Before I start ranting, let me say that I am a computer programmer by profession, and I think that the whole UTV OS could have been better delivered by a bunch of high school interns.
This software is so bug ridden that it's not even funny. The scope of functionality is not that complicated, the number of bugs is completely unacceptable. It makes me wonder if any of the development team actually has a unit at home that they use even casually. If they do, how come they don't see these problems and fix them? How many times have you had something not record that should have? How many times have you had the same show recording inexplicably on both tuners? How many times have you had recordings deleted early? How many times have you tried to pause only to get the message "No pause time left" (Still don't know what the heck that means or how it is possible). I've had more bizzare things happen than I can even recall. On occasion I go to play a recording and the system freezes up on the last frame from the last recording I viewed. I could go on for hours describing all the weird stuff, but I'll spare you since I'm sure you've seen if for yourself.
The speed of the UI is a complete joke. The processor that is in the thing is more than adequate for the task. Maybe if I was recording on both tuners, I would expect to see some degradation in the UI performance. But it is always unacceptably slow. I press the guide button, and it take 4 friggin seconds to pull up the guide. It shouldn't be hard to keep 7 channels, 2hours cached and ready to display at all times. There isn't that much information. And I know that one of you is going to claim that the delay is a feature and that you like it, Give it a rest.
I've had problems recording "Curb Your Enthusiasm" for weeks. This week was no exception. This time, I specifically checked 15 minutes before the program start time, looked at the guide saw the little red dot and was happy expecting it to record. 15 minutes into the show, I go to "My Shows" to start watching it. It isn't recording, and the dot is now gone from the guide. WTF?
I'm paying an extra $10 a month for this BS?
If they don't improve their system, they are going to get squashed like a bug by Tivo, and we're all going to be stuck with the PVR equivalent of a Betamax VCR. Get your act together Microsoft.
This software is so bug ridden that it's not even funny. The scope of functionality is not that complicated, the number of bugs is completely unacceptable. It makes me wonder if any of the development team actually has a unit at home that they use even casually. If they do, how come they don't see these problems and fix them? How many times have you had something not record that should have? How many times have you had the same show recording inexplicably on both tuners? How many times have you had recordings deleted early? How many times have you tried to pause only to get the message "No pause time left" (Still don't know what the heck that means or how it is possible). I've had more bizzare things happen than I can even recall. On occasion I go to play a recording and the system freezes up on the last frame from the last recording I viewed. I could go on for hours describing all the weird stuff, but I'll spare you since I'm sure you've seen if for yourself.
The speed of the UI is a complete joke. The processor that is in the thing is more than adequate for the task. Maybe if I was recording on both tuners, I would expect to see some degradation in the UI performance. But it is always unacceptably slow. I press the guide button, and it take 4 friggin seconds to pull up the guide. It shouldn't be hard to keep 7 channels, 2hours cached and ready to display at all times. There isn't that much information. And I know that one of you is going to claim that the delay is a feature and that you like it, Give it a rest.
I've had problems recording "Curb Your Enthusiasm" for weeks. This week was no exception. This time, I specifically checked 15 minutes before the program start time, looked at the guide saw the little red dot and was happy expecting it to record. 15 minutes into the show, I go to "My Shows" to start watching it. It isn't recording, and the dot is now gone from the guide. WTF?
I'm paying an extra $10 a month for this BS?
If they don't improve their system, they are going to get squashed like a bug by Tivo, and we're all going to be stuck with the PVR equivalent of a Betamax VCR. Get your act together Microsoft.
