Does anyone remember Turbo-Tune?

a quick google: "My previous Hughes receiver had so-called Turbo Tune, where I could hit "Select" to display a 3x3 grid of my favorite channels and jump to one of them."

Doug Brott said:

I seem to remember a feature called Turbo-Tune from a number of years back. I'm just not certain what it was about. Do any of you folks remember? Is this a feature that would be interesting for the HR2x?

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My old Hughes receivers had Turbo-Tune. You could setup 9 of your favorite channels for quick access by pressing the Select button, then use the arrow to select 1 of the 9 channels, then press Select again. Accessing the center channel was really fast...just press the Select button twice! I thought this was a great feature...too bad it did not carry over into the Directv-branded receivers.

Doug Brott said:

I seem to remember a feature called Turbo-Tune from a number of years back. I'm just not certain what it was about. Do any of you folks remember? Is this a feature that would be interesting for the HR2x?

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Certainly sounds familiar, but that is about all the further my brain takes me...Do you recall any more about what it was or did?

Great feature for a receiver but, to me, rather useless for a DVR.

mcbeevee said:

My old Hughes receivers had Turbo-Tune. You could setup 9 of your favorite channels for quick access by pressing the Select button, then use the arrow to select 1 of the 9 channels, then press Select again. Accessing the center channel was really fast...just press the Select button twice! I thought this was a great feature...too bad it did not carry over into the Directv-branded receivers.

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Thanks, I was getting a head ache trying to remember

VOS beat me to is but I also found this via a quick visit to google:

Use Turbo Tune to quickly navigate through your favorite nine channels

As far as whether or not I'd use it? Personally probably not since I can just change the channel in the same number of button presses or less.

ETA: I'm very slow today, several people beat me to the punch.....

http://www.directv.com/learn/pdf/System_Manuals/Mitsubishi/Mitsubishi_SR-HD5.pdf

page 5-3

Sirshagg said:

Great feature for a receiver but, to me, rather useless for a DVR.

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It was a great feature. Why would it be a bad thing for a dvr? I'm not always watching something that I recorded or always recording something so this would be a good thing I think.

Sirshagg said:

Great feature for a receiver but, to me, rather useless for a DVR.

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I would tend to agree ... but ... it may be useful when live surfing with the DLB workaround IF the 3x3 channel grid stayed on screen and the full-screen channel changed while you moved around the grid.

jodyguercio said:

It was a great feature. Why would it be a bad thing for a dvr? I'm not always watching something that I recorded or always recording something so this would be a good thing I think.

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Just my personal $.02 here... If I'm watching live TV (with the possible exception of live events) I'm not using the DVR the way it should be used.

OK, I’ll see your $0.02 and raise you by $0.02! Do you never channel surf? We do. In fact, we often have two things recording and watch a third program live (I have an extra H20 in the HT cabinet).

rudeney said:

OK, I'll see your $0.02 and raise you by $0.02! Do you never channel surf? We do. In fact, we often have two things recording and watch a third program live (I have an extra H20 in the HT cabinet).

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My definition of channel surfing has changed with the DVR. For me channel surfing is now browsing through the guide looking for things I want to record in the coming hours, days, or weeks. This is generally done while watching something already recorded (in the PIG) that I'm only partially interested in or that I don't mind diving my attention from.

It's fairly rare that I watch live TV and when I do it's almost exclusively during times of the year when new programming is not on (now).

When I do watch live TV it' because there is nothing in my playlist I feel like watching. Because of my previous channel surfing (my definition) certainly anything currently showing on my favorite channels would already be in my to-do list so turbo tune would not help me (it's limited to 9 channels). At this point in time I generally need to expand the number of channels I browse not constrict them.

As I recall, it wasn't nine channels that you set yourself, but the Hughes receiver remembered the channels that you tuned to most and put them in the turbo tune grid..... unless that wasn't turbo tune but a different feature that the Hughes receiver also had.

cartrivision said:

As I recall, it wasn't nine channels that you set yourself, but the Hughes receiver remembered the channels that you tuned to most and put them in the turbo tune grid..... unless that wasn't turbo tune but a different feature that the Hughes receiver also had.

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On the Mitsubishi HD5 I used to have you setup the channels - but I only used this box OTA and never had it connected with DirecTv if that makes a difference.

That's exactly right.

I have two old Hughes E-11 receivers in service at this very moment (Kitchen & Office) with that feature. It is a 3x3 grid accessed by pressing select and it is made up of your most frequently watched channels.

Of course, since I leave the box on the last channel I watched overnight and never turn the boxes off this got a little weird sometimes but not a bad feature.

I honestly never used it that much though. It was as easy to key in the number since I knew the numbers for my favorite channels anyway. Since the old Hughes only accept 3-digit channle numbers you didn't even have to press enter for most channel changes.

Quite a useful feature-- a 3x3 grid where you could assign the stations as you wished. It made channel changing very easy. I would like to have it again,even with the DVR. Also the ability to schedule. I might be watching something (while it is recording?) but want to switch to the beginning of a sporting event without having to keep watching the clock.

I LOVED turbo tune on my old Hughes E-86. I used it for Sunday Ticket. I'd setup all the games in the grid and I'd have super quick access to go from game to game.

I do something similar now by setting a favorite list to the games and use the blue button mini guide to flip around. But it's not the same and not nearly as quick.

I would love to have a turbo tune quick grid back. Maybe as a widget someday?

I'd catagorize this as "neat", but I never used the feature on my Hughes Tivo that I had.