Cable TV Gone Bad

Wow, reading that title for this post makes me think I’m going to say something about the programming on Cable TV. Like, somehow something on Cable TV was morally objectionable. Except than I remember who I am, and realize that there isn’t much that offends me in the world (see earlier post about art teacher telling me my motivations are incorrect for an example).

Anyway, I was sitting here waiting for my cable box to reboot, reset, and let the servers know it had reset, and I thought I’d post, since my cable modem is on a split, filtered boosted, re-filtered, unboosted line and I have internet access whether or not I have cable TV now. What I wanted to post about was this thing I just figured out:

The Bartending Academy’s commercial is a corrupted digital file, and it likely contains a virus.

I noticed some time ago that The Bartending Academy’s ads don’t have sound anymore, and are often accompanied by digital visual corruption. It wasn’t until just a few moments ago that I noticed that it was the third or fourth time I’d seen my cable box become unstable during a Bartending Academy commercial and then crash as soon as I hit a button that affected the cable box. And by crash, I mean total crash. The little LED screen that normally shows the time or the channel actually manages to say “ER:oR” before it goes to static. And I don’t mean the TV screen goes to static; the LED briefly displays static, then shuts off. The TV goes black, after a moment the logo of the company that made the software that is hard-wired into the box, as it resets itself to factory presets, comes up and disappears.

Note: it is then up to fifteen minutes before the box has fully restored itself to factory presets, identified itself to the network, and is allowed to decode the signals of channels above 22.

I wonder who I should call at Cox to complain about a corrupt ad.

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14 thoughts on “Cable TV Gone Bad”

  1. It is! From every place I know to test it! I only had to do and un-do the “fix” recommended on the support forums, and then manually modify the code in a way the official people say I shouldn’t do. Yep. That’s all.

    Now I’m going to try rebuilding the monthly pages.

  2. It is! From every place I know to test it! I only had to do and un-do the “fix” recommended on the support forums, and then manually modify the code in a way the official people say I shouldn’t do. Yep. That’s all.

    Now I’m going to try rebuilding the monthly pages.

  3. Okay, real comment here:

    I just noticed my TV went silent, looked up, saw the corrupt ad, and turned my cable box off. Waiting 30 seconds… fuck. It’s gone bad anyway.
    Stupid corrupted ad.

  4. Okay, real comment here:

    I just noticed my TV went silent, looked up, saw the corrupt ad, and turned my cable box off. Waiting 30 seconds… fuck. It’s gone bad anyway.
    Stupid corrupted ad.

  5. I am trying to contact Gary Burritt for my father William Norman Burritt. My maiden name is Lorie-Ann Burritt and we have noticed in the credits of many movies your name as negative cutter. My father believes that your grandparents and my grandparents visited one another in Niagara Falls, Ontario. His curiosity has been peeked, and it would be an exceptional gift to him to find out more about his relationship to you. We have a great deal of information on our family tree thanks to a cousin named Ruth Burritt. She has done a lot of research on our geneology. This has always fascinated me and my father always ingrained in us to be proud of our name. I hope that you can contact me via the internet, if not my address is 1385 Third Ave., St. Catharines,Ontario.,L2R 6P9. Thanks, and your title was very eye-catching. Great work on your part in the movies you have been involved in!

  6. I am trying to contact Gary Burritt for my father William Norman Burritt. My maiden name is Lorie-Ann Burritt and we have noticed in the credits of many movies your name as negative cutter. My father believes that your grandparents and my grandparents visited one another in Niagara Falls, Ontario. His curiosity has been peeked, and it would be an exceptional gift to him to find out more about his relationship to you. We have a great deal of information on our family tree thanks to a cousin named Ruth Burritt. She has done a lot of research on our geneology. This has always fascinated me and my father always ingrained in us to be proud of our name. I hope that you can contact me via the internet, if not my address is 1385 Third Ave., St. Catharines,Ontario.,L2R 6P9. Thanks, and your title was very eye-catching. Great work on your part in the movies you have been involved in!

  7. I am trying to contact Gary Burritt for my father William Norman Burritt. My maiden name is Lorie-Ann Burritt and we have noticed in the credits of many movies your name as negative cutter. My father believes that your grandparents and my grandparents visited one another in Niagara Falls, Ontario. His curiosity has been peeked, and it would be an exceptional gift to him to find out more about his relationship to you. We have a great deal of information on our family tree thanks to a cousin named Ruth Burritt. She has done a lot of research on our geneology. This has always fascinated me and my father always ingrained in us to be proud of our name. I hope that you can contact me via the internet, if not my address is 1385 Third Ave., St. Catharines,Ontario.,L2R 6P9. Thanks, and your title was very eye-catching. Great work on your part in the movies you have been involved in!

  8. I am trying to contact Gary Burritt for my father William Norman Burritt. My maiden name is Lorie-Ann Burritt and we have noticed in the credits of many movies your name as negative cutter. My father believes that your grandparents and my grandparents visited one another in Niagara Falls, Ontario. His curiosity has been peeked, and it would be an exceptional gift to him to find out more about his relationship to you. We have a great deal of information on our family tree thanks to a cousin named Ruth Burritt. She has done a lot of research on our geneology. This has always fascinated me and my father always ingrained in us to be proud of our name. I hope that you can contact me via the internet, if not my address is 1385 Third Ave., St. Catharines,Ontario.,L2R 6P9. Thanks, and your title was very eye-catching. Great work on your part in the movies you have been involved in!

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