[Merged] CR3-Feedback & Questions in Here Please.

Originally Posted by KenK

Thanks for the reply, Proppin'. The answer is I don't know, I don't have any other RGB sources! I may have a play in a week or so; trouble is, I need to get into the engineer's menus for the TV, and I know how you feel about that sort of thing

Unless you rent your TV from ntl, then I have no issue with you playing with its engineering menus!!!!!

No, just be careful, I wouldn't advise messing with options that potentially could stop it working.

Edit : I've also noticed that my Tivo gives a more pronounced left shift than my Sky box when using RGB. Different kit seems to vary. I doubt theres any change made in the new ntl software tho, I'm not aware of any.

[richardw]

Hmmm, I assume this thread is all about my STB display stuff turning from purple to blue.

I just got "upgraded" yesterday morning (I'm in Leicester). Now my remote pretty much refuses to work at all. Very occasionally the STB will take notice of a button click on the remote, but mostly it just sits there. The LED on the front of the remote flashes as per usual (and yes, I've tried fresh batteries in it! )

Is this a horrible coincidence? Remote works OK, STB upgrades itself, remote goes to the Big Living Room in The Sky? Seems a bit far-fetched to me.

[browneggsandham]

Originally Posted by richardw

Hmmm, I assume this thread is all about my STB display stuff turning from purple to blue.

I just got "upgraded" yesterday morning (I'm in Leicester). Now my remote pretty much refuses to work at all. Very occasionally the STB will take notice of a button click on the remote, but mostly it just sits there. The LED on the front of the remote flashes as per usual (and yes, I've tried fresh batteries in it! )

Is this a horrible coincidence? Remote works OK, STB upgrades itself, remote goes to the Big Living Room in The Sky? Seems a bit far-fetched to me.

It has been said on here that the new software is not as responsive as the previous pink software.
I doubt very much your remote is the problem, although it may seem like it. I reckon it's all down to the software, hence why a change of batteries didn't help.

Browneggsandham

[IanGuy]

It seemed very terrible to me too, but a change of batteries DID fix my problem.

[richardw]

Oh well, enough power cycling and judicious use of the magic 2-finger salute seemed to fix it.

Originally Posted by richardw

Oh well, enough power cycling and judicious use of the magic 2-finger salute seemed to fix it.

A few people have said that power cycling the box a few times has improved its responsiveness, I can't see how tho?

[SMHarman]

Originally Posted by richardw

Hmmm, I assume this thread is all about my STB display stuff turning from purple to blue.

I just got "upgraded" yesterday morning (I'm in Leicester). Now my remote pretty much refuses to work at all. Very occasionally the STB will take notice of a button click on the remote, but mostly it just sits there. The LED on the front of the remote flashes as per usual (and yes, I've tried fresh batteries in it! )

Is this a horrible coincidence? Remote works OK, STB upgrades itself, remote goes to the Big Living Room in The Sky? Seems a bit far-fetched to me.

What did I say to towny in post 274?

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...&postcount=274

[monkey2468]

If you have a phase 1 stb these only have 4mb of memory (i think) so it maybe slow for this reason and rebooting would help as it will free up mamory, especially if you use guide and interactive a lot!

If not, ring faults and they will get a tech out to it!

[spiderplant]

Originally Posted by monkey2468

If you have a phase 1 stb these only have 4mb of memory (i think) so it maybe slow for this reason and rebooting would help as it will free up mamory, especially if you use guide and interactive a lot!

If not, ring faults and they will get a tech out to it!

All boxes have 8Mb of usable memory (despite what it says in the engineering screens ), and it all gets allocated afresh each time you boot, so I can't see this being the cause.

My best guess is it depends on the order which it receives the cyclically-transmitted data off the network. (i.e. it is effectively random).

[Tristan]

Don't the 4010s have more?

[Jonathan David]

Does anyone know why in my error log I keep seeing 'lost Davic connection'?

