HR2x CE Release 7/31 v.0342

[jcrandall]

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Friday 7/31/2009 11pm - 2:30am ET
Saturday 8/01/2009 11pm - 2:30am ET

Version x0342

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HR20-100, HR20-700
HR21-100, HR21-200, HR21-700
HR22-100
HR23-700
R22-100, R22-200

Improvements & Updates
* Under the hood


Notes

* You will lose your guide cache when reverting from CE to national
* Customer candidate

* As this is a customer candidate, MRV has been temporarily disabled to
help CEers isolate any remaining issues that are not brought about from
the MRV feature. Thank you for your understanding.

* When reporting issues with 1080p, please include the TV resolution
information reported from the Miscellaneous Options screen as well as
your TV model

Previous Release Information:

New Features
01 - Hide HD channels
02 - Multi-Room Viewing (enable with keyword search "MRVCLIENTON")
02 - Faster Reboots
03 - Dual Live Buffers (no longer requires keyword search to activate)
16 - TV Mail

Improved/Updated
01 - Under the hood
02 - Program Guide refinements
02 - Under the hood
02 - UI polishing
02 - 20 actors available again in listing
02 - Faster Guide
03 - DIRECTV On Demand in native mode
03- Playlist sorting
03 - Prioritizer deletion
03 - Previous channel when exiting interactive
03 - Under the hood
04 - Fixed frequent rebooting introduced in CE:20:02
04 - Missing OTA Channels
04 - No Guide Data HR21-200 only
04 - MediaShare: Tversity subfolder playback
04 - Under the hood
05 - Fixed long time to get out of standby
05- Dual Live Buffers (GameSwap)----- Resolution issues when switching buffers
----- Scheduled recordings will default to background tuner when there is no response to conflict resolution dialog
----- New information message when activating
----- Deactivates after 2 hours of non-use
----- Deactivates by putting receiver in standby (turn off) for 5 minutes or more and then turn it back on
----- Removed Toggle Tuner menu from TV Options (Yellow Button)
05 - Reboot issues
05 - Black Screen
05 - Under the hood
06 - Receivers not getting software download
06 - Keep or Delete OSD upon playback
06 - DoublePlay: Channel banner display
06 - MediaShare: Unable to play videos
06 - Reboot issues
06 - Caller ID
06 - Record Series Conflict screen
06 - System Test
06 - Under the hood
07 - Trickplay to Normal Play speed
07 - No Audio on Local channel recording
07 - Audio on Mix channels
07 - MediaShare compatibility with media servers
07 - History and To Do List recording messages
07- Record Series confirmation messages
07 - Booking live program recording prompts to add end time extension
07 - 1080p/24 TV compatibility
07 - Under the hood
08 - Spontaneous reboots
08 - Box unable to boot after CE download
08 - Lost audio after CE download
08 - Play button activates trickplay bar in ScoreGuide channels
08 - To Do List and History info screens
08 - MRV client playing back ATSC recordings
08 - DoublePlay after exiting recording
08 - Loss of background in interactive apps
08 - Under the hood
09 - MRV touch ups
09 - Playlist deletions upon software update
09 - GameSearch improvements
09 - Trickplay bar display
09 - Under the hood
10- MRV touch ups
10- Live Extension touch ups
10 - MediaShare fixes
10 - Incorrect title in Playlist
10- Audio selection on ATSC channels
10 -To Do List information
11 - Under the hood
11 - MRV touch ups
11 - DoublePlay touch ups
11 - Under the hood touch ups, including ‘unable to boot’ reports from last week’s CE
12 - DIRECTV Cinema marquee (channel 1100), even for those without internet
setup
12- Play DIRECTV Cinema on-demand from program guide movie posters (try
the movie posters in the 1000's)
12 - Parental Controls touch ups
12 - MRV touch ups
12 - DoublePlay touch ups
12- History information
12 - Under the hood
13 - New Feature: TV options DIRECTV Subtitling
13 - MRV touch ups
13- DoublePlay touch ups
13 - Trickplay updates
13- Aspect ratio changing on certain channels
13 - Box wrongly tuned to channel 9982 with screensaver showing
13- Bookmarks updates
13 - Under the hood
14 - DoublePlay touch ups
14 - Parental Controls touch ups
14- Under the hood
15 - DoublePlay touch ups
15 - Parental Controls touch ups
15 - Live Extension touch ups
15 - Under the hood
16 - DIRECTV Cinema touch ups
16 - To Do List touch ups
16 - TV Apps touch ups
16 - Under the hood

 

[homerofwar]

I always see under the hood improvements, what does that mean?

 

[mike1973]

I always see under the hood improvements, what does that mean?

Bux fixes, tweaks, minor things that make it work better basically.

 

[ekgermann]

Might as well do this one too since I nuked MRV last week.

For the love of God, please, please, please give us MRV back ...

