kudos to you both for some lucid and constructive dialogue......
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Features Lost / Interface /Feature Suggestions
First of all I like 3.0 very much!! Don't get me wrong! But I would like to point out some stuff that I am confused with and other features that have been lost. Please take this as constructive critism http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/smile.gif
In the channel guide where the video shows through the show description area (HUD). What real benefit is this? What were the programmers thinking in implementing this feature? Just adding some Pizzazz? Why not allow the video show through for the entire channel guide? That would have been more beneficial. Why not allow the video to show through when you hit display on the remote in the show description area? Wouldn't have been great there!
I also think they could have implemented it in several other places like the blue bar that comes up at the bottom of the screen to notify you that a recording is going to occur or other notification. Just think they could have used full screen ads while the unit is paused if the blue bar allowed the video to show through.
When I pause my ReplayTV ... majority of the time is is for long periods of time! ReplayTV could have easily changed the pictures that appear when the unit is paused as a type of a screen saver. Changing them say every few minutes but instead they are static.
I dislike the blaring statement that comes up to tell the user to Please Wait. For some reason this is in bright red! Reminds me of an error message or something. This message box colors is not in uniform with other aspects of the replay software.
When the channel guide is up or the replay guide is up ... you must wait a few seconds for the show title description text to start scrolling. Why? I would rather the text to scroll immediately.
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When watching a delayed show and the replaytv unit begins recording another show you now must hit RETURN TO LIVE at the end of the current show. Evidently ReplayTV is forcing a channel change regardless if tuned to the correct channel or not. I would like an option to turn this feature on or off. Now the ReplayTV blue screen is on many of the times when I come back into the room instead of a television show. This interrupts the television viewing experience...or makes it confusing for children or adults that are not fully familiar with the unit.
There are a couple of display bugs.
1. When use press stop and then pull up the channel guide the previous video shows through.
2. When the unit is paused and a blue bar appears at the bottom of the unit to notify you of a recording that is beginning...when this blue bar disappears the the paused video shows through in this area only while the replaytv ad/pictures is at the top. Looks to be an overlay problem.
Both of these bugs were reported to Replay.
Feature request:
I would like the ReplayGuide to change the color of a show that has been viewed to a slightly darker color of blue. I normally don't delete my shows since I set most of them up as non-guaranteed. Also perhaps in the pop up menu you could have an option to change the show status as viewed or not viewed.
I would also like to tell the ReplayTV unit which days it can dial out. For instance if I only want it to call the mother ship on Monday, Thursday and Saturday. This would be very beneficial to people that must dial a long distance number.
Now that the major requests are now within the ReplayTV software...perhaps they can work on the little details to make it more user enjoyable.
And finally some praise...I really like how ReplayTV has changed the system setup menus. Looks great! The unit doesn't try to dial out when you make a minor change! Good Work!
[This message has been edited by Loren Kruse (edited 10-22-2000).]
In the channel guide where the video shows through the show description area (HUD). What real benefit is this? What were the programmers thinking in implementing this feature? Just adding some Pizzazz? Why not allow the video show through for the entire channel guide? That would have been more beneficial. Why not allow the video to show through when you hit display on the remote in the show description area? Wouldn't have been great there!
I also think they could have implemented it in several other places like the blue bar that comes up at the bottom of the screen to notify you that a recording is going to occur or other notification. Just think they could have used full screen ads while the unit is paused if the blue bar allowed the video to show through.
When I pause my ReplayTV ... majority of the time is is for long periods of time! ReplayTV could have easily changed the pictures that appear when the unit is paused as a type of a screen saver. Changing them say every few minutes but instead they are static.
I dislike the blaring statement that comes up to tell the user to Please Wait. For some reason this is in bright red! Reminds me of an error message or something. This message box colors is not in uniform with other aspects of the replay software.
When the channel guide is up or the replay guide is up ... you must wait a few seconds for the show title description text to start scrolling. Why? I would rather the text to scroll immediately.
Lost feature http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/frown.gif
When watching a delayed show and the replaytv unit begins recording another show you now must hit RETURN TO LIVE at the end of the current show. Evidently ReplayTV is forcing a channel change regardless if tuned to the correct channel or not. I would like an option to turn this feature on or off. Now the ReplayTV blue screen is on many of the times when I come back into the room instead of a television show. This interrupts the television viewing experience...or makes it confusing for children or adults that are not fully familiar with the unit.
There are a couple of display bugs.
1. When use press stop and then pull up the channel guide the previous video shows through.
2. When the unit is paused and a blue bar appears at the bottom of the unit to notify you of a recording that is beginning...when this blue bar disappears the the paused video shows through in this area only while the replaytv ad/pictures is at the top. Looks to be an overlay problem.
Both of these bugs were reported to Replay.
Feature request:
I would like the ReplayGuide to change the color of a show that has been viewed to a slightly darker color of blue. I normally don't delete my shows since I set most of them up as non-guaranteed. Also perhaps in the pop up menu you could have an option to change the show status as viewed or not viewed.
I would also like to tell the ReplayTV unit which days it can dial out. For instance if I only want it to call the mother ship on Monday, Thursday and Saturday. This would be very beneficial to people that must dial a long distance number.
Now that the major requests are now within the ReplayTV software...perhaps they can work on the little details to make it more user enjoyable.
And finally some praise...I really like how ReplayTV has changed the system setup menus. Looks great! The unit doesn't try to dial out when you make a minor change! Good Work!
[This message has been edited by Loren Kruse (edited 10-22-2000).]
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kudos to you both for some lucid and constructive dialogue......
Ryan, you weren't alone in reporting this kind of stuff.
I agree w/ Loren: don't get me wrong, the Channel Guide transparent HUD is great...but why not MORE. Why ONLY do it in that one itsy bitsy spot? Wasted opportunity if you ask me.
And while I agree that the "please wait" is not uniform w/ the other screens on the UI what I think is that the rest of the UI should change - not that message. I don't like it being the ONLY red color used anywhere - but I'd rather see some more red added instead of that one red spot taken away.
I sure hope they "fix" some of these "bugs" but I don't know...how long did the old logo sit there? Changing the UI graphics is dangerous...you might change it for the worse according to some...or just confuse others by constant changes. Best to get it right and leave it be. Notice TiVo 2.0 doesn't change much in this regard... (not a knock at Replay, just pointing it out)
And just to have the other side represented: I see no need for color changing in the Replay Guide. I think it would just be confusing. I think 95% of the regular users out there would watch a show start to finish and then delete it.
I agree w/ Loren: don't get me wrong, the Channel Guide transparent HUD is great...but why not MORE. Why ONLY do it in that one itsy bitsy spot? Wasted opportunity if you ask me.
And while I agree that the "please wait" is not uniform w/ the other screens on the UI what I think is that the rest of the UI should change - not that message. I don't like it being the ONLY red color used anywhere - but I'd rather see some more red added instead of that one red spot taken away.
I sure hope they "fix" some of these "bugs" but I don't know...how long did the old logo sit there? Changing the UI graphics is dangerous...you might change it for the worse according to some...or just confuse others by constant changes. Best to get it right and leave it be. Notice TiVo 2.0 doesn't change much in this regard... (not a knock at Replay, just pointing it out)
And just to have the other side represented: I see no need for color changing in the Replay Guide. I think it would just be confusing. I think 95% of the regular users out there would watch a show start to finish and then delete it.
I just want to point out there are some people, espcialy me who don't like trying to read text on top of video. And if they did make it more I hope they at least make it an option. My HDTV dct100 give an option of selecting I think of 4 different value for this. But if they can't give me the option then I like it the way it is. http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/smile.gif
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a TV nut that's hard to crack.
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Tom Paulus
a TV nut that's hard to crack.
As for display bugs #1 & #2, they were both reported to Replay during the beta process (at least by me, I assume other testers reported them, too). I have been told that correcting cosmetic issues like these was allowed to pass in, an effort to get the public roll-out started, and they would most likely be corrected after operating issues have been verified to be working correctly.
As for your feature request, Replay Mike had replied to a request for a similar feature very favorably, and said he would start tossing it around at HQ. The feature ReplayMike liked was a manual color change of a Replay Channel, initiated by the user, to any of a palette of perhaps eight colors.
Maybe a combination of the two would be useful: Replay Channels that have begun to be watched (or watched completely) would turn a lighter blue, like shows in the Channel Guide which have started. Plus, users would have some way to change the color manually to some other choices. These colors could be used to mark a show to other household members as DO NOT ERASE, TO BE ARCHIVED, SAFE TO DELETE, PLEASE WATCH, etc. I often save interesting segments for my wife, and then have to tell her, "oh, check this out." Perhaps I could just mark the channel in an orange color, and when she sees it in the ReplayGuide she'll know to watch it.
