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No...mlobitz said:
Does anyone read the Release Notes?
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If I shared the date, it would be the last thing I would be able to share with you all.... seriously.. Even though I am under no formal, legal, NDA, or anything like... it is more of a handshake agreement.jamielee said:
Seriously though... It isn't much longer... I know you are all are dying for it.. and I promise.. the moment I can say... you will see a thread, just like the one for eSATA.
As for sound effects... Sound Effects don't work well over Digital Audio. So right now, they have opted to keep them disabled on the unit, until they can come back to that feature and make sure it won't cause any audio issues if they are enabled.
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M vote is still Oct 13.....though that is fast approaching....:lol:Earl Bonovich said:
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Thread moves so darn fast.jamielee said:
1) No I can't say if it is going to be this month... The "Official" statement is before December 1st... but I am pretty sure it is going to be before that.
2) I did reply above... basically Sound Effects don't work well over digital audio, so they opted to disabled sound effects for now, and address it at a later time.
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Give it a rest. OTA is coming. No sense badgering Earl about it. I want it to but I haven't been able to record OTA HD for 4 years, another month or two ain't gonna kill me.jamielee said:
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I agree enough already about ota (I don't have hd locals...) Thanks for all the info you give Earl!bonscott87 said:
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It's okay... I understand the need and the desire.jamielee said:
You have to see some of the questions I hound my contacts with..
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As much as I would like to be excited about OTA and dual buffers, I just want a stable f'n software release!!!
This is UNREAL DTV... what are you guys thinking??? Are you testing this crap at all before you release it? Do your programmers actually own the units and run them thru the paces? It just baffles me that a company of this size can have these kind of software issues!!!
here are my results of the new software release so far:
First off, my recording of The Unit tonight resulted in BSOD (before the software update), then after a reboot was gone from myVOD - nice work DTV.
After forcing software update to 0xDC - and then rebooting:
right off the bat there was this issue mentioned in the release notes:
"Known Issues with release
Pixelization During FF/RW functions. Noticeable primariy in 1080i/720p MPEG4 recordings, while FF/RW the video play pixelizes. This is due to updates with the MPEG4 code (which was changed to address other issues), the pixelizing will be corrected in a future release."
They need to add that the FF/RW funtion will actually STOP working all together - and the only way to get out of it is to use the 30secskip button!!! UNBELIEVABLE
Even as I post, trying to watch the HD MPEG 4 recording of Letterman tonight, these prblems are everywhere.
WHY KEEP RELEASING "UPDATES" IF THE NET OUTCOME AND PERFORMANCE OF THE UNIT IS CONTINUALLY REGRESSIVE!!! sorry for the caps, but my patience is quickly coming to an end.
So, it's not just pixelation during FF/RW, it just plain gets stuck and will not FF or RW properly- at least for me.
This is after 2 reboots.
I will be calling DTV tomorrow, and may even be seriously considering ending my relationship with DTV all togher.
The early adopters should not be punished, for wanting to record and watch HD content, period!
And now that is out of my system, I 'm off to bed...
This is UNREAL DTV... what are you guys thinking??? Are you testing this crap at all before you release it? Do your programmers actually own the units and run them thru the paces? It just baffles me that a company of this size can have these kind of software issues!!!
here are my results of the new software release so far:
First off, my recording of The Unit tonight resulted in BSOD (before the software update), then after a reboot was gone from myVOD - nice work DTV.
After forcing software update to 0xDC - and then rebooting:
right off the bat there was this issue mentioned in the release notes:
"Known Issues with release
Pixelization During FF/RW functions. Noticeable primariy in 1080i/720p MPEG4 recordings, while FF/RW the video play pixelizes. This is due to updates with the MPEG4 code (which was changed to address other issues), the pixelizing will be corrected in a future release."
They need to add that the FF/RW funtion will actually STOP working all together - and the only way to get out of it is to use the 30secskip button!!! UNBELIEVABLE
Even as I post, trying to watch the HD MPEG 4 recording of Letterman tonight, these prblems are everywhere.
WHY KEEP RELEASING "UPDATES" IF THE NET OUTCOME AND PERFORMANCE OF THE UNIT IS CONTINUALLY REGRESSIVE!!! sorry for the caps, but my patience is quickly coming to an end.
So, it's not just pixelation during FF/RW, it just plain gets stuck and will not FF or RW properly- at least for me.
This is after 2 reboots.
I will be calling DTV tomorrow, and may even be seriously considering ending my relationship with DTV all togher.
The early adopters should not be punished, for wanting to record and watch HD content, period!
And now that is out of my system, I 'm off to bed...
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Don't let the bed bugs bite...jbstix said:
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I thought Earl was magic! Of course, I've been known to be wrong about such things. I thought frosted Lucky Charms were magically delicious, and they turned out to be, in fact, tragically malicious. I couldn't have been more mistaken, no?sigma1914 said:
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Earl deserves a beer from each of us, anyway. I work with a blog that has an associated forum and it's hard to believe how the young woman who moderates it maintains her sanity.PoitNarf said:Aye. It should become a rule that every person that asks Earl about OTA from this point on needs to buy him a beer.
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