Hoping to catch all Old/New Bugs in this thread. Also, problems that are not bugs but are a nuisance and last new requests for the software.
If you're having OTA mapping problems, send an email to wilth@optonline.net with the following information: your name, address, with zipcode, and phone number.
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Problems
Problems fixed or about to be fixed
Feature Requests
If you're having OTA mapping problems, send an email to wilth@optonline.net with the following information: your name, address, with zipcode, and phone number.
Who's Wilt? Read Here
Problems
- Pixelation after each channel changes. This has been reported using DVI/Component Input (this is a known issue and it's been worked on).
- If I press forward button, I get bottom PG guide. After pressing the yellow button (favorite), I expect to browse only my favorite list. It does not happen. It does not stay in my favorite list.
- Back or recall button does not work when one of the channels happens to come from OTA (One day it works another day it does not. Very unusual behavior.).
- Online guide briefly pops up on its own (Turning off Screen Saver will cure this behavior)
- Selecting ALL HD channels does not include OTA channels providing HD programming. Starz-HD not yet on ALL HD.
- There are no programs of this type (Favorite list bug)
- Analog sound problems.
- Change to a local ota channel. Go to edit your favorite list. The preview menu will default to channel 100 and not the local channel you were watching in the preview window. It should have stayed with the same channel. The same does not happen while watching a non-ota channel.
- PG information dissapears and reappears at will (turn off screen saver)
- Picture is lost while chaning channels and a black screen comes
- After you have created a favorite list. Let's say you want to take out a channel from your favorite list. You go to the favorite list and take out. Press Watch to continue watching the program. Then press favorite list button to bring the PG of the favorite list. After that hit the "Page" key in the remote control to navigate the PG upwards. What will follow is this screen:
There are no programs of this type
You can't get rid of it until you turn off the receiver. That is you won't be able to navigate your favorite list upwards until you turn off/on the receiver. The same does not happen with the ALL Channel list. - Here's another bug: Change to a local ota channel. Go to edit your favorite list. The preview menu will default to channel 100 and not the local channel you were watching in the preview window. It should have stayed with the same channel. The same does not happen while watching a non-ota channel.
- Bug: My power on default changed (for the second time, first since factory reset followed by front panel reset). Now an OTA station 66-1, spanish.
- When changing channels sometimes you get a black screen without picture. You can still hear the sound but no picture. I usually click on the VOOM button or FAV button and the picture will come back in the preview (small) window. Then I hit the WATCH button and the picture will come back.
- There are several bugs in the Parental Control feature.
1. If an HD channel is locked and you navigate to it from an SD channel, after unlocking, the HD channel becomes squeezed to 4:3.
2. Digital sound output is not blocked on locked channels. Only analog sound output gets blocked.
3. Sometimes after unlocking a channel, the channel gets locked the moment you switch to another channel. Sometimes it stays unlocked. - -If I use the back function on my remote when in the channel menu, it takes my receiver all the way back to the top level menu.
-The page button does not always page forward, sometimes it even pages back wards.
-The small picture that appears at top right in the menu screen, is usually out of sync (black bar in center, picture split in half), especially if it is a SD picture. I have not seen this happen from a HD source. - Tune to one of the following channels: 204, 206, 226, 229, 261, or 262 (any channel with 1309.375 frequency).
2. Using the usual "9-8-8" trick, get to the hidden menu (where you do factory resets).
3. Select the first menu item "manual tuning."
(For a moment you will see "Left_Horiz" polarity selected, and then the check-mark will jump to "Right_Ve". I believe this is a bug itself: It looks like most of the VOOM's channels are set to "Right_Ve" polarity, except for these select channels, which are set to "Left_Horiz" polarity, but the program doesn't show that.)
4. Without changing anything, highlight the "Tune" button and press "OK". A wrong channel will be shown! For example, channel 261 may show HDN, channel 206 may show Discovery, etc.
5. To restore the proper channel mapping, select "Left_Horiz" and then "Tune" again. Also, if you change the channel with your remote, it may restore itself. - On some SD channels, I notice some heavy white scratches appearing a lot. Some Sd channels are fine, other have this problem. Not sure how to explain, but they are about 1-2 pixels tall, and 10-15 wide, and are very frequent on brighter colors like solid green and red. I've never seen anything like this before.
- Also, when changing channels, I occasionally get a temporary message saying you cannot purchase this Pay-per-view, and then the channel picture comes on.
- When you go to Voom and then pick your guide... there somehow needs to be an option to start from the channel you are currently at. Starting at 100 everytime doesn't seem to be very good.
