SC 317 guide hours?

[Clancy]

Could someone tell me what the SC 317 advanced guide hours are at present.
Thanks.

 

[hiker]

317 should be the same as my 505 with ver E0 and is 3 days of guide data.

 

[Clancy]

Thanks hiker for your reply.
I just got off the phone talking with a CSR at Star Choice and they told me that in April of next year is the schedule to increase the advance guide time.
Two days with some models and 3 days with other models is just poor advance planning for a guide in my opinion for present day receivers.
So are infra red remotes. Should all be UHF addressable remotes.

 

[Jumbo Dumbo]

The amount of Guide data is limited by the memory in Legacy receivers.

There is supposed to be 2 guide streams next April. The present one for Legacy receivers + new one for 217/317 (7 days) and 505/530 (14 days)

 

[Clancy]

Thank you Jumbo Dumbo.
Memory doesn't cost that much that it couldn't have been in the receiver in the beginning of the planning stages and manufacturing of the present day receivers.
Just another instance of poor upper management decisions.
Heck, we don't want to make it too good for the end user.

 

[TJ_77]

The new receivers have tons of memory, which is why the guide will be extended.. The legacys don't because nothing did at that time, so they have to have a separate data stream for them.