only TCM now left)
105-4 msnbc (gone third)
106-2 arirang (gone fourth)
110-1 A&E (gone late evening)
110-2 syfy (gone minutes later)
118-1 ntdtv (gone sixth)
119-2 Hallmark (gone fifth)
121-4 National Geographic (gone minutes later)
126-2 TCM
manually going to 102 gets
102-3 SURF (now gone)
the added channels will likely be gone soon enough
now 110-2 syfy is already gone
and 110-4 tbs is added
121-4 Nat Geo is gone too
105-4 msnbc is gone
[7/12/15 a.m.] all the added channels are now gone except for 105-1 insp and 126-2 TCM.
[7/17/15] 66-1 KPXO HD is back
[8/14/15] OCSports HD (51-1), CNBC HD (51-3), Prime Ticket (66-1), LMN (66-2) are now scrambled :( Hopefully they'll come back. They're listed on the "official list" as linked above.
[8/15/15] OCSports and CNBC are back. (Whew.) Prime Ticket and LMN are still scrambled, but no biggie.
*** [6/27/15]
I'm wondering how much they'll take away from my TWC app.
Let me check what I'm getting now on my iPad
Live:
AlJazeera
BBC HD
beIN n Sports
beIN Sports
COOKING HD
DIY HD
EL RAY
FOOD
FOX Sports
FOX Sports 2
FXM
FX HD
FXX HD
HGTV
HSN HD
natgeo
NatGeo Wild
QVC
QVC PLUS
REVOLT
There's a bunch of other channels you could catch if you were hooked directly to your Oceanic cable network, including TBS and TNT (don't know if they work if you hooked up via wifi).
These are the On Demand channels currently available on my account
A&E
AlJazeera
AMC
BBC America
BET
BeIN n Sports
CMT
Comedy Central
COOKING
diy
E!
El Rey
Esquire
Food
FOX
FOX Sports 1
FX
FXM
FXX
fyi
GSN
H2
Hallmark
HGTV
History
IFC
Lifetime
LMN
Logo
MTV
MTV 2
National Geographic
Nat Geo Wild
Nick
Nick Jr.
REVOLT
Smithsonian
Spike
Sundance
Teen Nick
Travel
TV Land
VH-1
VH-1 Classic
WE
*** [7/18/15]
Checking my cable bill, still got charged $114.25.
I turned in my cable box on 6/25, but the bill is dated with a statement date of 6/20/15 with date due 7/17/15. But the monthly charge is for dates Jul 16 to Aug 15.
I shall assume that this will be adjusted in the next bill since apparently this bill was generated before I cut my service. The next bill should be generated in a few days and I can check to see any adjustments were made.
[8/14/15] Yep, my Oceanic bill is now listed as negative. Evidently there's a lag between payments and the service. They charge you in advance so my bill was already generated before I cancelled.
[2/26/16] most of the TWC On Demand channels (on my ipad) are inaccessible are gone from my basic account (as noted here). I'm only getting Fox now.
[3/27/16] KPXO HD is now 46-1, formerly 66-1.
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