[ikthius]

Originally Posted by Sam B

Ah yes, sorry, some more dates for you.
Glasgow and Teesside: downloads start from Tuesday 27th April.
Warwick and Andover: downloads start from Wednesday 28th April.
Hemel Hempstead: downloads start from Thursday 29th April.

Cheers
Sam

I am in the Glasgow area.
So when does the downloads happen, e.g. 2am like when the time changes from summer time to wintertime?

ik

[Sam B]

Don't know the time the downloads happen, best thing is to just leave it on standby overnight to get it as soon as it is available to you.

Some more dates...
Reading: downloads start from Tuesday 4th May.
Oxford: downloads start from Wednesday 5th May.
Nottingham: downloads start from Thursday 6th May.

Cheers
Sam

[spiderplant]

Originally Posted by Tristan

Don't the 4010s have more?

Note that I said "usable"

[daemon]

Hi,

I receive service from the Luton area and recently got the Improved Digital Service.

From what I can deduce, this service makes heavier use of the Internet for operation which is bad news as my STB spends a lot of time with the "Please wait..." box displayed (often giving the appearance of being locked-up) and programme information isn't available a lot of the time.

I've also had the "Your Set Top Box is experiencing an issue" message several times and pressing Select doesn't Fix it. The STB does lock-up when this happens.

Are others experiencing similar problems and, if so, is there a resolution for them?

Regards,
Neil Darlow

[poolking]

So it appears at the moment, Stafford is going to be one of the last areas to be updated.

[Rorschach]

Proppin, if you're out there, do you know which box types were getting Lcr3 in Glasgow this morning.


I've got a 4001 and woke up to zip, squat and didley!

Rorschach

[davie_gla]

Im in Renfrew and received CR3 this morning as part of the Glasgow rollout. I have a 4010 box. First impressions are good, I'll judge it better once I've used it for a couple of weeks.

[Flubflow]

Got the big update today too (Teesside).

There are a lof of useful features. Overall impressions are good-ish.
However, it seems that there are some things that make it more of a pain to use in the most fundemental way. You cannot pageup/down through the mini guide. So it's click, click, click, click, clickety click at infinitum (bad enough doing it yourself but just as horrible listening to somone else in the room clicking away like mad). It's made worse because it is slower than the old browser. Then again, an even better way to do what you used to do with the old browser guide is to use the new yellow button instead (favourites) but that takes up a big chunk of the screen and has to accessed after you have opened the miniguide (rather than directly).

The main guide is more useable than the old but it is still far from a delight to use because it is so slow when navigating and there are too many instances of "programme information unvailable". So you wait a little bit and then the channels on that page update - except the one you are actually highlighed on until a bit later still (or you can navigate some more and come back to it and it might have updated). It's wierd.

I like being able to re-order my fav channels. That is a definite plus. It did take a very long time indeed to do it from scratch (click, click, clickety click moving each fav through every damn channel). I would be extremely peeved if some prat came along and set them all back to the default order (which is very easy to do and should have PIN protection or at least a default selector on the "NO" rather than the "YES confirmation button).

In principle I think the idea is very good but the cable STB manufacturers have a lot to answer for because I think the lack of memory and processing power for these functions was way below what was really required back when they were designed nevermind the way they are now.

I would have liked to have seen a set of programmable timers that is not related to the guide at all. You know, like the old analogue boxes, so you can simply set time, channel, daily, weekly etc for your regular programmes without having to use the guide (which is useless after 3 days anyway). I'd have thought that if you have to limit the guide to 3 days then an independent timer would have been a very good compromise solution.

Gripes aside, I'd like to say thank you to the people behind the scenes who have been trying to give us something more like what we want and it must be a pretty thankless task (especially when people like us moan at them all the time ).

[Stephen]

Got mine today. In Glasgow. However my Interactive is not working. When changing channels and pressing other buttons it seems a little unresponsive. A little better than the version I played around with in Jan/feb though.