08-29-2018 04:37 PM
08-30-2018 12:14 AM
08-30-2018 10:08 AM
@jays77 : That to me would indicate that, although the alert blocked out the entire programme you recorded and was not a crawl, it was still generated by the channel/broadcaster and not Rogers, since the Rogers alert would have blocked out the live programme you were watching.
Of course, Rogers must display alerts according to instructions by the organization generating the alert and if they say it should go province-wide, then Rogers must comply even if there is only a small area of potential impact (like the Tornado in Oro-Medonte). For example, the police often generate a province-wide Amber Alert, even if the "abduction" took place in Thunder Bay, 1300 km from Toronto...
08-30-2018 01:38 PM
08-30-2018 04:47 PM
If I recall. you can skip these alerts with the Nextbox 3.0 by hitting EXIT if you're watching live TV. But if you record everything you watch to timeshift, you'd have no control over that. In my case, I have a SA8300HD and couldn't skip these alerts anyway if I were watching live. Actually, the only reason I even posted this was that this is the first time I've ever encountered a Red Alert since they were introduced.
08-31-2018 12:35 AM
11-28-2018 02:44 PM
11-28-2018 03:43 PM
@57 wrote:Here are my results. I got the alert at 13:56.
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Rogers 4290 STB: This STB is connected to a stereo receiver to listen to Stingray and it also went off at 13:56 a few seconds after the phone. I hit the exit key and the noise went away - good.
Rogers 9865 PVR: I turned on and looked at the PVR at around 14:05. The (red/white with scroll) notice took up part of the screen near the bottom and went away when I hit the exit key. I had scheduled two recordings for that time as a test and neither recording contained the alert - good.
I knew about the alert, but did not think watch TV or set a recording to see if I could catch it. As I recall, the last spate of alerts, mostly orange alerts miss-classified as red, came up on my PVR recordings, which was very annoying. I had no reason to have my cellphone on, but it's an older one and doesn't get them anyway.
Which brings up another concern. What about people who don't have a smartphone that's on 24/7, or don't have a radio playing or TV on?
11-28-2018 04:00 PM - edited 11-28-2018 04:34 PM
@OLDYELLR wrote:Which brings up another concern. What about people who don't have a smartphone that's on 24/7, or don't have a radio playing or TV on?
They (like my wife and me, when not testing) will die in blissful ignorance.
11-29-2018 05:48 PM
So having a new smartphone on 24/7 is the key for survival.