August 5, 2020 - Shaw retires the Pace Whistler PVR

[mdk]

From: Shaw's web-site

Effective August 5 2020, Shaw customers will no longer be able to access any video programming using this TV box.

Visit About: Legacy TV box upgrade program for details. 

Note: This box cannot be re-activated, or moved from one account to another.

The Pace Whistler is a high definition TV box with PVR functionality, capable of ... accessing Video On Demand.

Its disk-drive's capacity is 160 GB.

Later this year, the Pace Summit also will be retired.

[bostonbob · Accepted solution]

This reminds me that I really have watch everything on my old 3416 before that model gets retired too. I still have about 5 or 6 movies from Movie Central ( remember those guys !!!! ) still on that machine. I'm actually afraid to unplug it as the content might just disappear. 😲

[rstra]

Pace boxes were the worst pieces of crap.

[mdk]

@bostonbob -- if you unplug it, will the disk-drive stop, and "seize", and never ever spin-up again? Hmm.

I see that the 6416, not your 3416, will be retired in "early 2021". No announced "sunset-date" for your PVR. YET.

[bostonbob]

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@mdk wrote:

@bostonbob -- if you unplug it, will the disk-drive stop, and "seize", and never ever spin-up again? Hmm.

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Not completely sure but I seem to remember hearing something about about it being possible. 

[mdk]

@bostonbob -- it being possible.

Not only possible, but it has happened to me -- the disk-drive would spin, but nothing could be read.

I did have a "clone" of the failed disk-drive, set aside. Guess what. It too failed.

Sigh.

[mdk]

The Pace Summit was retired on January 14, 2021.

Another Shaw web-page confirms the date.