R15 getting flaky on me

[monetnj]

I've had my R15-500 a few months now and up until the last couple of weeks my only issues were it didn't want to start up one day necessitating physically pulling the plug and with the SL first-run problems with the Simpsons, Mythbusters and CSI. Things are starting to change for the worse. It was in standby mode last night and recording Extras on HBO. I tried turning it on and it immediately gave me the prompt to "keep, stop and delete" etc. I told it to keep recording and the prompt kept coming back in an endless loop. I decided to leave it alone and let it finish recording. It did come back to life after it was done.

Later on, the wife put on HGTV and saw something she liked and tried to back up in the live buffer to see it again. She couldn't figure out the remote to do it. The trickplay buttons are just way too small and in the wrong place on the remote. The hand naturally gravitates to the center and those big buttons. I took the remote and backed up and hit play. Nothing happened. The picture was stuck and wouldn't move no matter what I did. Had to switch to another channel and back again, losing the built up live buffer on her show. This, of course, did not make her happy.

In the last couple of weeks, I have also seen issues with black screen on play back of pre-recorded shows and fast forwarding without updating the current relative position in the time bar at the bottom. On the other hand, it hasn't missed taping any of my shows, just made them something of a pain to watch later. The net effect is that instead of liking this thing more and more as I get know it, I am liking it less and less. It really gives me pause to think of replacing my two HR10-250s with HR20s. I know I'll have to do it soon to watch my Mets in HD on SNY, but this experience hasn't given me great confidence in the ability of D* to design a competent DVR.

[Mrpalmer420]

Do you have the new software (10FA). If so i ve noticed that the First run problem has been fixed for the most case. i tape Dirty Jobs and now it is doing just the Tuesday new episode. My only complaint is that for some reason it is not recognizing the Friday episode of "The Soup " as new and is instead recording the tuesday re reun. Anyone know why this would be?

As with the remote. All remotes I've ever had either have the select button or the numbers in the middle. my last one for all had the Trickplay buttons all the way on the bottom which is much more annoying then on top. Any remote like this will just take some getting used to. My wifwe got very unhappy because just when she finally figured out all the functions on my One for all i upgraded to the R15 and now she has to learn a brand new remote.

[monetnj]

Do you have the new software (10FA). If so i ve noticed that the First run problem has been fixed for the most case. i tape Dirty Jobs and now it is doing just the Tuesday new episode. My only complaint is that for some reason it is not recognizing the Friday episode of "The Soup " as new and is instead recording the tuesday re reun. Anyone know why this would be?

As with the remote. All remotes I've ever had either have the select button or the numbers in the middle. my last one for all had the Trickplay buttons all the way on the bottom which is much more annoying then on top. Any remote like this will just take some getting used to. My wifwe got very unhappy because just when she finally figured out all the functions on my One for all i upgraded to the R15 and now she has to learn a brand new remote.

I have 10FA. The Tivo remote has the trickplay buttons in the middle and separated by enough space to make selection easier. When you have the D* one balanced in your hand, you can't use your thumb to easily run the trickplay buttons. I end up using my index finger and it feels awkward. Plus, the buttons are bunched awfully close together. Too me, this is not a good design.