| In childhood memories, nothing is a dump.
Fios TV Update: After the 4th time catching my cable box dead and saying hunt, I called them again and they said "that's strange" they will give me a replacement.
About to give up with my HD-switching issue, I turned to good ol' avsforums and found plenty of useful info:
- the hunt issue is common in a bout 10% of receivers, they are lemons and must all be replaced.
- to view diagnostics, hit selected immediately after turning the unit OFF. You can view all sorts of good info, including signal strength and noise ratios on each of the tuners, and what frequency the currently tuned channel is transmitted on. Nothing to change though.
- And finally what I really needed: At any time while the box is off, hit menu and a user settings display will come up, where you can set the output format of the component outputs (480i, 720p, 1080i) as well as what to do with a SD channel (it was set to 480i, OFF is what I needed to set it to to make it stay in 1080i mode and upconvert and windowbox the SD signal).
You can also set 4:3 letterbox mode and close captioning settings there.
Of course there is no documentation of this screen, and tech support, though I am impressed how nice they are, also have no clue of it. These things should be in the regular GUI settings like they are on all the sat receivers.
Apparently these screens are on all motorola HD stb's.
So when my replacement box is delivered today hopefully, I will be much happier.
Also, in an attempt to back up unwatched DVR recordings last night before they took the box, I tried to use irecord to save the signal via firewire (I was able to do this with my 6200 from RCN). I got unplayable but large data files almost every time, except one local channel, so I assume all the other signals are encrypted or something. | 
