tom921
01-24-05, 09:44 AM
921 s/w: L211
Through this forum I have gotten to the bottom of two aggravating issues. (Dishnet 921 advanced support was not able to help with either.):
1) the 921 display settings change from 1080i, 16:9 to 480p, 16:9 overnight.
2) the page up/down remote buttons stop working overnight.
Both issues were caused because we turned off the 921 when in SD output mode, rather than HD mode. The over-night auto-reboot then changed 1080i setting to 480p and obviously created some other problems. Oddly, it left the aspect ratio at 16:9. I can accept that there is a factory default setting of 480p in HD mode but once I have changed that setting to 1080i, or changed any other factory default setting for that matter, it think that the s/w should not change it unless I ask to restore the factory settings.
I take the position that I should not have to remember to switch back to HD before turning off the 921 but rather than push that issue, I would like to generalize the question to the s/w changing my settings. After getting a call-back from 921 Technical Product Support, it was obvious that she didn't consider changing user specified settings a bug.
BTW, I found that using the front panel change mode button to change from HD-SD-HD would restore page up/down functionality. As a 30 year s/w developer, I find this mind numbing. We used to refer to this as spaghetti code.
Through this forum I have gotten to the bottom of two aggravating issues. (Dishnet 921 advanced support was not able to help with either.):
1) the 921 display settings change from 1080i, 16:9 to 480p, 16:9 overnight.
2) the page up/down remote buttons stop working overnight.
Both issues were caused because we turned off the 921 when in SD output mode, rather than HD mode. The over-night auto-reboot then changed 1080i setting to 480p and obviously created some other problems. Oddly, it left the aspect ratio at 16:9. I can accept that there is a factory default setting of 480p in HD mode but once I have changed that setting to 1080i, or changed any other factory default setting for that matter, it think that the s/w should not change it unless I ask to restore the factory settings.
I take the position that I should not have to remember to switch back to HD before turning off the 921 but rather than push that issue, I would like to generalize the question to the s/w changing my settings. After getting a call-back from 921 Technical Product Support, it was obvious that she didn't consider changing user specified settings a bug.
BTW, I found that using the front panel change mode button to change from HD-SD-HD would restore page up/down functionality. As a 30 year s/w developer, I find this mind numbing. We used to refer to this as spaghetti code.