Why did TIVO tell me to rerun setup?

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George Max <lazarus@removethiswi.rr.com> wrote in
news:f4e5j15nd46hph83a3inmf07mnhk46cjet@4ax.com:

> When the last phone call occurred for my SA TIVO series 2, it told me
> I needed to rerun the guided setup portion relevant to my signal
> source. I get most of my channels from DISH. It said DISH had made a
> change, so it followed that TIVO needed to have part of the setup
> rerun.
>
> What gives? Why did that happen?

Going out on a limb here, I am going to guess that DISH made a change which
required you to go through guided setup again. Purely a guess, you
understand.

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lazarus@removethiswi.rr.com shaped the electrons to say:
>C'mon - all the same channels all the time. Nothings different. This
>just seems bizarre and useless.

And it may be - wouldn't be the first time a CSR gave out bogus
instructions. Like PC support - when in doubt reboot. If that
doesn't work - reinstall.

What problem, if any, caused you to call support?

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