And for some reason.. if I go to a music channel, the back button doesn't do anything. It doesn't take me to the last channel I was at. - I tried to use my closed caption last night on sd channels and I can't get them to enable.
Problems fixed or about to be fixed
- Periodic Lockups (fixed with latest software)
- DD5.1 sound drops on some channels (fixed with latest software)
- Channel Mapping problems. (fixed for some)
- Sub-channel mapping (fixed for some)
- After doing Factory Reset Procedure the Box resolute to 720p
- Loud THUMP not just in my subwoofer but coming from all home theater speakers. Heard on Monsters-HD, Epics-HD and Cinema-HD (Fixed)
Feature Requests
- Scan feature for OTA mapping (Will be coming soon)
- Context sensitive guides that know what channel you are on. The guides don't start from where you are, they start from top of favorites or 100 depending which guide. This can't be too hard to fix.
- Discrete power on and off codes for programmable remotes
- A "-" key for direct entry of subchannels. Also important for remotes which can jump to specific stations (e.g., MX-800, Pronto, etc.)
- Search Feature for the PG (by name or partial name).
- Besides all Channels and all HD, can you also add an All Local Menu or Program Guide.
- It will great to have more than one favorite list but I do not know to what extend this is possible.
- A reminder or switch channel feature of the program that is about to start.
- program guide that you can jump to a day/time slot directly.
- If you can change the resolution from the control remote instead of having to manually hit the "Red" button in front of the receiver.
- allow preview window to optionally change with the channel change, or
stay on channel that is being watched. - it would be nice to be able to unlock a channel (or all the channels) for a specified number of hours.
- Transparent menus/guide. This is my main issue, and I'm 100% shocked that it isn't a feature. I have never heard one word about it, so assumed it would be transparent.This is going to burn into my TV without a doubt. There's no stopping it at this point because the solid yellow letters, symbols, and the very solid black line.
Quicker channel changes: Changing the channel takes 2.5-4 seconds everytime. I see a grey screen while waiting, then it comes down, there is also slight pixelation on movement for the instant the channel comes on.
Guide change 1: When looking further down in time, when I want to see another channel at the future time, I shouldn't need to manually go there everytime for each seperate channel. If I'm in future time and press up/down, it should not go back to current time.
Guide change 2: Manually enter channels in the one line guide. If I try to enter a channel # to look at by typing it in... it goes to that channel instead of just bringing the guide there.
Guide change 3: Quicker scrolling through the one line guide... I get about 3/second. That is way too slow considering I can't manually enter in the channel # I'd like to see on the guide. If you hold it down it should zoom through them at a much faster pace.
SD change: There are only two options for watching SD content on widescreen TVs. Stretch and pillarbox... there should be a crop mode(pan and scan) for watching SD letterboxed movies, or for those that don't mind losing the top and bottom of the image.
Remote: An exit button... I hate pressing back 4-5 times to get from the menus back to watching TV. On D* I press exit at any time, from any menu, and I'm back to watching TV without any graphics on the screen. I like that a lot.
Guide: A quicker way to get to the 5 line guide... as of now you need to press the voom/blue button, and then select all channels, or just HD etc... there should be a single button to bring you to the last used one, or just to all channels, or have it selectable which one you want it to go to from a menu.
Guide: Whole screen guide... the biggest one I can find is 5 lines, and with the page +/- button it does move quickly, but a full screen option would be nice.
Remote/info button: When watching TV, there are TONS of ways to get the one line guide to come up, so pressing info once should give you the info of the show you're on, or currently at on the guide. You shouldn't need to press it to bring up the one line guide, then another time to see the program description.
shortcuts on the remote: IE: on my D* remote, I press action 8 to change the stretch mode without going into menus. This would be a nice feature to have. - you sohuld be able to hit back to go back to the channel you are currently on, and if you hit back when already on that channel, it should take the guide to the last channel you were watching.
- I think the VOOM program guide needs an overhaul. When surfing I'd like to know more about the program than the single line description offers currently. Now it gives you channel and title plus a not too accuratie indication of whether the show is HD or not. I'd request that the stop time be included, program duration, rating, and if a program is a repeat or if a sporting event is live.
- when you bring up the guide I wish it would start on the channel your currently viewing, rather than starting with 100. Also I wish there were channel lists that you could create, (like directv, and Dish have) so that when you change the channel manually using the channel up or down button, it would scroll only those channels that you have selected to be on those specific lists. Oh, and It isn't all that great that when you turn off the box, and turn it back on it always starts at 100, it would be better if stayed on the last channel watched.
