Giude not that much faster with 6.3?

wipeout said:

I have two HD-DTivos with the new software. I must say I expected the guide to be real fast after the upgrade but I'm disappointed. The guide is still somewhat sluggish. What to y'all think?

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My guide is much faster. It's not instantanious like the R-15 but it's pretty close. Big improvement. And I like the folders too.

Mine's not all that much faster.

And 3 crashes in 2 days isn't all that helpful either.

Mine is much much faster. No issues either. It really solidifies the HD Tivo as the best entertainment device I have ever owned. It was good before but I love folders and the navigation speed up was very welcome.

I can schedule recordings on the HR10 now in a matter of seconds as opposed to minutes with 3.1.x. That's a huge improvement and was long overdue IMO.

scheduling recordings and "Keep until" are definitely much improved.

chrisfowler99 said:

scheduling recordings and "Keep until" are definitely much improved.

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Agreed.

Slowest guide I have seen ever and no real improvement with the upgrade! Compared to any other receiver such as the Motorola that Comcast gives you, or any of Dish's, receivers it is dog slow. Is there an explanation for this?

And, does it have to cover the whole picture, can't the picture be put somewhere while navigating the guide?

Also, can't it just autotune as opposed to have to set a recording? Sometimes you just want the channel to change and not record.

Overall it is a great receiver, but some of the quirks need to be worked out. Probably will not happen since there is a replacement for it already.

wipeout said:

I have two HD-DTivos with the new software. I must say I expected the guide to be real fast after the upgrade but I'm disappointed. The guide is still somewhat sluggish. What to y'all think?

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The HDD crashed on my HR10 about three weeks before the 6.3 came out and D* sent me a refurb replacement and out of the box the guide was much faster than it was on my original factory new unit.

I wondered if D* was tweeking the referbs or if they just cleaned up all the trash hanging out on them.

When I got the 6.3 I really didn't see any improvement in guide speed but I had already seen a tremendous improvement with the refurb unit.

J C

My HR10 was very slow before the update, taking over 5 minutes to make a change to a Season Pass. On October 18th I did a "Clear and Delete Everything" then didn't use it again until 6.3a installed on October 23rd.

After 6.3a it was significantly faster, I put back some of the Season Passes from before, there had been 59 but now I'm back to just 28. Most of the others were for old shows that no longer exist. Now it is slowing down, the guide is no longer as snappy as before and changing an SP is now taking 10 seconds, still much better than before but not good.

I do notice that "Search by Title" in "Find Programs to Record" is sluggish now, but I'll accept that sacrifice to overall speed.

My guide was much faster after the update. I've noticed that it seems slower now than it was right after the update, but it's still much better than before.

durl said:

My guide was much faster after the update. I've noticed that it seems slower now than it was right after the update, but it's still much better than before.

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Wow... I'm amazed that anybody is complaining that the guide after the update isn't significantly faster. I mean it's like day and night. Now maybe if you have used other boxes then the guide may be slower in comparison but compared to the guide speeds before the update and after as I said it's like night and day.

Also I have read that the DirecTV style guides are still a bit slow but I never use that guide style. I only use the Tivo style guides and they are incredibly faster. Makes this older unit much more capable.

Mine has been faster over all also, switch to the Tivo style guide if you haven't already.

Mine is much faster also, on both my units.

Wolffpack said:

Mine is much faster also, on both my units.

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When I was running 6.3, I found it to be significantly faster. But, like all Tivos, it will slow down a bit as time goes on.

bwaldron said:

When I was running 6.3, I found it to be significantly faster. But, like all Tivos, it will slow down a bit as time goes on.

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I must disagree with that. I've got 5 SDTivos running 6.2 for over a year and haven't noticed any slow down on itheir speed.

Wolffpack said:

I must disagree with that. I've got 5 SDTivos running 6.2 for over a year and haven't noticed any slow down on itheir speed.

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Is your HR10 running 6.3 now as fast as the SD Tivos? Even immediately after the update mine was noticably slower. Even so it is still "night and day" compared with 3.1.5, just that I would prefer my days to be sunny instead of overcast.

Wolffpack said:

I must disagree with that. I've got 5 SDTivos running 6.2 for over a year and haven't noticed any slow down on itheir speed.

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Yeah, the slowdown over time has always been more noticable on the HD unit. My two HDVR2s are not quite as fast as when first upgraded to 6.2, but it's hardly noticable.