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Pollensa1946 – 4 hours ago »
One improvement noted is the EPG is lots faster populating. Well done on that one.
Yes it is (to me anyway) a massive improvement. It seems now on a Page Down or Up that the whole guide screen is no longer being redrawn leading to the speedup. Well done!
woka77 – 33 minutes ago »
I love the new update even the option to watch HD when pressing ok button when a channel is selected like BBC one,two itv but WHY doesn’t it work on channel 4?
That’s all down to Channel 4 not adding the required information to its program data.
Something I have noticed that’s missing in the recording planner display, I’m sure it used to list the time as well as the date. I found that quite useful for seeing at a glance when things were going to be recorded.
I only noticed because on Monday evening I recorded Inside Out on both BBC1 SW and BBC1 W Mid (cos they have different editions and I needed to get both of them). My planner at the time showed two entries for 19:30 for Inside Out. Today, after the update, it just shows that I’m recording a load of programmes with no indication of the times.
Can’t help feeling that Freesat/Humax sometimes change things without any apparent thought/reason.
Apart from that, seems a good update. Especially like the YouTube change.
Hopefully the Android remote app wont be too long now !
Times have never been displayed, it makes it really awkward to tell which is the first when there is two episodes on the same night and the broadcaster does not supply episode data. What is even more confusing is the order is different for those series with episode numbers and those without.
Hi Graham, I know that the PLANNED recordings used to show times because I have photos of the planner taken in early December just before I did a hard disk re-format. (I had the “disk full” problem when it got to 50%).
The two Inside Out entries looked odd because they both said “BBC1 Inside Out Mon 6 Jan 19:30”.
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DLNA Server seems to be improved, this now see’s all movies/tv shows on my Windows Home Server however it does not play the .mkv’s , it does generate a “file format not supported” message rather than trying to play these and fail with a black screen as before.
Blueberryman – 2 hours ago »
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Times have never appeared in a series folder, only a date. The info isn’t in the programme synopsis either. The new firmware replaces the date for yesterday and today in recordings and adds tomorrow in planned recordings. Where the content listed was a folder the times that were there are meaningless (which of the many possible files in a folder does the time refer to ?)
It’s not too bad when the programme carries a series number (even that can cause confusion because within the same series as broadcasters can change the episode numbering).
When there is no episode numbers it’s very confusing.
Look at the contents of my Series Folder for Corrie.
It has 4 episodes on two different days, no easy way to tell which is the first on each day other than the order they are displayed. Had they had episode numbers the order is reversed.
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Sherbet66 – 1 hour ago »
DLNA Server seems to be improved, this now see’s all movies/tv shows on my Windows Home Server however it does not play the .mkv’s , it does generate a “file format not supported” message rather than trying to play these and fail with a black screen as before.
You mean client not server.
Hi Graham, I'm not talking about recorded programmes, that's always been a problem because they don't show times, only dates.
I'm talking about the planned recordings schedule. This jpeg shows what I see today. Compare it with my previous jpeg.
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Two new problems I’m seeing…
1) I’m now getting a message at the bottom of the screen when program trailers/previews are shown… “Press OK to set a reminder for this program” (or very similar words). I don’t recall this being there before? In any event, it works fine except when you want to clear it from the screen by pressing Exit. It then returns and starts continually flashing. Anybody else seeing this?
2) On HD broadcasts I’m now seeing frequent changes in the picture display ratio. The picture edges, both on live HD broadcasts, watching HD recordings, and looking at EPG and Recordings during HD will suddenly spill outside of the TV screen.
All TV and PVR picture/display settings are as before.
Could this be a change to HDMI hand-shaking?
Blueberryman – 36 minutes ago »
Hi Graham, I'm not talking about recorded programmes, that's always been a problem because they don't show times, only dates.
I'm talking about the planned recordings schedule. This jpeg shows what I see today. Compare it with my previous jpeg.
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Right – sorry. Not sure why you need the time though.
Pollensa1946 – 36 minutes ago »
Two new problems I’m seeing…
1) I’m now getting a message at the bottom of the screen when program trailers/previews are shown… “Press OK to set a reminder for this program” (or very similar words). I don’t recall this being there before? In any event, it works fine except when you want to clear it from the screen by pressing Exit. It then returns and starts continually flashing. Anybody else seeing this?
2) On HD broadcasts I’m now seeing frequent changes in the picture display ratio. The picture edges, both on live HD broadcasts, watching HD recordings, and looking at EPG and Recordings during HD will suddenly spill outside of the TV screen.
All TV and PVR picture/display settings are as before.
Could this be a change to HDMI hand-shaking?
1 yes – the static version isn’t too bad but the flashing one is definitely over the top. Never pressed exit, sometimes they flash other times they appear once and go away.
2 No – not noticed any issues at all.
grahamlthompson – 6 minutes ago »
Blueberryman – 36 minutes ago »
Hi Graham, I'm not talking about recorded programmes, that's always been a problem because they don't show times, only dates.
I'm talking about the planned recordings schedule. This jpeg shows what I see today. Compare it with my previous jpeg.
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Right – sorry. Not sure why you need the time though.
It’s useful to see times, otherwise you have to try to set another recording and see if it clashes. Previously, a quick glance at the schedule would immediately tell you if recording another programme was possible.
Just think it’s a backwards step to remove useful information from the display. There is certainly room on the display to show it.
I expect Freesat/Humax had a good reason to do it.
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