Just wanted to say Thanks [Text View]

jgjackson

10-27-2006, 04:37 PM

fjwagner

10-28-2006, 05:07 PM

I just wanted to say thank you to everyone for documenting the 6.3 fiasco in time for me to know to pull the phone plug. Now I have one less reason to keep my land-line phone service. I am so glad I'm still at 3.1.5f. Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you. :up: :up: :up: :up:

Many of us are quite happy. Yes, I have had some dropouts, but infrequent and typically on Fox. I love the folders, faster response etc. I say go for it and dont be put off necessarily by what you read. A much higher percentage of people will post complaints than will post praise. DTV will also come through with a fix for the mostly infrequent problem (for me at least). Take a chance and live a little.

bwaldron

10-28-2006, 05:17 PM

Many of us are quite happy. Yes, I have had some dropouts, but infrequent and typically on Fox. I love the folders, faster response etc. I say go for it and dont be put off necessarily by what you read. A much higher percentage of people will post complaints than will post praise. DTV will also come through with a fix for the mostly infrequent problem (for me at least). Take a chance and live a little.

I would say the same BUT make a backup image first.

You make a valid point that we do not know what % of folks are having problems, and undoubtedly problems are over-represented here. But 6.3a does have bugs, and they are seriously impacting some people. Certainly not all.

No problem trying 6.3a, and the upgrade may work great for you...but in case it doesn't, I would plan so that I could revert to 3.1.5f if desired.

divedude

10-28-2006, 08:57 PM

videojanitor

10-28-2006, 09:40 PM

That's what's great about a forum like this. I read all the complaints about 6.3, so I made a backup image of my drive before it was installed. I'm glad I did, because my experience was exactly as many had described. I rolled back to the old version, and all is well. Had it not been for the postings here, I never would have been aware of the potential problems.

slydog75

10-28-2006, 09:41 PM

I'm perfectly happy with 6.3a. I have occasional audio dropouts but no more than I did before the upgrade from 3.5f.

az_double_eagle

10-28-2006, 10:06 PM

I've had 6.3a for about a week and now, since it had a chance to do its indexing, it is just as fast as my HDVR2.

Yes, I've had some OTA audio dropouts (just a few seconds), but the picture stutters that went along with the audio dropouts (in 3.1f) have seemed to stop.

I initially thought the HD quality was a little lower with 6.3a than 3.1f, but I was comparing that to World Series game 3 which (after reading other posters) had some funky HD transmission going on that night. Since having a chance to compare it with other HD recordings (including game 5), the HD recording quality is just fine with 6.3a!

In my opinion, having the gigantic speed increases of the ad-hoc recording (especially adding on a 1.5 hour stop recording pad for sports), as well as SP manipulations in 6.3a outweighs the brief audio droupouts by a LONG shot.

Dignan

10-28-2006, 10:32 PM

I'm glad I've waited for the upgrade. Folders aren't that big a deal for me, I just sort by name. The speed issue doesn't matter much to me now either, I have all of my season passes set, I rarely surf.

ymmv

videojanitor

10-28-2006, 10:56 PM

In my opinion, having the gigantic speed increases of the ad-hoc recording (especially adding on a 1.5 hour stop recording pad for sports), as well as SP manipulations in 6.3a outweighs the brief audio droupouts by a LONG shot.

Well, that's what makes this country great -- to each his/her own. For me, the dropouts were not brief, lasting on the order of 10 seconds. That can be a lot of dialog in some shows, and simply not acceptable (again, to me) as it ruined my enjoyment of the shows. I bought this thing to watch TV, and if it can't let me do that without being annoyed, then the speed improvement doesn't matter.

Or to put it another way, I'd rather drive a Hyundai with four good tires, than a Lexus with a flat.

Philly Bill

10-28-2006, 11:40 PM

I get some dropouts.. on OTA FOX... but its worth it for the speed. I used to wait 3 minutes after selecting to record something. :eek:

Now its like 5 seconds.

alaskahill

10-29-2006, 09:59 AM

I had an audio and video dropout that lasted 8 hours (not 8 seconds). Of course that might have been due to the 2 feet of snow we got that day that caused the power to go out, but it happened the day after I got 6.3. Personally I think 6.3 caused the snow. :D

Other than that issue I am quite happy with the speed and folders. However, I have I have forgotten what PLEASE WAIT looks like :)

khark

10-29-2006, 11:14 AM

I had been happy with the upgrade for a couple of months on one Tivo and a couple of weeks on the other. I had just as many problems with 3.whatever as 6.3. Now that I have 6.3a on both I have no way to compare but for the last week or so I have been getting blank video for a second or two with the audio not dropping out.

I am also getting weird pixilation and flashes on all of the channels that I watch. I have also had occasional audio stutters on Jeopardy (ABC-W).

This is all recorded off the satellite, I don't get any OTA.

I have no idea if this is a problem with 6.3 or just a problem with DirecTV but I doubt that it is a hard drive problem that started at about the same time on two Tivos. :confused:

Titon

10-29-2006, 05:42 PM

I just recieved my HR10-250 off of ebay. I must say that the guide and response is the worst i've ever seen. The quality of the HD recording and the OTA is fantastic and i can live without being fast.

I have to say though, with all the negative stuff about D* and it's tivo or DVR boxes are these things a total piece of crap or what? Since they want to corner the market then they should at least make the dang things functional. The list of problems is just down right scary no matter if it's the HR10-250 or there newest model. For the life of me i can't figure out why in the heck to even invest in it. But it's about all we got.

Truely truely sad.

videojanitor

10-29-2006, 05:49 PM

I just recieved my HR10-250 off of ebay. I must say that the guide and response is the worst i've ever seen.

Are you using the "grid" guide (which I believe is the default) or the "list" guide? If you're using "grid," then yes, that is so slow as to be unusable. Try the "list" guide instead -- it's not the fastest thing in the world, but tolerable (and preferable as far as usability goes in my book).

To change the mode, while the guide is on-screen, press the INFO button. Scroll down to "Style" and select "List Guide."

Philly Bill

10-29-2006, 07:19 PM

Worse? If you just got it off ebay does it have 6.3? 6.3 sped everything up just like 6.2 did. If you don't have 6.3 you can't really compare.

Titon

10-30-2006, 08:08 AM

I changed to the list guide right away. Thanks though!

Worse? If you just got it off ebay does it have 6.3? 6.3 sped everything up just like 6.2 did. If you don't have 6.3 you can't really compare

It's sitting on 3.15f i do believe. Hey i'm all for more speed. Anything would be better than this but at the present time the machine is extremely stable. Why would i choose to make it unstable by having the 6.3 installed. Like i said i can live with it being slow, i cannot live with audio dropouts, machine restarts and all the other negative stuff that is going with this upgrade.

cheesesteak

10-30-2006, 10:46 AM

I don't get OTA anything let alone Fox. I've had no problems with 6.3, at least none that I've noticed.

bwaldron

10-30-2006, 11:01 AM

I don't get OTA anything let alone Fox. I've had no problems with 6.3, at least none that I've noticed.

The no OTA is key. Glad 6.3 is working for you.

Philly Bill

10-30-2006, 12:12 PM

Why would i choose to make it unstable by having the 6.3 installed. Like i said i can live with it being slow, i cannot live with audio dropouts, machine restarts and all the other negative stuff that is going with this upgrade.

My audio drops out on Fox OTA on occassion. I've never had a restart and no other negative things. The speed increase is tremendous.

Just my thoughts but if you want 3.1f... cool. :up: