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Originally Posted by zekeisaszekedoes
I was part of the beta testers on the fairly recent Super Hub updates. There were about 100 people, feedback was negative in most cases, no-one heeded anything posted on the forums and when VM pushed the update out it was still full of bugs and almost broken. Then I did some virtual legwork and discovered most of their recent products are done like that. My theory is they need more thorough nerds like myself who will tinker with every single option on the box and find bugs really quickly.
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What makes you think that from your little knowledge of one or two trials.
The TiVo software will have taken many months of testing and many many versions before its gotten to this public version. Also am sure there are far more than 100 people on the TiVo trial.
There are probably plenty of nerds involved and using the STB as their main box so will be using every feature and also running tests and scripts when asked to cover eveything.
Also the YouTube software not working great is nothing to do with VM as the app is created soley by Google/Youtube for the various platforms but they don't seem bothered about fixing it in a hurry.
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Originally Posted by zekeisaszekedoes
In my case that doesn't matter... on my updated 15.2 TiVo I still have the somewhat unfinished but still working version from the 15.1 software. Seems like those who push the update out in Portsmouth/Fareham headend area were smart enough to realise the new YouTube was even worse so left the old one on there untouched. I'll have to check with my friend who lives in the same area if he got the new YouTube app or not, but I'd guess the answer is no.
And from what I can tell, only if you choose Express Series Link option do you get the "1 minute earlier, 4 minutes later" default fixed padding amount. If you want regular series links with configurable options, you still can by going to Explore this show then the Get a Series Link option. I actually like this new layout because it prevents you going into the old-style TiVo menus in order to setup new Series Links... it's all done in the HD Flash overlay so you keep the PiP window in the top right while changing options.
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No reminders on the 15.2 firmware as mentioned, but I'm going to compile a comprehensive list of what has been improved and what still needs to be looked at as it applies to my particular box later on to give people upgrading an idea of what's been changed. First impressions are, massive improvement! The ethernet enabling so you can control by phone/multiroom stream is just one of a great number of noticeable changes.
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Am sure there isn't someone sat in each region choosing whether to add the new YT app or not. Its the same software for every area, it may just take longer for the app to update itself.
Why not just wait for the VM list once the rollout is complete? Surely simpler.