Gonk,
Did you ever have a chance to swing by Time Warner and pick up a Pace cable box? Was it as easy as they made it sound? Time Warner is now showing ABC and CBS in High Def so I might swing by Saturday and see if they will exchange my box.

TurnerF -- I did finally get a Pace box earlier this week, and have been meaning to post here. As far as I can tell, none of the payment centers have any Pace boxes normally (the one at Mendenhall and Winchester may have now started keeping a couple handy for folks like us). The service trucks seem to have them -- I ended up swapping my box that way (along with the accompanying afternoon at home waiting for them), and the truck had at least two of them. I'd say to call the payment centers, but I never was able to track down phone numbers for any of them.

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What model Pace did you get? Isn't the all digital all the time sweet?

It's the DC-510 I believe (could be the 511, I suppose). Yeah, the digital output is definitely a handy, handy thing.

I thought it was interesting that when switching between channels, there is no loss of signal when going between channels of the same format -- i.e. channels with a native digital signal, or channels that are converted to PCM by the box. There is a several second delay when switching back and forth between native digital and PCM -- seems to take the box a second to shift gears, and then another couple seconds for the 950 to detect and switch. Don't know what sort of delay the 1050 might introduce. I'd expected the longer delay when switching every time, so I was pleased. Of course, since there are two different formats being used, the 950's format lock can't be used.

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