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darita
09-30-06, 08:10 PM
Is there any way to get some kind of tone or sound when hitting buttons on the HR20 remote, like with Tivo?
PoitNarf
09-30-06, 08:15 PM
Is there any way to get some kind of tone or sound when hitting buttons on the HR20 remote, like with Tivo?

You could always make the sounds yourself!

Seriously though, this may be an option in the future are there is a sounds option in the menus that is greyed out. Personally for me, I'd go nuts if this thing started making a bunch of confirmation noises.
Vinny
09-30-06, 08:17 PM
Is there any way to get some kind of tone or sound when hitting buttons on the HR20 remote, like with Tivo?



Not now.....looks like there might someday tho. If you hit up Menu/Setup/Audio....you'll see a sound effects tab.
Vinny
09-30-06, 08:19 PM
You could always make the sounds yourself!

Seriously though, this may be an option in the future are there is a sounds option in the menus that is greyed out. Personally for me, I'd go nuts if this thing started making a bunch of confirmation noises.

I could only imagine what the sounds would be right now. I have a feeling they wouldn't be all happy little sounds.
dixoncider
09-30-06, 09:14 PM
no sound is the one thing they did right
pappys
09-30-06, 09:26 PM
I think this is one of the smaller issues on their plate right now. Let them work out the bugs, THEN they can worry about silly little noises to make you think you own a T*.

T* isn't the best, had some great ideas, now we are moving past them.
tzphotos.com
09-30-06, 11:14 PM
no sound is the one thing they did right

That was the first thing I shut off when I first started using the hr10-250.
darita
10-11-06, 09:08 AM
Sorry...looks like I'm the only one who is comforted by "Boop". It lets me know that the unit has recognized my command.
WANDERER
10-11-06, 09:18 AM
Sorry...looks like I'm the only one who is comforted by "Boop". It lets me know that the unit has recognized my command.

Nah - your not the only one who likes the sounds! I do too.:D
Capmeister
10-11-06, 09:46 AM
You could always make the sounds yourself!


:lol:
Schyler
10-11-06, 10:15 AM
Perhaps it's just that TiVo has trained me to think this way, but I really believe that sounds play an important part in a user interface. No interface responds instantaneously, and the sounds do a great job of reassuring you that your commands were received. It's the same for your phone, the ATM, a gas pump, whatever...

I can only speak for myself, of course, but the HR20's silent interface often puts my brain into a few milliseconds of "Did that keypress register?" limbo where I am uncertain if I need to hit the button again. It's not an inconvenience or anything... it just lessens the overall experience a tiny bit.

It seems like the power light flickers when you press a button, but you have to look away from the screen to see it.

I'll be happy when they eventually get sounds working, even it it's just on the analog audio. Heck, a chirp from the unit itself would even be a nice placeholder.
dervari
10-11-06, 11:37 AM
I hope they have the option to turn sounds on/off. I'd hate to be scheduling something while I'm watching something in the preview window and keep getting interrupted by bloop-bloop.....
PoitNarf
10-11-06, 11:55 AM
I hope they have the option to turn sounds on/off. I'd hate to be scheduling something while I'm watching something in the preview window and keep getting interrupted by bloop-bloop.....

I believe the general consensus is that you will be able to change the volume level of the sounds or completely mute them.
indy300
10-12-06, 10:35 AM
You could always make the sounds yourself!


This is a habit of a Tivo-trained TV watcher.

Like when you're watching a sporting event that you recorded. You're watching the last few seconds of the recording, but the game/race has several minutes left. The sound that comes up when you realized you missed the last few minutes of something great....DING!
xfidelitydj
10-12-06, 10:57 AM
This is a habit of a Tivo-trained TV watcher.

Like when you're watching a sporting event that you recorded. You're watching the last few seconds of the recording, but the game/race has several minutes left. The sound that comes up when you realized you missed the last few minutes of something great....DING!

Yeah for sure! I feel so defeated when that sound happens with minutes left in the sporting event that ran long.

Denial follows, then Anger, then remorse. If I only padded the end with a little extra time!!