wrote: What happened to the Movie Star Bios on Xfinity??
Here Yesterday--Gone Today-- No Reason---
It was a Nice feature to find out about different stars--and to see what other movies they were in.
Also--made it easier to find the Movie with Voice--instead of looking for it-
Anyone else having this problem??
https://forums.xfinity.com/t5/X1/Actor-actress-bio-info-gone/m-p/3119213#M152630
The "annoying sound skips" have nothing to do with CEC. The CEC feature has been gone for months and I get sound skips every day (sometimes with ~300msec of video pixelation). This is another annoying artifact that I am not sure what exactly the culprit is but since many Infinity users I know don't experience this I chock it up to the ARRIS XG1v4
AS there are other people who might find it useful and not have an issue with it then maybe for them it would be a good thing and they would leave it on and use it. If it did not work for some then they could disable it and that is that.
wrote: The "annoying sound skips" have nothing to do with CEC. The CEC feature has been gone for months and I get sound skips every day (sometimes with ~300msec of video pixelation). This is another annoying artifact that I am not sure what exactly the culprit is but since many Infinity users I know don't experience this I chock it up to the ARRIS XG1v4
Yes, it's gone from the X1 box, but as I pointed out, I had to disable it on my TV. Since I cured it by disabling CEC/ARC and using optical, obviously that was the issue.
Whatever your other issues are with your video should be addressed in a separate thread.
I spoke with a friend who works in some sort of engineering capacity with Comcast. While he was unaware of the biographies being gone, he stated it probably has to do with the amount of bandwidth it uses.
Yes, I'm also very disappointed about this change. I spoke with a friend who works in some sort of engineering capacity with Comcast. While he was unaware of the biographies being gone, he stated it probably has to do with the amount of bandwidth it uses. I still don't like it!
i do not have a smart TV but just got one ...I need to know if i can just set up my DVR tv box and not connet it to the internet as just use it like i always use a regular TV
Any sucess? I changed my settings late last night (early this morning) 760p from 480 and was pleasantly surprised that it was not zoomed any more. Later this afternoon, I played with settings again and put zoom back on and changed back to 480 and still OKAY. What's going on?? I don't get it. Now it seems fine no matter which setting I have, even tried 480p and 480i (don't know what the difference is).
I am worried it will not "hold" and I'll be stuck again in zoom later tonight when I want to watch tv again. Any word from comcast on this bug???
I am having a horrible issue with one of our wireless boxes freezing up all the time. It is in the main bedroom and it happens daily and it is very frustrating. It knocks out the program and than I have to go into it all over again from the beginning. How can this be fixed?
wrote: I am having a horrible issue with one of our wireless boxes freezing up all the time. It is in the main bedroom and it happens daily and it is very frustrating. It knocks out the program and than I have to go into it all over again from the beginning. How can this be fixed?
this is usually caused by low 5g wifi signal level or too much noise for the signal to get through. have you tried to move the wireless set top box closer to the modem/gateway or the gateway closer to the set top box.
I feel I have overpaid for service a long time. Think I finally decided it is worth looking for alternatives to Comcast. Invited my friends to a British Open party only to find out the ridiculous system will not record anything over 7 hours. Shows it recording but just doesn't. Lost me.
It is as close as it can be without be out of the bedroom. My son's box is furthers away and he has no issues. I really dislike xfinity at the present time 
After a trying 6-hour Xfinity installation appointment yesterday, and nearly an hour on chat with tech support today, here's what I think I've learned. Can someone tell me if i'm wrong, or if you see another way to get this done?
My current setup:
- Arris 8200 Modem, DOCSIS 3.1. No Wi-Fi or MoCA with this box, just a straight-up modem. Attached to house's Comcast feed from street via one arm of a splitter.
- X1 non-DVR box, attached to main house Comcast feed via other arm of splitter; this powers the "main" TV over a coax connection. This is working well.
- secondary box for upstairs TV; first attempt it was ? maybe xi3 box; final attempt xi5P; doesn't work.
I use Unifi Networks gear, including a gateway and a switch, and a WiFi transmitter on each floor of a 3-floor townhouse. The place has ethernet and coax in-wall, which terminate in a closet in usual disorderly, poorly-labeled builder style. (Built 2013). So my modem, gateway, and switch live in the wiring closet, and the WiFi transmitters are hardwired to the system thru the switch. All works well.
I wasn't here to witness the installation (poor wife), but evidently the tech got internet service going (which I later got configured into my LAN/WiFi networks) at nearly gig speeds. So far so good. And the main TV works fine. I'm not sure which secondary box he was trying to install at first, but he ran afoul of "cable" issues. Perhaps he was trying to connect the primary X1 box via in-wall coax run to the upstairs secondary box? At any rate, he failed. I convinced him to leave us the xi5-P box so I could try to make it work, but evidently it's incompatible with the Arris 8200 modem because the Arris lacks MoCA.
MoCA is a protocol that allows ethernet signals to propagate over coax, correct? If this is so, then what the secondary box "wants" is ethernet. Indeed, the xi5P has both WiFi and ethernet connection ability. Not sure why it *has* to be MoCA.
I'd rather keep this modem, and figure a workaround for the upstairs TV. I have tried to set up the xi5P box by connecting it to my network via ethernet or WiFi. My system recognizes it and assigns it a local, internal IP address, but the box won't complete its startup routine. "Connection" issues errors pop up. I've even connected it directly to the second ethernet port on the modem; no dice.
I'm tempted to think that there's a port or VLAN setting that would allow this to work; but if so, Comcast/Xfinity ain't sharing it!
Anyone have any insight on this? Thanks all!