H2x/ HR2x CE's for the Last Weekend of Summer

[dfergie]

Systems in this CE
H21 • H23 • H24 • H25 • HR20 • HR21 • HR24
(all manufacturers)

Window of opportunity to download:
Friday September 19th, 2014 11:00PM - 2:30AM ET
Saturday September 20th, 2014 11:00PM - 2:30AM ET




Risk Level for this Download:
MODERATE


New features
None

Improved/Updated
Under the hood/stability

Notes
You may lose your guide cache
Please allow up to 24 hrs to restore your full 14 day guide
Your STB may restart during idle time within the first 24-48 hours of CE download
Please do not report sluggishness or missing search results within the first 12 hours
Please send logs along with all reports, including MRV issues

 

[pls]

No receiver crashes to report with this version. However, it seems that operations in the On Demand menus are very noticeably slower than before. In particular, the time required to go from the episode detail page back to the category listing is way too long. Since there is no longer a visible marker on episodes that have been downloaded, the only way to see if an episode is present on the disk is to go into the episode detail page and see if the menu has a Record entry. So this is a frequent operation and it takes way too long.

I don't understand why it takes so long. I haven't yet seen an On Demand channel/category combo that has more than 2 dozen or so entries. Surely the receiver has enough room to cache the category contents so that the full search doesn't need to be redone each time you go to an episode detail and back to the category listing.