501 gotchas?

[unreg user]

I'm taking advantage of the PVR501 upgrade offer. I haven't seen any "501 BUG" threads in a while, so I was wondering if it's actually stable (compared to the ancient 4000 it will be replacing :D ) or if there's any gotchas or tips and tricks that I should know.

Thanks.

[John Corn]

The 501 has turned out to be a real sweet little PVR.
Go for it, your going to love it. :)

One thing to remember, if the 501 should start acting funny, do a power reset, hold the power button in for 5 secs, that usually takes care of it. I can't remember the last time I had to do it to mine.

[Mdknapp]

Originally posted by unreg user
I'm taking advantage of the PVR501 upgrade offer.

Then definitely let us know how the upgrade goes! My 501 has been VERY stable in the last 4 months... so much so I am upgrading my other receiver to a 501 as well.

Hope they run short of 501s in your area and give you a 508 instead! They have been doing that quite a bit from what I hear!

Let us know how it goes!

Matthew

[Mark Holtz]

I think the biggest complaint about the 501s is simply.... NOT ENOUGH DRIVE SPACE!!!

[DishDude1]

much better than that pos 4000!! I sold mine on ebay about 2 years ago...I feel kinda felt bad for the guy who bought it :(

[P Smith]

you can manually upgrade your 501 to 508 now ... look around ...

[unreg user]

Installer arrived with 501, I pulled out the 4000 and hooked the 501 in myself, he ran it through the signal/switch tests, software download, guide download, and resets, then called in to auth programming. It's currently at P154 but I'm hoping it'll hit P165 shortly. The wonderful 80-90 signal strengths the 4000 received (119) are over 110 for the most part, too.

[DarrellP]

A couple of bugs remain but they don't affect everyone the same. Some people still have back-to-back timer issues, I don't. I sometimes get kicked back to live when browsing the EPG and try to select a show to record, others don't.

Since V154 and exchanging 2 machines, this one has been 99% stable compared to about 40% on the previous 2.

[unreg user]

Dunno if anyone noted this bug in P154:

Choose ch 9500 Instant Weather and watch it.
Hit Search -- search for something that will find a result
Pick one of the results and hit INFO. It won't display the info.

If you were on a normal channel and did the search/info procedure, it will display the info.

[rjl]

Anyone know where to find some screne shote of the 508's timer page?