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Ryan
As for your feature request, Replay Mike had replied to a request for a similar feature very favorably, and said he would start tossing it around at HQ. The feature ReplayMike liked was a manual color change of a Replay Channel, initiated by the user, to any of a palette of perhaps eight colors.
Maybe a combination of the two would be useful: Replay Channels that have begun to be watched (or watched completely) would turn a lighter blue, like shows in the Channel Guide which have started. Plus, users would have some way to change the color manually to some other choices. These colors could be used to mark a show to other household members as DO NOT ERASE, TO BE ARCHIVED, SAFE TO DELETE, PLEASE WATCH, etc. I often save interesting segments for my wife, and then have to tell her, "oh, check this out." Perhaps I could just mark the channel in an orange color, and when she sees it in the ReplayGuide she'll know to watch it.
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Ryan
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God forbid you TALK to her!!
Sorry http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/wink.gif but you just ASKED for THAT one Ryan, hehe.
Ed Leiken
| Originally posted by Ryan: I often save interesting segments for my wife, and then have to tell her, "oh, check this out." Perhaps I could just mark the channel in an orange color, and when she sees it in the ReplayGuide she'll know to watch it. |
Sorry http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/wink.gif but you just ASKED for THAT one Ryan, hehe.
Ed Leiken
Our goal is collect enough gadgets and technology so we won't have to talk to or see each other http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/wink.gif . Voicemail, Replay, email, notes on the fridge...She'll go to work, and I'll take the kids; I'll go shopping and she'll take the kids, etc. Now about making the kids, that might require some personal interaction...
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Ryan
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Ryan
I know a lab that can take care of that for you... http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/wink.gif
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No it wasn't that away all along. The software prior to release 2.0 handled it in the following way:
While watching a delayed broadcast ( a show currently not recording ) and then say at the top of the hour ReplayTV begins recording another show...you then could continue watching the current delayed broadcast even all the way up to the point where ReplayTV began recording and beyond...with out the blue screen coming up or having to hit (RETURN TO LIVE) button. You could do this even if the recording was on a different channel. Although once you got to the point of where ReplayTV began recording you could not rewind past that point that point.
My main gripe is that the BLUE SCREEN is on my TV everytime I walk into the room. I watch alot of delayed broadcasts and record a lot of shows. It is nice to just have some background noise in the house sometimes even though no one is watching the TV...now I have no noise and a BRIGHT blue screen.
Loren Kruse
[This message has been edited by Loren Kruse (edited 10-23-2000).]
| Originally posted by ReplayMike: Thanks for the comments and suggestions. One correction, though: The ReplayTV has always worked this way. If you're watching a show delayed as it's recording, then when you get to the end of the show, you will get the end-of-show blue screen. Same if you're watching live and a show starts recording in the background. When you reach the point where the recording started, you'll get the blue stop screen. "Why?", you might ask. Well, in the case of the pause buffer, it's so you'll be able to back up once you hit the end. If we jumped right into the recording show, there would be no way to get back to the content in the buffer. |
While watching a delayed broadcast ( a show currently not recording ) and then say at the top of the hour ReplayTV begins recording another show...you then could continue watching the current delayed broadcast even all the way up to the point where ReplayTV began recording and beyond...with out the blue screen coming up or having to hit (RETURN TO LIVE) button. You could do this even if the recording was on a different channel. Although once you got to the point of where ReplayTV began recording you could not rewind past that point that point.
My main gripe is that the BLUE SCREEN is on my TV everytime I walk into the room. I watch alot of delayed broadcasts and record a lot of shows. It is nice to just have some background noise in the house sometimes even though no one is watching the TV...now I have no noise and a BRIGHT blue screen.
Loren Kruse
[This message has been edited by Loren Kruse (edited 10-23-2000).]
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Wasn't there a CFP command to restart from the beginning... sort of an AutoRewind and Play? Maybe the FAQ has it listed! That might work for you.
| Originally posted by Loren Kruse: [B It is nice to just have some background noise in the house sometimes even though no one is watching the TV...now I have no noise and a BRIGHT blue screen. [/b] |
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Well Ryan, I'm a physician and can probably help you with that last one. Let's just schedule your visits on different days so you two don't accidentaly run into eachother in the waiting room http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/wink.gif
Ed Leiken
| Originally posted by Ryan: Our goal is collect enough gadgets and technology so we won't have to talk to or see each other http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/wink.gif . Voicemail, Replay, email, notes on the fridge...She'll go to work, and I'll take the kids; I'll go shopping and she'll take the kids, etc. Now about making the kids, that might require some personal interaction... |
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