Bromley upgrade starting.... - Page 4

ntl_helper · 28-07-2005, 13:31

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Originally Posted by andyl

At the risk of sounding a saddo, will another benefit be ability to adjust volume with the NTL remote? It's bad enough trying to find one remote let alone two when you've got nippers in the house so this would be a welcome move!

You are quite right, the volume buttons now work.

ntl_helper · 28-07-2005, 14:03

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Originally Posted by Wicked_and_Crazy

and fix the problem with the STB where it doesnt send the AV switch signal when you turn it on if the channel is in Widescreen mode

There are fixes for aspect ratio signalling issues in this release. We follow the Digital TV Group standard (originally defined by the BBC) which has been adopted by the industry, although there will be a relatively small number of TV's that do not follow this standard and therefore will not work.
After receiving the new download if your TV is not behaving consistently to your preference, go to Settings/Visual Settings/3. Scart AV control is... and switch the feature OFF. This will then require you to manually press your AV button on your normal TV remote when you turn your TV on.

ellie · 28-07-2005, 16:19

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Originally Posted by andyl

At the risk of sounding a saddo, will another benefit be ability to adjust volume with the NTL remote? It's bad enough trying to find one remote let alone two when you've got nippers in the house so this would be a welcome move!

That's not sounding like a saddo bcos it is soooo annoying that the volume change doesnt work

..will be cool when it does work

spiderplant · 28-07-2005, 16:48

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Originally Posted by Wicked_and_Crazy

and fix the problem with the STB where it doesnt send the AV switch signal when you turn it on if the channel is in Widescreen mode

Yeah, it's fixed.

jonifen · 29-07-2005, 11:33

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Originally Posted by ellie

That's not sounding like a saddo bcos it is soooo annoying that the volume change doesnt work

..will be cool when it does work

On our old pace box we were given a shiny new remote which we could link with the TV so it controlled the volume on the actual TV rather than on the STB - worked a treat (until the kids got hold of the remote and removed the batteries when bored). The samsung remote does the same in that you can link it to the TV to control that - meaning only need 1 remote. I quite like it like that really.

hutchy · 04-08-2005, 05:33

We got updated here in Sunderland on Monday. There doesn't really seem to be much of a speed change to anything other than the tv guide. most of the changes seem purely cosmetic

Tristan · 04-08-2005, 06:31

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Originally Posted by hutchy

We got updated here in Sunderland on Monday. There doesn't really seem to be much of a speed change to anything other than the tv guide. most of the changes seem purely cosmetic

Out of curiousity, what kind of box have you got? Pace or Samsung?

broomsy · 04-08-2005, 08:51

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Originally Posted by hutchy

We got updated here in Sunderland on Monday. There doesn't really seem to be much of a speed change to anything other than the tv guide. most of the changes seem purely cosmetic

It is alot more cosmetic. When you get the VOD software you will start noticing the speed changed

hutchy · 07-08-2005, 01:03

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Originally Posted by Tristan

Out of curiousity, what kind of box have you got? Pace or Samsung?

Pace, havent gotten round to ringing ntl to change it to samsung for the broadband speed increase yet

paul11974 · 11-08-2005, 23:19

when will BROMLEY get the BROMLEY update ........ ?

Rob2005 · 12-08-2005, 00:08

...end of the month once the trial in York is sucessfully completed.

micah56 · 12-08-2005, 00:26

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Originally Posted by Rob2005

...end of the month once the trial in York is sucessfully completed.

how is the trail getting on or cant u say?

Rob2005 · 12-08-2005, 01:06

No idea, sorry. The info was from the Cable Forum news section. Anyone in the York area care to comment on how things are going?

McYorkie · 12-08-2005, 13:11

The trial of the BU2 software seems to be going ok here in York, the software hasn't developed any major bugs or glitches, just a couple of niggles that need tweaking please ntl:

Pace box specific - off air channels show in the clear rather than behind the "off air" slide caption. This disappears after about a second and you then get the Pace 4000 thinking the channel is still broadcasting, even though there's only the Sky slide and looped minidisc music on if you catch a channel off air late on. It doesn't happen on the SMT2100c though - slide stays static and onscreen.
The favourites bug is sorted out for 2100C users, no more dropouts of channels to the end of the menu in Favourites, BUT, on both 2100c, and Pace boxes the old channel names "bug" (BBC Choice instead of BBC Three etc!) has moved across into the Reminder and Diary functions instead of being in the Favourites list.

Apart from those two bits, everything else seems fine with our SMT2100C, which is much faster, and our elderly Pace 4000 (recon) shows an improvement in EPG stability and responsiveness. It still locks up and freezes on a regular basis though, with UN400 errors on interactive sometimes too, so I don't think that can be blamed on the code - it still had to be rebooted on the old B3.1 code, usually at least once every 24 hours.

We had the same trouble the last time ntl: put a 4000 in, and that was soon swapped for our Samsung because it messed up our internet.

Overall though, It looks good for a network wide rollout - it's miles better than B3.1 For once, I think the people at ntl have got the code right. All we're waiting for now is the VOD code and we're caught up with Langley platform.

Ridge · 12-08-2005, 15:25

So When will VOD roll out in Bromley? (End of the year?)