Post by zekmoe on Mar 21, 2010 7:26:20 GMT -5
I've given it a couple of weeks, looked thru the menus trying to understand it, but I've decided I hate the updated menu software. Here's what I lost:
1) Font is smaller. Sorry, but I'm needing it just a bit larger
2) Way slower to change channels
3) when you do change, if you immediately do a menu scan up/down, to see what's on adjacent channels, the menu scans your previous stations adjacent channels. Like the channel tunes in first, but the menu has yet to catch up.
4) Scanning up/down by time is gone. I used to be able to see what's on an hour from now, but advancing the time on the station I was on, then menu channel up and down to see what's on other channels at that time. When you do that it reverts to the current time. So to see what's on at 8pm on other channels, you need to go to the menu on the channel and forward up the time. Very clumsey
5) a "Please Wait" black screen hang. It seems to get hung up and only turning it off fixes it.
6) a very long delay if you accidentally cross a channel you don't subscribe to. This is likely to call up the press on purchase menu that now displays, trying to trap you into ordering it. But it's like 10 seconds waiting for the channel display to unhang and show the BUy Me display before being able to switch away.
I swear I'm going to drop everything but what can be tuned in my my set. These boxes have made the experience unenjoyable. ANd I still miss HDNET and HDNETMovies.
1) Font is smaller. Sorry, but I'm needing it just a bit larger
2) Way slower to change channels
3) when you do change, if you immediately do a menu scan up/down, to see what's on adjacent channels, the menu scans your previous stations adjacent channels. Like the channel tunes in first, but the menu has yet to catch up.
4) Scanning up/down by time is gone. I used to be able to see what's on an hour from now, but advancing the time on the station I was on, then menu channel up and down to see what's on other channels at that time. When you do that it reverts to the current time. So to see what's on at 8pm on other channels, you need to go to the menu on the channel and forward up the time. Very clumsey
5) a "Please Wait" black screen hang. It seems to get hung up and only turning it off fixes it.
6) a very long delay if you accidentally cross a channel you don't subscribe to. This is likely to call up the press on purchase menu that now displays, trying to trap you into ordering it. But it's like 10 seconds waiting for the channel display to unhang and show the BUy Me display before being able to switch away.
I swear I'm going to drop everything but what can be tuned in my my set. These boxes have made the experience unenjoyable. ANd I still miss HDNET and HDNETMovies.
