Our Shaw cable box,Pace PVR,continously BLANKS out for no reason,When it does the guide on the tv says to be anounced for a minute or more! Changing the channel or hitting the channel guide up usually sets it off! Been in contact with Shaw Cable MANY times,even had a techie come in! We have plugged it directly in to outlet & followed everything they suggested,to no avail! Any ideas whats going on? The box is only 1year old! Thank you!Also we even have a replacement & does the same!!!

Hello, Average Dave first you must verify that you have access to the internet, being like this:
1) if you are connected through cable check that both terminals are connected, if it is for Wifi; you can go to settings on your TV and check in Network if you are connected.
2) Reset the device, disconnecting it from the power for 30 seconds and reconnect it.
3) You can contact the customer service to check that they are sending the signal, they can also check the status of the account and your equipment.
and another option would be a factory reset in the Digital Cable Box to start from zero.

Take your Shaw remote.
Press the GUIDE button.
Use the up/down buttons to select the channel for the program.
Use the RIGHT button to move forward in time until you see the name of the desired program.
Press the INFO button.
Press the RIGHT button, to highlight the "red" RECORD button.
Press OK.

Darcy, is the cable sign on on the PVR? If not make sure it is ON. Now see if you can record etc. Failing this, Shaw will guide you on the phone .

Do you have a optical/coaxial input on your system? Eg: cable, TV.I use a optical input on my Yamaha ( cable, satellite ). Look to see if there is a optical/coaxial output on your pvr, there should be. Use ether the optical or coaxial output from your pvr and connect it to the cable (satellite ) optical/coaxial input on your receiver. The manual that came with your Shaw PVR should explain how. You will get 5.1 surround if available on certain channels.I prefer optical over coaxial myself, but they both work well.If you don't have optical/coaxial inputs on your receiver, you will have to use RCA cables, analogue out on cable box, to tape input or aux on your receiver. You will not get surround sound, just stereo. But it's better than nothing.

Take your Shaw remote control.
Press SETTINGS.
Use the LEFT/RIGHT keys to highlight PVR.
Click OK.
Use the LEFT/RIGHT/UP/DOWN keys to highlight PVR HISTORY.
Click OK.
Scroll through the entries, looking for any "hardware failed" or "hardware error" messages -- finding any implies a failing disk-drive inside the Expander.
Need more help? Telephone Shaw, and ask for "technical support" for TV/PVR.

Disconnect the AC power from the PVR.
Reconnect it.
Wait a few minutes for the device to "call home" to completely reset itself.
Then, press LIST to show the recordings, instead of those "asterisk" characters.
Failing that, telephone Shaw to get free technical support.

restart the setup box

This is a very common problem with no real solution. If your TV can be programmed to accept separate audio from HDMI video on the same input, you can feed the audio through standard RCA cables. Unfortunately most TV's do not allow this. Alternatively run them into a stereo receiver. Buying high end HDMI cables will not help. Most people I know with this issue have bit the bullet & just used component video instead. The difference in quality is minimal.

2 hdmi inputs on samsung tv? different ways you can do it.if it was me i would run samsung blue ray to tv hdmi in,shaw box [if supported hdmi]to tv in, if not coax.
and i would sound out on tv to yamaha?

You need to turn on closed captions through the menu of your PVR. To have it on all the time, turn the box off, press menu on the front of the box, and scroll down to captions.
This should fix the problem