Thread: Sonicview SV-360 Elite PVR

Originally Posted by flyingfrankie

The Pvr will also let you format in fat32 as well ,so i'll have to try that but I think win xp does not recognise large fat32 drives and I'll have to use another program to see it.( I heard that linux which I dont use has something.....)
The other portable powered HD is now partitioned and formatted and is fully 200Gb again and also seen as that size by the PVR.
Another problem I have is that it seems unable to just delete a recorded program. I can only format the whole drive to empty it.

- Will the PVR recognize the whole large drive, if you format it with your PC as FAT32?
- Does it recognize every partition separately in drives having several FAT32 PC formatted partitions?
- Can you format it with several partitions via the PVR - in what format?
- Do you know, what the difference is btw FAT32 and "Recording" PVR formats, and how it affects the user: can record more staff, faster search, long file names fully readable, etc.?
- Can you see long file names in FAT32 or "Recording" format formatted by the PVR?
- What the support responded on failure to delete recorded programs from HD?

I'm thinking of buying this Receiver, it is very popular, so your detail answers are appreciated.

Originally Posted by andyb2

If you can see it in the guide it will record it at the time it shows in the guide.

Does its Guide show your local time for each channel, or it shows the channel time zone or own time for some channels? It sounds from your answer that the Receiver should follow separately the time signal from each channel you set to record, and they may be different. I've used a PVR with Cable TV, but all cable channels are time sinced coming retransmitted from a single local source.

[quote=zamar23;1694985]- Will the PVR recognize the whole large drive, if you format it with your PC as FAT32?
- Does it recognize every partition separately in drives having several FAT32 PC formatted partitions?
- Can you format it with several partitions via the PVR - in what format?
- Do you know, what the difference is btw FAT32 and "Recording" PVR formats, and how it affects the user: can record more staff, faster search, long file names fully readable, etc.?
- Can you see long file names in FAT32 or "Recording" format formatted by the PVR?
- What the support responded on failure to delete recorded programs from HD?

I'm thinking of buying this Receiver, it is very popular, so your detail answers are appreciated.

Well here's my opinion:
I'm very happy with the menu lay out, it is very instinctive. Price is right. However there are major issues with this box when it comes to programming your recordings. read my several posts. it has 2 tuners and will record 2 channels if thats what you want . I also had time issues but it seems to keep time ok now. i have a computer powerbackup so it will keep power for a bit and keeps the settings. it will loose transponder settings that you set up once it loses power and you'll have to reprogram the box. it is unable to program a recording that you want for everyday (daily mode) from its menu . i found a way around it and since keep recording my 1 channel every day for 12 hrs. then watch the bits i want. my channel comes thru amc4 sat and that sat has no program info epg data big drawback for my uses. also sends no time signal to keep sat box up to date according iceman. i dont know which sat you're going to use and if it has time signal and epg data for you to use. It also will not let you delete just one recording. you can only reformat your drive to empty it to create space....
sonicview is aware of these issues the emailed me and are working on firmware updates. their tech support responds pretty fast by email however the issues have not been resolved sofar.... . keep in mind you have to purchase a hard drive seperately for recording it is not a box with a build in hard drive! I have been unable sofar to extract my recordings to my laptop for viewing on the road....
now for the formatting etc.
-the pvr will format the drive in either fat 32 or ext2 mode (the difference being that the latter mode is more advanced but tech support never explained the exact differences between the modes)
-it recognises all the drives i have used sofar and the whole total drive size.
-you do not format on your computer.
-havent used a drive that i partitioned in more partitions to see if it recognises it.

hope this helps

I would use FAT32 for formatting the drive if reading the files on a PC is important...

The Pansat 9200 seems to use a 3rd party file system that Windows has trouble recognizing, and the EXT2 file system is one I've never heard of...

flyingfrankie
Can you fully see long file names (recorded programs titles) in FAT32 or "Recording" format on the PVR? How a list of recorded programs look like - similar to a program guide with each show details?

Well live and learn I guess. Found out that it lets you choose between FAT32 and rec2 options for recording as a pvr. with Fat32 selected it will put .trp files on your drive/stick. the .trp files can be played with GOMplayer and works great. Only one thing the GOMplayer has to be selected to all (files) and therefore it will play everything alse as well that used to play with WMP/realplayer/itunes/quicktime. So you'll have to watch that and reselect/associate the other files types with your previous selction. So that 's that problem solved!

Originally Posted by Tron

Many FTA boxes won't keep proper time unless you tune to a guide regularly. In fact, boxes that hold accurate time are probably in the minority ...

I am thankful to be one of those "minority" groups! AZbox and Coolsat 5K keep time once set. Coolsat needs a new update, however. If you utilize GMT time, there is no option to select the offset (I assume it is meant to do this automatically via TP signal, but it doesn't work that way with FTA).

I will submit a bug report.

RADAR

To whom?

radar you do know this thread was from January