I have a Motorola 2224 catv box from Adelphia cable. Does anyone know of a way to turn off the 'flip bar' that comes up when channel surfing? On the 'setup menu' one can adjust where the bar comes up (top or bottom) and how long it stays on (3 sec. - ? several secs.), but no way not to have it come up at all.

Kent

Ken try dropping it in the pool , That should eliminate any on screen menu .
Let me ask you this , WHY CABLE and for that matter
WHY USE BANKRUPT ADELPHIA it sux.
Go direct tv or dish . It will cost you less and they aren't going bankrupt.

kabster,

>Ken try dropping it in the pool , That should >eliminate any on screen menu.

I did and it still kept popping up.

>Let me ask you this , WHY CABLE and for that matter
>WHY USE BANKRUPT ADELPHIA it sux.

Probably because of the bankruptsy, it is about $15/mo. less than a dish with approx. the same channels. And the reception is quite good.

>Go direct tv or dish . It will cost you less and >they aren't going bankrupt.

If it would cost me less where I'm at, I would have gone with a dish, but as I said above....

Kent

Hmmm how much is your cable ?

kabster,


Right now, $38 for basic, digital, music and 7 HBO channels. However, since 5 HBO channels are not coming in, in this area, they aren't charging me for all of HBO, which will be another $10, when they get the other channels up. I get the basic 74 channels (including all locals) and 101-165 digital, 50 odd music channels plus the HBO. When and if the other HBO's are up, I'll pay $48 compared to @$59 for a dish plus $4/month if I want to get the local channels.

They just added the digital service about a month ago, and the reception is excellent and quite a change from past reception. If the reception would have been the same as before - poor - I would have went with a dish.

One other consideration is (I'm assuming since I never had a dish) that if I want to use the 'twin view' (PIP) on my sony hi-scan, I'll need two receivers with the dish. Right now I can run the basic channels on one side of PIP and the digital on the other, which is nice. While I've read here that one can set up a dish to record one channel and watch another, I was unaware of that possibility at the time of deciding to go with cable. For me that is a must, since I tape all the Indian games, and watch other stuff during that time. I was glad to read that is possible now, so that a dish is possible in the future or when Adelphi turns off the switch. I think that they are in Chap 11 - which is "reorganization" (read: screw some creditors and stay in business), so I'll probably stay with cable for now, and at least for now, it is the best deal moneywise.

Kent

Hey kabster,

FYI, just got a note from Adelphia today:
increase in basic cable - $2.00/mo.
increase in digital service - $2.00/mo.

:-(
Kent

Bye Bye Adelphia ? you can get some free equip. from dtv or at least way discounted b-4 your cable box does become a boat anchor :-)
Not too smart on their part.

Motorola cable boxes suck no matter what you do with them. I'm sort of in a situation that's unique, I live exactly on the border between Fridley and New Brighton, technically my house is in New Brighton, but if I go through my backyard and into my neighbor's back yard, I'm in Fridley. My neighbor next to me had AT&T for his cable and it totally sucked, since we both have large trees blocking out view to the south, dish just wasn't an option, I love my shade too much to get a dish. My friend up north has a Dish though, and when the weather is bad, his reception really sucks, trying to watch TV with loud blips and picture freezes just sucks....so we both switched to Time Warner. Plus at the time, TWC had HD Digital Cable before AT&T. So I replaced my AT&T's Motorola digital box with a Scientific Atlanta box, and it's so much nicer, it's not as "TV-Guide Channel" looking as the Motorola, and my Motorola box kept locking up on me, they said it was because of weak signal, but twice they sent out a technician and everything was fine. So far no problems with the SA box, and I get all my HD with no problems. Good riddance to AT&T, Adelphia, oh....and to the Cleveland Indians GO TWINS!!!!

Kent, I'm not familiar with that particular box, we use a different model around here. In the models we use, there is no way to shut off the on-screen guide info. It was programmed from the factory that way, kind-of like the "loading windows xxxx" screen on a pc.
Have you tried www.motorola.com ?