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Bit out of the blue this one, was not expecting this yet.
Whilst I do not have a change log, the following are known to me
1. New Showcase
2. Option to toggle HD prompt on/off in General Settings, On screen display.
iOS Freesat app has also got an update too.
Quite like the new look of Showcase and also noticed the on demand section has been given a spruce too.
I’m not trying to be flippant but I checked out showcase when I first purchased the box in February of last year and haven’t been near it since.
Why someone thinks they know what I might be interested in watching has always remained a mystery to me.
Faust – 58 minutes ago »
I’m not trying to be flippant but I checked out showcase when I first purchased the box in February of last year and haven’t been near it since.
Why someone thinks they know what I might be interested in watching has always remained a mystery to me.
So you’ve never looked at a TV guide magazine or been recommended a program that you were previously unaware of before, thus sparking your interest, then watching and enjoying?
You could argue that looking through the guide is enough, but IMO just looking through the guide doesn’t always have things jump out at you to gain your interest.
Faust – 9 hours ago »
I’m not trying to be flippant but I checked out showcase when I first purchased the box in February of last year and haven’t been near it since.
Why someone thinks they know what I might be interested in watching has always remained a mystery to me.
Believe it or not Showcase isn’t a personal recommendation tailer made and sent out to each user, it is only a selection of programmes that Freesat feel might be of interest to the varying tastes of their customers.
If your box is automatically setting Showcase programmes to record or switching channels and making you watch them then it is faulty.
I noticed that when I turned on my box this morning and scrolled up through the Home menu that both the On Demand and Showcase sections had connect to the internet to use messages, after a short amount of time Showcase and On Demand icons appeared.
Connected via Ethernet and before this update you could open the likes of YouTube pretty much straight away, but now it seems you have to wait a bit for a connection to be made.
Is anyone else seeing the same thing or do you think a reset is in order?
Since updating software have lost channel name in TV Guide. Have tried reset and switched of but still no names like BBC 1, ITV etc, anyone else experiencing this problem?
jonmuss – 19 minutes ago »
Since updating software have lost channel name in TV Guide. Have tried reset and switched of but still no names like BBC 1, ITV etc, anyone else experiencing this problem?
Yes yesterday, but now back with no intervention from me.
I lost just 3 for a very short period. After closing the guide and re-opening they came back immediately. All present today.
I updated yesterday and lost both on demand and showcase – I have tried a factory reset, switched off at the mains and tried switching my router off and on again. I am in contact with Freesat but to no avail yet….
-gonzo- – 22 hours ago »
Faust – 58 minutes ago »
I’m not trying to be flippant but I checked out showcase when I first purchased the box in February of last year and haven’t been near it since.
Why someone thinks they know what I might be interested in watching has always remained a mystery to me.
So you’ve never looked at a TV guide magazine or been recommended a program that you were previously unaware of before, thus sparking your interest, then watching and enjoying?
You could argue that looking through the guide is enough, but IMO just looking through the guide doesn’t always have things jump out at you to gain your interest.
I don’t know if you can remember but Sky used to have something similar only worse in that Sky withheld part of the HDD space and actually downloaded programmes it thought you wanted to watch. I tried it for three months and never wanted to watch one single programme so turned it off. However, you still couldn’t reclaim the disk space. Made me as mad as hell.
Regarding New Showcase…
The TV in the top right is tiny now, there does seem to be room to have it a little larger than that.
And they are Showcasing 4HD now which is great, they may have been doing that for a while but I haven’t checked lately.
Showcase was one of my favourite things about the ui. Sadly this new version has been jazzed up and it’s slowed it right down. The hardware just can’t cope as is, and adding animation and translucency is too much for it. Slow sluggish scrolling.
And whereas before selecting a programme would automatically display info about that programme at the top of the screen – so you could quickly decide whether or not to watch – now you have to press the “i” button, which is annoying.
Tastes differ. I like the new Showcase better, and I haven’t seen a slowdown.
I hope Freesat will consider expanding the Search facility to cover catchup as well as the EPG. So if you see a series on Showcase after the first episode has already aired, Showcase could run the Search and quickly tell you if the first episode(s) are still on catchup.
Also hope they’ll add genre searching so I can find out what movies are available, either in the EPG or catchup.
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