Always wondered who actually is doing the upgrading of my directv box, I own the mitsu srhd400 and I see the current software says 5099.0 with no future upgrades slated yet, are the upgrades issued/designed by directv or are they issued/designed by mitsubishi? & are these coming thru the dish or phone line?
Guess it doens't make a huge difference I just wondered who makes the decision when its time to upgrade as to what changes are made, and who & how is the upgrade actually sent to us users, on this last upgrade I lost some abilities I am bummed about (allowing me to choose black bars vs grey bars for viewing for instance is now not an option) this happened overnight on me when this thing upgraded apparently...
Also wondering where if anywhere we could report bugs and or wants on these future upgrades?
I would REALLLLY like the ability to have the channel display thing be turned off alot faster, (you know when you change channels the display thing stays up for like 8-10 seconds showing the channel and the name of the program) I usually hit some other button (cant recall at the moment) to clear it but it would be nice to choose to turn it off faster as a general option, its sorta like the whole logo issue (I cant STAND static logos) but in relation to the channel banner thingy from directv, I know what channel i am on and what the show is about from viewing the guide beforehand, I dont need to see it plastered up there for 10 seconds everytime I change the channel.
and I would like the ability to put the black bars back on (an option recently removed apparently) for occasional 4:3 viewing of directv programing. Yeah I know some here will talk about burnin issues but I know by the time that happens (i dont watch alot of 4:3 directv) I will want a newer better tv and will probably buy one for 1/3 the cost of what this one ran me - so im not too worried on that. That's like saying don't overclock that pc you'll wear it out faster, heck by the time I wear out that overclocked pc I am ready for a new one,
nuff said.....
Bill
Guess it doens't make a huge difference I just wondered who makes the decision when its time to upgrade as to what changes are made, and who & how is the upgrade actually sent to us users, on this last upgrade I lost some abilities I am bummed about (allowing me to choose black bars vs grey bars for viewing for instance is now not an option) this happened overnight on me when this thing upgraded apparently...
Also wondering where if anywhere we could report bugs and or wants on these future upgrades?
I would REALLLLY like the ability to have the channel display thing be turned off alot faster, (you know when you change channels the display thing stays up for like 8-10 seconds showing the channel and the name of the program) I usually hit some other button (cant recall at the moment) to clear it but it would be nice to choose to turn it off faster as a general option, its sorta like the whole logo issue (I cant STAND static logos) but in relation to the channel banner thingy from directv, I know what channel i am on and what the show is about from viewing the guide beforehand, I dont need to see it plastered up there for 10 seconds everytime I change the channel.
and I would like the ability to put the black bars back on (an option recently removed apparently) for occasional 4:3 viewing of directv programing. Yeah I know some here will talk about burnin issues but I know by the time that happens (i dont watch alot of 4:3 directv) I will want a newer better tv and will probably buy one for 1/3 the cost of what this one ran me - so im not too worried on that. That's like saying don't overclock that pc you'll wear it out faster, heck by the time I wear out that overclocked pc I am ready for a new one,
nuff said.....
Bill