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Originally Posted by passingbat
Hopefully it is the underpowered processor (5 years + old?) that is causing the problem, and an up-to-date processor that the V6 presumably has will be fine with the same software.
Forum feedback on here, from those with the V6, so far, suggests that is the case.
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I'm not convinced by the "under-powered processor" argument.
The "Play Recording" operation worked perfectly fine 5 years ago and there's bog all CPU processing to be done during this. Similarly the "exit menu to TV" operation used to be fine too.
The apps such as Netflix and the iPlayer are an area where perhaps the hardware probably is not quite up to it but it could equally just be poorly written software on top of a poor platform and even then it's generally just the load times I find to be sluggish. Genuinely not sure what's to blame here.
However I'd still like to know what software updates have there been where features have been added that would cause the play operation to slow down? Is the "play" operation doing so much more than it was 5 years ago?
If it's a memory issue then the question needs to be asked....how long before the V6's memory gets filled up by whatever is filling up the current boxes? Upgraded hardware will always make poor software appear to be "fixed" but it's only temporary.
I'd not be saying this is during one software update it had been announced that we now had access to the "New Advanced Play Option" or the "Exit Menu +" or even if there had been sweeping changes to the platform as almost every advance in software functionality has a cost in resources. Instead we've got Series Link+ which while being a valuable feature seems to be at the cost of everything else and isn't exactly one of a raft of major changes....it's pretty much the only major change (if we don't count the pictures in On Demand)
It's all to easy to point to the hardware being 5 years old, it's a cop out to cover up a really dodgy software platform, I'd give the V6 a year before it slows down or until the next update....which ever comes first.