Now I really want the download!!..........If I have another reciever powered up on the same dish (Quad E) will that effect the download, or do I have to make sure that all receivers are on stand-by? (does each receiver power each port or are they somehow connected?)
Thanks for your patience, one day I will be able to answer some of these questions and give the regular contributers a break (and a chuckle)
got my new 78 code & i do notice one thing upfront.
I have my clock set to "enable" in the "clock on standby" section.
Before it would be about 10 minutes before the clock would come back after changing chanells or viewing the guide. Now since the 78 code the clock comes back after a minute......very nice.
Lets hope the lockups are a thing of the past now.
Got my 78 update last night. Confirming the clock comes back about 30 seconds after changing channels. Time will tell on the lockups.
Anyone know what bugs have been addressed with the new code?
It could be coincidence, but the PQ on the Weather Network Ch 398 seems somewhat improved. It was typically the worst on the system (very low vertical resolution).
Got my 78 update last night. Confirming the clock comes back about 30 seconds after changing channels. Time will tell on the lockups.
Anyone know what bugs have been addressed with the new code?
It could be coincidence, but the PQ on the Weather Network Ch 398 seems somewhat improved. It was typically the worst on the system (very low vertical resolution).
Lockups were certainly common on the 500 until the most recent code this week.
The 530 code was branched from that over a year ago and is now many generations tighter and is so far beyond what the 500 is now that lockups are not part of the vocabularly.
Under extremely abusive operating conditions, it can be a bit finiky, but I don't recall any crashes for the past several months.
Later this year, the very stable code from the 530 will find it's way into the 500, and then 500 owners will finaly get things like caller ID, 12 hour clock and display dimming among the stability improvements.
carl033, given what you observed, I think it's not a coincidence, most french channels are ugly but since the upgrade they seem visibly better for most; there's still a few that look like bad VHS with random stutter though (watch 751 to see what I mean).
Well, I guess I'm just going to have to wait for it to force the upgrade because it did not upgrade again last night. The thing is, I have the unit on at midnight through 2:30 - 3:00 AM here watching things. I'm not going to turn it off so it can update the software whenever.
I'll never unserstand the way software upgrades are done like this or even the IPG data. Many people must be watching TV during these hours (late night people like me, people who work shiftwork, etc.). Just because an update is set for midnight or 1:00 AM doesn't mean we are all tucked into our beds for the night.
There should be an option to change the time when the unit is to update IPG data and upgrade software according to viewer habits.
Lockups were certainly common on the 500 until the most recent code this week.
The 530 code was branched from that over a year ago and is now many generations tighter and is so far beyond what the 500 is now that lockups are not part of the vocabularly.
Under extremely abusive operating conditions, it can be a bit finiky, but I don't recall any crashes for the past several months.
That's interesting. I'm trying to figure out what an extremely abusive situation would be though. The machine is used for recording and playback. What sort of abusive action could make the machine lock-up, or act finicky?
It's good that the 530 code was designed with better testing in place so that users are not faced with a machine that was quite expensive, and does not work.
It appears as though the CPU in the machine is slow if it cannot handle instantaneous commands like that. The PVR I have now is somewhat like that too. It doesn't lock-up or crash, but it just ignores your commands if you send too many at once.
When I get my machine, I will be stress testing it to see if the machine is within my tolerence level of how it should "reasonably" work. I will check it out over the initial 9 or 10 days and if I find it really buggy or it's locking up every 5 minutes, I will then need to make a decision to keep it or send it back. I guess that's really all we can do.
If your going to compare the 530 against your current DVR, make it a fair comparison by ensuring it does HiDef. That alone makes it 4 times tougher.
By all means check it out.
I'd be surprised if hundreds of testers over the past several months thought it wasn't good enough to put the SC name on it.
Compared to competative units that came before it, their initial bug list was quite a monster.
For the 530, more like a few reminder notes on a napkin for the next release in a month or 2.
You know what is funny about that? I got the 78 update last night. Tonight, I changed a channel and the receiver locked up. First time this has ever happened. So I get the new code and it introduces lock ups?
PQ is decidedly better on some channels. Also, that annoying freeze/studder video problem when viewing HD programming on the analog receiver ports is gone!
I did get one freeze-up when changing channels using the up-down button. But after a reset (a good idea when a new code is received), no further problems.
Probably not a bad idea.
If it seems to be acting a bit funny, get on the phone with SC and have them step you through a factory reset and then ask for a 'trip'
Sometime old settings need to get 'flushed' after new code comes out.
That often smartens things up a bit.
The channel bounce is gone when using the last ch button - now that's a good thing
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