HR20-700 CE Release - BACK ON for 2/23 ONLY.

[jcrandall]

THIS CE IS BACK ON for Saturday Night 2/23 ONLY.
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Systems in this CE / Version
HR20-700 {CE:12:02} - 0x0207

Window of opportunity to download:

PLEASE READ THIS FIRST! CE DOWNLOAD WARNINGS / AGREEMENT

PLEASE READ THIS SECOND! CE DOWNLOAD INSTRUCTIONS

If you have any issues with this CE release, please post them in this thread. We'll try to help, and DirecTV will see / be aware of your issue

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CHANGES FROM THIS RELEASE:

• 02 - Channel Banner updating immediately
• 02 - Improved Parental Controls
• 02 - Fixed ScreenSaver with MediaShare Video Playback
• 02 - Will reply to a network PING request

CHANGES FROM PREVIOUS RELEASE:

Improved

• 01 - LiveTV audio issues after stopping mediashare and no audio during slideshow
• 01 - Fast forward to true live TV viewing
• 01 - History status for VOD downloads
• 01 - Improved audio
• 01 - Stability
• 01 - GameSearch to automatically find same game on other channel if currently tuned game is blacked out and showing OSD x (This is a very cool feature...)
• 01 - Keyword search on channel or channel range and title only or name only (Geek dream feature)

 

[jcrandall]

This is a summary of the keyword search power tricks from the programmers:

Simple Grammar:
[{AANY/AALL} <tokens>] [{NNOT} <tokens>] [TTITLE/NNAME] [{CCHAN} <number> [<number>]]

BOOLEAN LOGIC:

“AALL” => (this is the AND boolean operation) all the following words must be contained within the program (title, about, name, episode, category) in any order
“AANY” => (this is the OR boolean operation) at least one of the following words must be contained within the program (title, about, name, episode, category)
“NNOT” => (this is the NOT boolean operation) exclude any programs that contain any of the following words in that search string

The AANY and AALL keywords should appear as the first word in the search string in order to set the search mode.
The NNOT keyword may appear anywhere and all words following the NNOT keyword are considered words to exclude.

SCOPE FILTERS:

TTITLE => Limits the search to only the Title field of the Programs
NNAME => Limits the search to only the Name field (e.g. Actors, Director) of the Program
CCHAN => Limits the search to only the specified channel range (example CCHAN 500 510, or CCHAN 500 for a single channel)

Some sample queries are:

AALL racing car NNOT nascar => finds all shows containing “car” and “racing” (any order/position), but excludes the show if “nascar” appears
AALL hanks tom NNOT vinci => finds all tom hanks movies/shows but excludes the movie if the word “vinci” appears (e.g. da vinci code)
AALL hanks tom NNAME => finds all tom hanks programs where he is an actor
AALL hdtv football => finds all high definition football programs (note you can include category labels in the search and “HDTV” is same as “High-Def”)
AANY usc ucla NNOT football => finds all usc and ucla events/shows, but excludes football events
oakland raiders NNOT miami => finds exact match for “oakland raiders” but excludes show if “miami” appears (e.g. excludes games with Miami Dolphins)
AANY lakers clippers CCHAN 700 730 => finds all games with the Lakers or Clippers on only channels 700 through 730
AANY lakers clippers CCHAN 710 => finds all games with the Lakers or Clippers on only channel 710

 

[jcrandall]

Cancelled For 2/22

Check Back Tommorrow For Possible Release.

 

[moonman]

Any word yet on if there will be a Sat. C/E
for the HR20-700??

 

[Jimbo]

Wow, I'm out of town and they skip the CE, hmmmm....
Really, I have nothing to do with it ...
As far as I'm concerned, they can continue NEXT week when I am back in the cold !

Jimbo

 

[jcrandall]

Just received word, the HR20 CE is BACK ON for Saturday night!

 

[Jimbo]

I guess I'll have to catch up next week....

Jimbo

 

[goaliebob99]

Yep, im catching it tonight. this darn I hope that this darn 480p bug gets fixed. Its like my DVR gets stuck in that mode and wont revert back.

Whats even more funny is that I have 480P selected as a format in the menu that the TV cant handle, Even though it can, and it still reverts to this mode.

 

[jcrandall]

I'm downloading it now, I missed last week.

I'm curiuos how well the blackout channel switcher will work.

Glad to see the bug about the channel info showing the last channel should be fixed in this version. That's been annoying.

 

[grydlok]

Got it done.

No more stuck in 480P bug.

 

[goaliebob99]

downloading it now.. we will see

 

[Brewer4]

Downloading here too. Late doing as watching CNN with Jon Stewart. Didnt see it earlier in the week.

 

[CWS_kahuna]

Downloading now, going from version 01FE to 0207. Thanks for the update.

 

[rad]

New feature added in this CE

Earl posted this info tonight in DBSTalk.Com

I got an email today, that included a minor update to the release notes.
And I don't want it to get lost in the issue threads:

The DoD download progress bar previous was based on "percentage" complete of the download.

That has now changed... it follows these rules now:

Red: It is anticipated, that playback will be interrupted before reaching the end of the program during straight playback. (Striaght playback being defined as, No TrickPlay movement... aka no FF)

Yellow: It is anticipated, that playback should not be interrupted before reaching the end of program during straight playback. However, it is "on the edge" will little margin for network errors.

Green: It is anticipated, that playback should not be interrupted before reaching the end of program during straight playback. There is a lot of margin to account for network errors.


Note: These colors are just estimates. Even at Green, there is still a small chance. Only a completely downloaded program, carries a full anticipation of no problems during playback.

I did a quick test and it looks like it's working. I have a 6Mbps line and within 30 seconds of starting a download it went to yellow and shortly there after went green.