Larry <noone@home.com> wrote in
news:Xns98FEE7E0BDAE6noonehomecom@208.49.80.253:
> I haven't figured out WHO is responsible for this STUPID periodical,
> total interruption of TV service. The investigation starts Monday.
> It is to both MobiTV and Alltel's advantage to stop the load on their
> system every 10 minutes so users, even user paying double for
> unlimited data, can't just leave the TV running an hour or so while
> they eat breakfast in a diner or leave it running on their desks at
> work.
I had calls in to Alltel and MobiTV, today. MobiTV called and I had a
nice chat with a fellow about this issue. "Who's Responsible" is ALLTEL.
The nag screen interrupting TV service every 10 minutes is built into the
Axcess TV client and CANNOT be turned off. It was written into MobiTV's
contract with Alltel and MobiTV tells me they are trying very hard to get
Alltel to eliminate this beancounter stupidity, or at LEAST get Alltel to
let them lengthen the 10 minutes out to 30 or 60 minutes so you can watch
a program or the news or the Weather or a sports program in one piece.
Dear Alltel....you have 28 days left to respond to my request to have
this "feature" eliminated from my Axcess TV. The choice is yours. Load
the SAME Axcess TV software the CEO and Chairman of the Board has in
their cellphones....without the nag screen...and I'll stay.
Damned cellular....same old crap from all of them.
I added Axcess TV, Alltel's branded MobiTV, to my new E815 and after
watching it all weekend, I thought I'd give potential buyers a glimpse of
what it's like to watch TV on a cellphone data link that has unlimited
data downloading (an extra $10/mo over the $9.99/mo for TV).
You can test it, yourself, before buying anything with an ordinary TV on
cable and a security light timer used to leave your lights on for 10
minutes, the kind you plug in. This timer does the same thing new cars
do with their headlights/interior lights on after you shut off the car.
If you don't have or can't find a suitable timer that can be set to turn
off in 10 minutes and NOT come back on automatically, just use an
extension cord and do it manually.
Unplug your smallest TV from the wall and plug it into the security light
timer. Set the timer to delay turn off 10 minutes and not automatically
reset the circuit back on.
Turn on the timer and TV and tune to your favorite news channel.
Watch TV for 10 minutes.
The timer will disconnect the TV from its AC power and stay off.
Make believe the TV post a message that says:
"Resume Watching TV?"
Press the reset on the timer, turning the power back on to the TV. The
length of time it takes the TV to boot back up and start showing you the
channel is about as long as it takes MobiTV to reconnect to the phone and
reload the client's buffer to start showing your channel, again.
About every 10th time you watch TV on the timer, take the batteries out
of the remote control so none of the buttons work and you can't display
the Guide or change the channel until you go out into the garage and shut
off the main circuit breaker to your house and turn it back on again,
simulating when MobiTV's TV client or Motorola's OS software crashes so
no button you push makes any control of the MobiTV software. Just
rebooting MobiTV off then on does not cure this crashing, only rebooting
the hole phone will recover it. At least you don't have to remove the
battery and replace it!
I haven't figured out WHO is responsible for this STUPID periodical,
total interruption of TV service. The investigation starts Monday. It
is to both MobiTV and Alltel's advantage to stop the load on their system
every 10 minutes so users, even user paying double for unlimited data,
can't just leave the TV running an hour or so while they eat breakfast in
a diner or leave it running on their desks at work. Cellular has never
quite gotten over what "unlimited" anything really means, substituting
their own "interpretation" to suit maximizing profits...like dumping you
off every 10 minutes.
The picture is like watching streaming TV on a slow ISDN line...You get
about 5-10 frames per second, unless someone else is downloading from
their aircards on a laptop, then it balks, stops, reloads, starts again.
This balking has NOTHING to do with the "Resume Watching TV" nonsense.
Until the 10 minutes is up, it will reload and restart automatically.
The "Resume Watching TV" nonsense happens even if you're staring at the
tower with a saturated phone signal and no balking whatsoever.
Before you throw your shoe at the big TV that shuts off at exactly the
time when Fox News has ALERT come on, unplug the timer and plug the TV
back into stable power so it stays on all the time. My Axcess TV will do
that by the end of the month or it's HISTORY!
In article <Xns98FFDA1AC8883noonehomecom@208.49.80.253>, Larry wrote:
> I had calls in to Alltel and MobiTV, today. MobiTV called and I had a
> nice chat with a fellow about this issue. "Who's Responsible" is ALLTEL.
Larry, for some reason I'm thinking that Sprint offers the MobiTV
service too...? Perhaps you should talk to some of the people over
there to see if they're having the same problem?
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"Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@JustThe.net> wrote in
news:slrnf0h2ag.fb6.sjsobol@amethyst.justthe.net:
> Larry, for some reason I'm thinking that Sprint offers the MobiTV
> service too...? Perhaps you should talk to some of the people over
> there to see if they're having the same problem?
>
>
It's Alltel. I talked directly to MobiTV and they're having meetings
trying to find a way to get Alltel to drop this nonsense.
I have a friend who has MobiTV on Cingular and is quite happy with it.
He lives in Columbia, SC, but travels as an EMC service engineer all over
the state. His MobiTV on Cingular's 3G does not have this stupid
disconnect. It runs until you turn it off...as it should.
If it cannot be bypassed, I'll simply dump Axcess TV on the anniversary
date as they won't refund my $20. I might as well watch it hobbled up
until next month.
Larry
--
Alltel Axcess TV - 10 minutes of TV
then it dumps you until you click to
get 10 minutes more. It SUCKS!
Larry <noone@home.com> wrote in news:Xns9900E7F11E07Enoonehomecom@
208.49.80.253:
> If it cannot be bypassed, I'll simply dump Axcess TV on the anniversary
> date as they won't refund my $20. I might as well watch it hobbled up
> until next month.
>
>
I found a workaround to stop it dumping me.......
Press any key before it dumps and it SEEMS to reset the dump timer so it
never dumps you. Just press a button that the TV client doesn't respond to
every 5 minutes and it plays on and on, here....without having to reload
and rebuffer itself. The play is then continuous.
Axcess TV Simulator....try before you buy.
Linear Mode
