![]() If you let the decoder choose from which network to record a program it will always prefer a Canadian channel if one is available. Even if done under contract by the Ariss/Motorola folks it is relatively obscure that it may not have come up for many people. So I am posting here, in case other members have seen the issue and whether this makes it go away for you tooĪs simsubbing is not a feature outside Canada, I suspect that the code that handles it may have been done in house. ![]() I have been in calls and an online chat but other than repeating all the previous suggestions (plugging directly into the wall socket etc) they seemed disinterested that a consumer may have accidentally found a relationship with reboots and simsubbing on an 830 (at least). Sometimes the next program Jeopardy (NBC Detroit) was simsubbed to "Yes!" (though that simsub seems to have stopped for us). Thinking back, the original issue around 19:00 could also have been related to simsubbing as we would just select Fox Rochester to watch Big Bang Theory, which is now simsubbed to CTV2. After almost a week, we have had zero reboots. Again I changed the recording options, this time so that for each series, we recorded ‘directly’ from one of the main Canadian network stations (mostly Toronto feeds). So we changed our preferences to the US channels specifically and then the simsubbing started, and so did the reboots again! We were up to almost one reboot a day in the evening hours on average. The clearer sound was far more common when we did that. We noticed that if we selected the US channel and it was simsubbed to a Canadian network, the main network feed was used rather than a local channel. The fact they were not ‘local’ was not a major issue, as we tend to skip most advertisements anyway, but it seemed to us (and our Soundbar) that although the decoder was still reporting 5.1 sound, the actual broadcast sound seemed more 'muffled' (like a compressed stereo) that we were hearing most of the time from those channels. However we noticed that non-local channels were getting priority such as CTV Timmins and Global Durham. Our recordings had been set to "HD only" and a change in our package moved us from the Advanced Channel Lineup to the new National Lineup. Recently the frequency jumped to almost one a day, and I have associated it with changes I had made to our recording approach that caused more simsubbing. They got us to go through several steps, unplugging power, disconnecting sat feeds repowering, moving the plug to a wall socket instead of our multi plug and none made a difference, but of course it did seem random. ![]() ![]() Initially we had noticed that it was around 19:00 or 19:30 and we contacted Shaw. Since we switched to an HDPVR 830 we were getting occasional random (we thought) reboots. ![]()
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