HR20 / HR21 / R22 CE Release 8/8 0x0263

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Systems in CE:15:03
HR20-100 • HR20-700
HR21-100 • HR21-200 • HR21-700 • HR21Pro R22-100 • R22-200


Window of opportunity to download:
Friday, August 8, 2008 11:00PM - 2:30AM ET
Saturday, August 9, 2008 11:00PM - 2:30AM ET



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PLEASE READ THIS SECOND! CE Release Download Instructions

If you have any issues with this CE release, please post them in this thread. We'll try to help, and DirecTV will see / be aware of your issue :)


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VERY IMPORTANT - If you use an external drive, read note below - you may want to skip this CE release.
The Contents of this CE Download:
Differences based on last National Release
  • Items from CE:15:01 - High Risk
  • Items from CE:15:02- High Risk
  • Items from CE:15:03- High Risk

Improved
  • 01 - Under the hood improvements
  • 01 - New Factory Default is to Hide SD Duplicates
  • 01 - Prioritizer Screen updated
  • 01 - Recording tip display from the prioritizer
  • 01 - Added HD Icon to DIRECTV on Demand Queue
  • 01 - Support for Tversity Internet Radio
  • 01 - Closed Captioning
  • 02 - Interactive reliability
  • 02 - reliability when repeating guide setup multiple times
  • 02 - Fixed stuck yellow light after Reset Everything
  • 02 - Removed "Cancel PPV" option when purchased after free preview
  • 02 - closed captioning timing
  • 03 - Various UPnP devices crashing the box
  • 03 - Wireless Adapter – added characters / ~!# to triple tap

Updated
  • 01 - XM Programs from XM Channels are no longer auto-recorded
  • 01 - Screen saver removed after tuning away from an XM channel
  • 02 -HR20 video issues on REW x1
  • 02 -HR21 AC audio levels in certain situations
  • 02 -MediaShare Fixed "Unable to Play" message
  • 02 -DoD Left Arrow from "all" now works as expected
  • 02 -DIRECTV2PC Fixed hang on certain trick plays
  • 03 - UI becoming "sluggish"
  • 03 - Black screen or wrong video after exiting Signal Meter
  • 03 - iTV - Application not restarting when FFWD back to live TV
  • 03 - XM - screen saver displaying complete title of TV-MA program even after parental controls are set to block TV-MA
  • 03 - XM - screen saver displaying information for the previous channel
  • 03 - XM - background lost after reading fortune
  • 03 - Media Share – FFWD and RW not rotating LEDs as it does for recordings/live buffer
New feature s
  • 01 - Toggle between two recordings with the {PREV} button
  • 01 - Enable DIRECTV2PC formerly known as Media Share PC
  • 01 - Enable POKEEYENOW
  • 01 - Song Title on screen-saver XM Channels
  • 01 - Channels not subscribed are different color in grid
  • 01 - Support for Cisco Wireless Bridge WGA600N - plugs into Ethernet port
  • 01 - POST Power on Self-Test of hardware at boot up
  • 03 - Auto Extension – when there is no recording conflict generated by adding additional time and no manually set extensions, the DVR will record 10 seconds before the start time and 2 minutes after the end time of the originally scheduled program. Back to back recordings on one tuner will Auto Extend.

Notes
  • 01 - POST runs twice if new firmware detected
  • 01 - VERY IMPORTANT - DO NOT add an uninitialized eSATA drive as part of this release. This will erase the internal drive and interfere with booting. If you already have an eSATA configured, it should not have issues but be aware that you might .
High Risk Download:
Reverting back to National will delete all recordings made with this version of code.
Apologies in advance to anyone who bails out to national code.


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Auto Extension sounds like a very nice addition, and it's smart to what else is recording!

Now, if they can expand on this to have sports add 1 hour automatically, that would be huge! I had another DVR do this previously, can't remember if it was Dish or ReplayTV, but it was a nice featur to do that automatically.
 
Pay special attention to the last message. Rolling back to national release will delete any recordings made under this release.
 
I may very well wait on this one and get everyone's feedback. I have recodings I dont want to risk losing.

It would only affect things recorded under this release. So if you had to rollback Monday, you would only lose Sunday, for example.
 
so far so good. the one thing i did notice is that scrolling through the menu is a lot faster now. which is weird because usually after a software update the box is usually sluggish till the next day. still no widgets.
 
Example

WWE Friday night smack down HD Today -3:-14a 27-1 WGNTDT
NFL Preseason fotball Yesterday -6:-48a 212 NFLHD
 

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