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The entire hosptial had problems with DirecTV?

MarcB

MarcB

I was in New Britain General Hospital from late Saturday until Tuesday because of complications from the surgery I had back on August 11th. This hospital uses DirecTV. There were no weather issues in Connecticut. Between about 2AM Saturday (Sunday Morning) and 12 Noon Monday on no fewer than 4 TVs I saw pop up on the screen every few hours "Your DirecTV Receiver Needs to reboot. Select OK or Cancel." The message would stay up for a few minutes and then the system would reboot. The entire reboot taking around 5 minutes. Was this just the hospital having this issue with their receivers? Back when I was a DirecTV customer I don't ever recall seeing a message like this.

Also worth noting NBC 30 WVIT, A&E, and the NFL Network were all missing. WVIT's position and A&E's position both featured a DirecTV logo that moved around the screen. One channel had the new logo. The other had the old DirecTV logo that had the logo when the were still owned by AT&T. As for the NFL Network, the channel position that had been NFL Network was strangely replaced by a duplicate feed of WCTX/59.
 
DirecTV has a special system for hospitals, hotels, bars, etc so that there is not one receiver for every single TV. They get one large box in a closet that can tune over 100 channels simultaneously.

I'm not sure about the details.
 
MarcB said:
I was in New Britain General Hospital from late Saturday until Tuesday because of complications from the surgery I had back on August 11th.
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Hope you are feeling and doing better!
 
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They have major issues at Saint Francis as well. Half of the channels are blank and most have a bad picture. They are definitely downgrading the signal to analog.
 
Bollocksed over-the-air firmware update?
 
Nah, I meant MarcB's issue. Yours though does seem like an overloaded distribution amp.

The neighbour used to have DiSH Network DVB and the old VIP series receivers would sometimes do the same thing if they received a corrupted firmware update over the air. If received correctly the unit would usually auto-install the firmware silently, either on automatic shut-off or if the user powered it down, or just before shutting off to update the EPG. Sometimes if it arrived corrupted the receiver would crash and display an error message prompting the user to reboot the unit. I guess it was to flush the bad data from RAM (presumably it wasn't yet installed to flash EEPROM) and wait until the next update broadcast.
 
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Wow... place looks like a prison or a federal building!
 
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