According to Time Warner cable I no longer have TV Guide On Screen because the PBS piggy back signal is no longer being sent. Apparently, PBS is getting ready for HDTV. I live in Wilmington NC and we went digital in Sept 08. Can you verify any of this or offer a solution?

Also on Time Warner Cable and two TVs have stopped receiving Guide Plus in the last month.
Does anyone have suggestions?

Do you have cable TV? Many Cable TV companies have recently (over the last year or two) quit sending TV Guide data. You can get it through an external antenna connected to the TV's antenna input if you are within range of an ABC or NBC and a PBS affiliate for the clock auto set.

But if you still have TV Guide service, some of these have failed circuit boards for the TV Guide, ( usually shows a complete black screen when you turn it on or hit guide button.

Take out the piggy back signal should solved this problems,not than ur Tuner Signal board have some kind of intermitten short in the board.Must replaced the bard.

split your input cable line and connect one end to your digital input and the other to your
analog or air input.

In our case, Time Warner has dropped the channel TV Guide, it used to be channel 99, but it's not even offered any longer, so it would appear that unless this TV guide info/source is fed to the DMR - DVD by some other method, rather than having to have that specific tv channel, I think we are S. O. L.

The problem is not with your machine. TVGOS information is embeded in part of the a PBS analog signal. With the covnversion to digital, some PBS stations are not sending this data out anymore. Also, some cable companies are not converting the digital signals to be sent out on the old 125 analog channels.

If you try to chase this down with the Cable Companies or PBS techs, you will get; blank stares, help desk happy voices, it's not our problem, we don't support TVGOS, etc.

Personally, I think that the digital transition has killed TVGOS. It ain't comin bak, no more, no more.

Start looking for a replacement DVR that is easy to program.

No, wait, try to find one! Blue Ray along with Cable Company & Dish Network, etc. DVR's have killed the market for a stand-alone DVR's.

But there s always TIVO $$$

In order to receive the TV's Guide system, the cable should be connected directly to the TV instead of the cable box if you are still using it.
How do you have the cable box connected to the TV?

Called our son to help us out.

try connecting the box to a different input
also try connecting another device (like a VCR) in place of the box to see if the problem exists without the cable box

Most likely the TV Guide is broadcast from the OTA PBS channel. I don't know why its being lost. I'm thinking its probably a firmware problem of some sort. Adding the PBS channel back in, making sure the signal comes in ok and leaving the TV off for a while might help.