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I can't remember what platform I'm on..
lol.
How does one know?

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It's difficult for customers to tell these days! Manchester is a Bromley region (well, three Bromley regions actually!)

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Ah. Thanks for that.
:)

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ta. :)

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Is Peterborough under Bromley? Coz Cambridge (not that far from Peterborought) is Langley.

Was just wondering.

Re: Begun, this Virginercation Has [Firmware Review!]
 

meh so the only feature i really used (changing order of channels) has gone, i hope i get the update as late as possible :(

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Yes, Peterborough is Bromley despite Cambridge being Langley!

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Historically cos we were a Cable and Wireless area before being NTL

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UK2 code downloaded to my Samsung 2100C STB this morning.

As already mentioned Coventry (Langley), Ashford (Bromley), and Basildon (Knowsley - Telewest) are being used as the pilot areas for each platform.

The code is generally faster. It uses ex-Telewest menus and I believe I am correct in saying that the underneath code (the code that does all the processing and is not visible to the user) is ntl software because a lot of work was done on the 3.2 version of the software to speed it up. Because it is using ex-Telewest code for the user 'front end' there is only 1 days TV Guide information. I am guessing that this may also be because under ntl CR3 software, when you wanted to view more than 24hours in advance, the STB would automatically switch to channel 400 previously channel 7 (TV On Demand preview) because the Guide data was stored on the same multiplex as the On Demand service. There was only enough room for the current day's information on the normal multiplex for it. I hope I have explained that OK.

I am a bit disappointed because I thought that the TV Guide would be a rolling 24hours eg. if one was view it at 7pm, it would show the information to 7pm the following day, but it only goes up to 5.30 am the following day.


I have played around with the favourites and one can select the channels they want to be in their favourites selection and by choosing option 8 under the Guide (Home?) menu, you will only get the programme information for your favourite channels. I tried setting the channels in an order that I would like eg 101 BBC One, 105 Five, 922 Classic FM, 927 talkSPORT, 521 British Eurosport, 602 Sky News, but it orders them in strict numerical order. It is a pity that when one is watching TV and pressing Channel Up/Down it will go through all the channels rather than just those in your favourites menu, but has already mentioned by quadplay etc, it will skip unsubscribed channels and also when you set your favourite channels, any unsubscribed channels are not shown.

I suspect we will have to wait some time for a revision to this code (Version 3.5) to have the favourites as we want them.

One thing I found slightly confusing - if you select the favourites option on the remote or press red when the Mini-Guide is displayed, you get the list of your favourite channels plus the programme information for the channel that is highlighted at the same time next to it - ie. you dont have to right arrow to display the information. The first time I did this, I thought that it was showing the wrong information. :dunce:

I won't comment further because Chris Howell has already given an excellent review.


Michael

Re: Begun, this Virginercation Has [Firmware Review!]
 

Sorry - just clarifying a point here. At the moment, my favourites are sorted into the order I like. This means that using the Channel up and down scrolls through the channels in my chosen order. It also means that the TV Guide and Mini-Guide is in the same order.
Are you saying that this is not the case on the new software?

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Yes, I am. I am afraid you are going to be disappointed. :td:

Michael

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for once i would like the actual bromley to test something as to me it seems ashford always gets it.

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Well - not too bad. I tend to use the mini guide rather than the tv guide anyway, but certainly it would make senses for this revision to be done as soon as technically possible. If you have carefully sorted the order - you want the programmes to appear in the same order whereever.

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Aah, i see. Didn't even think about that