Wife **Hates** the new Black HD GUI - any way to get the old one back?

**glen4cindy** · 12-03-2011 01:44 AM

HR24, I personally like it, and most of it looks nice, however, when we hit LIST, it takes at least 5 seconds for the list to show.

Other than that, it seems pretty cool.

(She's a hater of new things and things she isn't used to. I'm sure even if it can revert, the new Black one would soon return, but, trying to make her happy).

If I can tell her it can't happen, she can just be unhappy.

Thanks in advance.

**HIFI** · 12-03-2011 01:47 AM

Try a download outside the CE window.

Sent from my Droid using the SatelliteGuys app

**texasbrit** · 12-03-2011 11:14 AM

That will only give you old GUI for a short while (maybe a week, maybe a couple of months at max) until the new GUI is automatically downloaded to your box)

**RandallA** · 12-03-2011 11:21 AM

Originally Posted by texasbrit

That will only give you old GUI for a short while (maybe a week, maybe a couple of months at max) until the new GUI is automatically downloaded to your box)

Exactly. Eventually, it will be rolled out to everybody and you'll have no choice but to get used to it.

**decodave** · 12-03-2011 03:17 PM

It SUCKS. Much harder to read, more like imposible. Looks like they're trying to look like everyone else.

**jdspencer** · 12-03-2011 03:40 PM

And so it starts!

Too bad that DirecTV didn't give a few choices for themes.

**charper1** · 12-03-2011 04:00 PM

Exactly; its just a guide. Not what 99.999% of users worry over. Even if they had 20 choices, a percentage would not like it. Use TitanTV or Zap2It as your EPG!!! ARGH! Just watch the quality programming.

**DodgerKing** · 12-03-2011 04:05 PM

I, for the life of me, cannot understand why anyone would hate something that is clearer, has a better image, is a lot faster, and is much easier to navigate. There is nothing about the older blue SD GUI that is superior to the newer HD GUI in anyway. To each his (her in this case) own I guess.

That is similar to those who would rather watch a blurry stretch SD show on their TV instead of an upcoverted better PQ 4:3 pillar-boxed show of the same program on the HD channel. My parents will change a show to the SD channel so they can stretch it if the one on the HD channel is pillar boxed.

Glen,

Did you ask here what it is that she prefers on the older one. Is it just a matter of what she is used to?

**DodgerKing** · 12-03-2011 04:07 PM

Originally Posted by charper1

Exactly; its just a guide. Not what 99.999% of users worry over. Even if they had 20 choices, a percentage would not like it. Use TitanTV or Zap2It as your EPG!!! ARGH! Just watch the quality programming.

And we only see the guid about 1% of the time as well. 99% of the time the only thing displayed is the program being watched

**steecoe** · 12-03-2011 05:02 PM

While I mostly like the style change of the new guide, I don't think there was anything wrong with the look of the old one. I like the color scheme of the new gude, but the contrast between the text & background sucks, it's harder for me to read the text as well as being extremely difficult to tell were one program ends & the next begins.

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