will HR20/21 ever match the HR10's guide/menu speed?

[kathymoore]

will HR20/21 ever match the HR10's guide/menu speed?

after using the HR20/21 for a while, I actually prefer it
over my old HR10s.

However, the HR20/21 is painfully slow when it comes
to adding new programs to be recorded. The menu
& guide is just no match for the HR10 HD DirecTiVo's
speed.

Is this a hardware or software issue?

Thanks! :)

[davring]

I find it to be competely opposite. Highlight a show in the guide and hit the record button, done.

[poppo]

However, the HR20/21 is painfully slow when it comes
to adding new programs to be recorded. The menu
& guide is just no match for the HR10 HD DirecTiVo's
speed.

Is this a hardware or software issue?



Huh :confused: Unless your HR20/21 is seriously broken, it should be extremely faster than the HR10 for setting up recordings (and everything else for that matter). As fast I can press the record button it's done whether in the guide or setting up a series recording after a search.

[LI-SVT]

I kinda agree with the OP. My HR10 is defiantly faster than my HR20. My R15 blows them both away.

[rlgold88]

Huh :confused: Unless your HR20/21 is seriously broken, it should be extremely faster than the HR10 for setting up recordings (and everything else for that matter). As fast I can press the record button it's done whether in the guide or setting up a series recording after a search.
yes thats what I said when I read the ops post I find the Hr20 is leaps and bounds faster then the hr10-250.

[kathymoore]

I find it to be competely opposite. Highlight a show in the guide and hit the record button, done.

Yes, I do agree that it's much faster when doing one-touch recording of
highlight program in the guide. This is by far the the best feature that
I like about the HR20/21. The HR10 HD Tivo requires at least two key
presses to accomplish the same thing.

What I find slow is the speed of the guide when looking up all the programs
on a particular channel. For example, I highlight the channel number and
press info to bring up the program list. It's slow... even slower when I scroll
down. The List Guid in my old HR10 HD Tivo is way faster at this...

:)

[Agrajag]

Learn something new every day.....

I read the initial post and thought the guy had a broken HR20. There's just no comparison in speed and figured there must be more to this. I then read on and didn't even realize you could hit the Info button that way to get that information.

Hmm..... Thanks!

Now speed it up..... heheheh

[Drew2k]

I see what KathyMoore is talking about now, and yes, it's slow to get the results when pressing INFO on a channel number in the guide. I think what threw people off was talking about recording while doing this, because they are really separate activities.

I think DIRECTV will eventually speed up the single-channel list of programs, because this feature is becoming more well known and more people will be talking about it. I say just give it some time ... and keep talking about it! :)

[bonscott87]

Doing Info on a channel is slow? It takes maybe 2-3 seconds to pull up the list and one touch record your way to a dozen movies set to record in less then a minute. I challange you to do it that quick on any Tivo. ;)

[Drew2k]

Doing Info on a channel is slow? It takes maybe 2-3 seconds to pull up the list and one touch record your way to a dozen movies set to record in less then a minute. I challange you to do it that quick on any Tivo. ;)On my HR20, it takes 5 seconds for the Please Wait message to go away and I can begin paging. Also, if you press GUIDE > LEFT > INFO at the :29 minuete or :59 minute mark and leave the list open, 1 minute later the PLEASE WAIT message will pop-up again, and this time stay on screen quite a bit longer than 5 seconds.

On my HR10, when I press GUIDE, I already have a list of all upcoming programs on a channel and can immediately page through it. When the time changes to :30 or the top of the hour there is no additional delay for the guide data to refresh.

So yes, pressing INFO on a channel number in the HR20 guide is slow. ;)

[poppo]

Well, I knew about the left > info trick, but never felt a need to use it. But anyway I tried it and it took 4 seconds to populate. Paging through the list was just as fast or faster than paging in the regular guide. Regardless, it still is faster than any recording mode on my HR10s. Perhaps it's because I'm using a custom guide with only 30 channels.

[poppo]

On my HR10, when I press GUIDE, I already have a list of all upcoming programs on a channel and can immediately page through it.

Yes, but when you page on the HR10, it often takes about a second or more for each screen to populate, so after a few pages, you have ended up waiting just as long as the HR20.

In any case, I stick by my original comment that if the OP thinks the HR20 is that much slower than the HR10, it must be broken. :)

[RAD]

On my HR20, it takes 5 seconds for the Please Wait message to go away and I can begin paging. Also, if you press GUIDE > LEFT > INFO at the :29 minuete or :59 minute mark and leave the list open, 1 minute later the PLEASE WAIT message will pop-up again, and this time stay on screen quite a bit longer than 5 seconds.

The intial 5 or so seconds is the same on mine. Never did it at the :29 or :59 mark but it could be an issue with the box doing some type of other housekeeping chore at the 1/2 hour change. Guess you could send D* an e-mail about this or do what a Doctor told me once, if doing that hurts don't do it.

[glennb]

I don't think anything is slow on my HR20.

[Stuart Sweet]

I never had an HR10 but I can say with my R10 the guide speed was pretty slow. Not as slow as my old HDVR2 but the HR20 handily beats both. Of course I refer to the regular guide on the TiVo not the "TiVo Style Guide".