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BTW, I haven't been hanging around in this forum lately because I have been too busy watching the tons of HD material available to me on Voom and on my local OTA antenna. I just happened to come back because I read a rumor somewhere that Voom had added the SciFi channel, the only SD channel that...

If D*'s former success is measured by their delivery of SD LiL's, and they are planning on measuring their success in the HD market based on their SD model, then I for one have no interest in their future. D* has shown total disdain for PQ over and over again throughout the years as they upped...

I really enjoy Voom as much as anyone here, but this situation is inexcusable! As Ilya and TvlMan correctly point out, call your credit card company, NOT VOOM, in order to straighten this out, unless your credit card company is as much of a disaster as Voom.

And if I understand correctly, the encoding process of H.264 requires a LOT more horsepower, therefore making it too slow to do in real time using current processing speeds. As such, I doubt highly that H.264 would be used for satellite transmissions, though it has been adopted as one of the...

I have 2 boxes: The first never requires rebooting. The second needs to be rebooted at least once a day, and it must be unplugged. The soft reboot does not help. I figured I would just put up with the second box until the new firmware comes out to see if it helps.

Yes, it is quite incredible! But not nearly as incredible as people who believe that they can see a single dropped frame. Three frames makes sense, as I mentioned earlier that I have been able to spot as few as 3, and I consider my eyes to be at least somewhat trained. I would never say that it...

Darrell, so how many frames total are "incorrect" during a single stutter? Based on your description, it sounds like 3 incorrect frames, as you mentioned "it goes back to the frame where it first dropped". And what exactly do you mean by "still frame"? Do you mean it is a duplicate of the...

No one that you know, anyway. ANY access card be hacked...It's just a matter of will and greed on the part of the hacker. D* has done a so-so job of keeping one step up on the hackers, and since the "gray" Canadien laws have now sided with D*, the serious hackers have simply gone underground...

I agree that the problem is at the decoding end, not the encoding. How close did the first appearance of stutters coincide with the release of firmware 5.68? And was the stuttering there before the update?

Since a decoder has to "work harder" decoding some material than it does on others, all of the above statements could be true. If the decoder has to work very hard and isn't fast enough to perform in real time, the effect would be very obvious, but if the workload is less demanding and the...

The stutters ARE there, no doubt about it, or at least on my two boxes! It depends on how many frames are dropped. Even a very experienced person would have a difficult time spotting a single dropped frame, and a novice might not notice anything less than 15 or 20. Even after several years...

Bummer...I guess I'll have to get out the old IR extender, heh? ;)

I noticed that there is a RF connector just above the RF out connector on the back panel. There is no reference to this connector in the manual. I think that it is for a RF remote, but can anyone verify this? And if so, how can I use it?

VideoGrabber, that was a virtually perfect post! Your points are all well taken and in my opinion extremely accurate. Unfortunately the creator of the poll simply wanted to hear nice things being said about Voom, and is not really interested in honest feedback. That's too bad, because the...

The lack of user selectable aspect ratio on the HD outputs is a MAJOR flaw in the Voom software, as I have been saying since the first day that I got my box. Voom has made 2 assumptions when they designed the box: 1. All SD display devices have a 4:3 aspect ratio 2. All HD display devices...

Exactly. We Mozilla users aren't using it by accident. :D People who use Mozilla are the same kind of people who use Voom - Not afraid to take a chance on something less mainstream, and as a result are highly rewarded for our pioneering attitude. D* subscribers use IE...:p

Most of my lockups occur when I haven't touched anything in several hours. The boxes bug out all by themselves with no help from me. Sometimes I see a red "satellite" signal on the front of the box, sometimes the audio is still going with no picture, sometimes the channel is working perfectly...

I have two boxes, and they both crash several times a day. I can't believe I have 2 bad boxes, so at this point I will assume that the software is just incredibly unstable. BTW, I never put boxes in standby. They are always on.

I suspect that something is wrong with your Voom box. I am using a CTCA3 with my Voom box and everything is perfect. I also tried it out with my second Voom box and a different projector and that was perfect also. What display device are you feeding with the CACA3, and does it have color space...

You forgot one important category - "other" My biggest single complaint is the horrendous program guide, closely followed by insufficient software control of the Voom box (single button guides, more customizable guides, being able to choose the aspect ratio of your HD display device...

Please don't misunderstand - I do not work for or are otherwise associated with Microsoft in any way. I am just one of the volunteer testers among many who are in contact with the MS codec team, that's all.

Hi Ilya, Unfortunately, though I am not officially under NDA, MS has requested that I keep things pretty quiet, so I can't tell you as much as I would like, but I can answer a couple of questions. I personally am using a 9" CRT front projector, one of just a few that can fully resolve...

Guys, regardless of your political position regarding MS, their codec rocks!! Since we (over at AVS) are serving as a testbed for the new codec, I am in pretty close contact with the MS development team. They are some of the finest people in the business and are truly concerned with producing...

You need to do several things: 1. Connect the Voom box's component output to the X1's RGB input by using component cables connected to an InFocus Component to VESA Adapter. This is a custom pinout cable, and as far as I know, no other cable or adapter will work correctly. I made one up myself...

I am using the KD-CTCA3 and it works perfectly. Like Mr. Biggles mentioned, you should check to see that you are sending the correct resolution output (1080i or 720p should be your choices). Then connect the RGB output of the transcoder directly to the Runco input (if you can), leaving out the...