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I have an 8800 w/jp1 should I get an 8910?
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Post 1 made on Tuesday January 7, 2003 at 14:34
sammee2
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I have an 8800 and while trying to upgrade for a Panasonic Combo code, I soon learned (with help)that it wouldn't allow more than a 50 byte upgrade. This effectively eliminates the upgrade and what I'm wondering is there a workaround? I had to use a dozen keymoves in order to get it completely functional as it is. Is there an extender or some other "trick"
available and would this help? Would an 8910 have this same limitation? I am thinking of buying this thru BlueDO Any suggestions?



This message was edited by sammee2 on 01/07/03 14:40.
Post 2 made on Tuesday January 7, 2003 at 15:00
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I half answered this question in the JP1 group. It wasn't helpful for you to post it again here.

I don't know anyone other than Jason (gjarboni) who is likely to know all the answers to your 8800 questions. I don't think I've seen his posts here at all, and I don't think he looks at JP1 frequently enough to have seen your post yet.
OP | Post 3 made on Tuesday January 7, 2003 at 15:05
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Sory for the double posting. I wasn't sure if it was a solid JP1 question or more general in nature. There's a new guideline posting at JP1 and I didn't want to do anything considered wrong.
Post 4 made on Tuesday January 7, 2003 at 15:58
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We've ASKED that non-JP-1 questions NOT be posted at JP-1. To be fair, we also asked that JP-1 questions not be posted here. You've got a JP-1 remote, and cable and ran into a JP-1 limitation, therefore your post is certainly JP-1 related. The error here was double posting (touching all bases?) Any further clarification about this should be directed to Jason at JP-1, as John suggested. I've never seen (recognized) that he frequents this site, so it's likely in vain to direct something to him here rather than at JP-1. Fact is, I think he seldom frequents JP-1 so you may actually be better to try and email him direct, if that's possible. good luck, fwiw, I think you have a good shot with one of his extenders.
Jim
Post 5 made on Tuesday January 7, 2003 at 17:13
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On 01/07/03 15:58, jamesgammel said...
so you may actually be
better to try and email him direct,

I think that's a bad suggestion. (In this case, Jason already answered this thread). To the best of my (LIMITED) knowledge, Jason is the guru of this particular topic, BUT Hal or Rob or a dozen other people whose expertise in this topic I failed to observe might give good answers (especially to the non extender parts of the question).

Asking by email has two flaws:
1) You miss out on the chance that someone else who also knows the answer would get to it sooner than the "guru".
2) You're making the guru answer by email, so others who have the same question after you don't get to find it in the message archives.

As the "guru" of some of the other sub topics here, I'd prefer not to get JP1 questions by email unless you're sure that none of the other experts know, AND you're sure no one else will be looking for the same answer.

BTW, I think you should tone down your "ask in the right forum" posts a little. Questions that need a lot of back and forth discussion ought to be directed to the right place, but zero overlap between the forums is an unreasonable goal. I see nothing wrong with answering the easy ones in whichever forum they show up in. Rob is taking a slightly harder line than that in JP1 and that's his show, so I'm not going to argue it there. Here I think Daniel Tonks sets the rules and I don't think (correct me if I'm wrong) he has banned JP1 discussion.

Long ago I did a lot of USENET posting, so I know the basic argument that answering the easy but misplaced questions is a bad thing because it encourages more people to misplace questions. I don't see how that fits JP1 at all because the people who ask off topic questions there almost never read through enough previous posts to be aware (encouraged or discouraged) of how previous off topic posts have been treated.

Here, I don't think anyone will resist a gentle suggestion to move complex JP1 discussion to the JP1 group, because they will understand, once that suggestion is made, that they will get better and faster JP1 answers there. For the simple JP1 questions, I still think it is easier to answer them here than to redirect them.


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