Jordanis
03-17-03, 05:35 PM
I noticed something odd the other day...
I turned on the TV (and SAT etc..) early in the morning, went to work in the other room (I listen to it as I work), and about a few hours later (2-3 I think), I came in to see a nice Tree Pattern being pasted all over the TV set. A few seconds later it changed to a maze, further watching and it was a dish logo.
This seems to be a screensaver.. but WHY?
I didn't have the screen paused, in fact the Dish had no idea I wasn't sitting there watching it.
Any idea WHY the screensaver would come on while watching a show? (I was able to remove it rather easily by pressing "GUIDE").
If there isn't a way to turn it off, does anyone know the criteria that decides if it should turn on or not? I presume it's time based, but perhaps it's also channel based??
I can't fathom why someone would put a screensaver on a television, except perhaps if the PVR function was in pause mode, otherwise it's kind of silly.
I even called Tech Support, thier solution and explaination was that it is supposed to do that, every 7 minutes (yea RIGHT!) and to turn it off just press guide. Obviously that tech had no clue what he was talking about since I've watched the TV for more than 7 minutes before and it didn't come on.
Very odd.
Jordan
I turned on the TV (and SAT etc..) early in the morning, went to work in the other room (I listen to it as I work), and about a few hours later (2-3 I think), I came in to see a nice Tree Pattern being pasted all over the TV set. A few seconds later it changed to a maze, further watching and it was a dish logo.
This seems to be a screensaver.. but WHY?
I didn't have the screen paused, in fact the Dish had no idea I wasn't sitting there watching it.
Any idea WHY the screensaver would come on while watching a show? (I was able to remove it rather easily by pressing "GUIDE").
If there isn't a way to turn it off, does anyone know the criteria that decides if it should turn on or not? I presume it's time based, but perhaps it's also channel based??
I can't fathom why someone would put a screensaver on a television, except perhaps if the PVR function was in pause mode, otherwise it's kind of silly.
I even called Tech Support, thier solution and explaination was that it is supposed to do that, every 7 minutes (yea RIGHT!) and to turn it off just press guide. Obviously that tech had no clue what he was talking about since I've watched the TV for more than 7 minutes before and it didn't come on.
Very odd.
Jordan