 

[ChrisK114]

After much deliberating, I am doing the CE this week. That is what the CE's are for and I shouldn't pick and choose. MRV will be back in a few weeks.

 

[broncoman]

No MRV again? oh well, i'll try it anyway. Hopefully it's back soon!

 

[bratboy]

Last weeks did at least seem to improve remote response. May have to wait till tomorrow tho to grab this one as my roomy is watching something recorded and snarled when I mentioned doing the DL hehe

 

[lnguyen]

v.0342

DL'ing but 0342 instead of 0341. Any last minute changes by Dave?

 

[B-Dog]

NO MRV means NO CE in my house

My wife is nice enough to tolerate my CE testing, however, she fell in love with MRV, and if it went away with a new CE I would be in big trouble, missed it last week, and it turned out to be a good thing, logged in to check out what the update was and read no MRV.

However, I don't know if the MRV is ready to go national, mine is still flaky, it will work for 3 days, then it quits working and has to be rebooted, reminiscent of my days on the other sat provider, at least MRV is a good feature, but unless it is something else causing MRV to be flaky, it probably isn't something that would be worth going national just yet.

Just though I would share my 2 cents.

 

[jeglinas]

DL'ing but 0342 instead of 0341. Any last minute changes by Dave?

Same here anyone?

 

[hdtvtechno]

so is MRV included in 0342 now ?

 

[Jhon69]

so is MRV included in 0342 now ?

Post #1 says no.

 

[jcrandall]

Received word that there was a late change to version 0342.

No updates to the notes, so figure the change was very minor.

I updated the original post.

 

[jdspencer]

It seems that we are getting closer to an NR!!!!

 

[Jimbo]

No MRV again? oh well, i'll try it anyway. Hopefully it's back soon!

My wife is nice enough to tolerate my CE testing, however, she fell in love with MRV, and if it went away with a new CE I would be in big trouble, missed it last week, and it turned out to be a good thing, logged in to check out what the update was and read no MRV.

However, I don't know if the MRV is ready to go national, mine is still flaky, it will work for 3 days, then it quits working and has to be rebooted, reminiscent of my days on the other sat provider, at least MRV is a good feature, but unless it is something else causing MRV to be flaky, it probably isn't something that would be worth going national just yet.

Just though I would share my 2 cents.

CE testing is NOT to get the newest feature, that is a benefit of it, but definately NOT the reason for it.

D* would rather you NOT participate , I would think, if your going to only come in for the features and not post info as to how everything is working.

I can see this going away if it turns out that way.

I'm not saying to NOT participate, it's just they would like more input for all items introduced.

As for the MRV, it has been a work in progress and continues to be, D* has added alot of features in the last 6 months, time to redefine them, polish them up before doing the NR, although several things have already gone National.

Jimbo

 

[Jhon69]

No internet connection
R22-100
0x342


No audio Signal Meters Test.

I can see the record light come on when updating guide.

3 second channel change time when accessing channels in Mix Channels.

Minor hesitation while scrolling through guide in IR.

Gray screen when changing channels.R22s cannot access Bar Color to change from gray to black.

Takes 2 seconds to change channels.

Caller ID still displaying Unavailable for Name and Number.

NDS channels not "grayed out" in All Channels which makes NDS channels listed in Channels I Get and What's Hot.I am not supposed to receive NDS channels.

continuing search for issues.......

 

[cfb]

CE testing is NOT to get the newest feature, that is a benefit of it, but definately NOT the reason for it.

D* would rather you NOT participate , I would think, if your going to only come in for the features and not post info as to how everything is working.

I can see this going away if it turns out that way.

I'm not saying to NOT participate, it's just they would like more input for all items introduced.

As for the MRV, it has been a work in progress and continues to be, D* has added alot of features in the last 6 months, time to redefine them, polish them up before doing the NR, although several things have already gone National.

Hmm, I havent read anything in the CE materials distributed by directv saying that you have to download each and every release, nor anything saying that if you dont download every snippet of code every week that your participation is unwanted.

What exactly is wrong with someone who chooses to stay at a certain CE level, providing they arent complaining about old problems, calling directv customer service or discussing CE information outside of the appropriate forums?

Granted I agree that downloading the CE just to get the feature and never testing or reporting bugs isnt beneficial.

 

[cfb]

I always see under the hood improvements, what does that mean?

Anything too small to mention, fixes to proprietary modules or functions that arent visible to the user, and stuff thats too embarrassing to mention in detail

 

[ekgermann]

I guess I could post continuously that MRV "Just Worked" for me, but then that's kind of boring.

2 HR21's, 4 R22's, 1 H21 on a dedicated Ethernet switch, with about every combination of server to client. Oh and we do media share also.

So we test a feature they want pounded on and really don't have any issues, but we're ungrateful because it Just Works for us and lament having it go away?

Guess I'll have to post more "I see no problems", but most developers only want to hear whats broken not that all is good.

 

[bratboy]

Hmm, I havent read anything in the CE materials distributed by directv saying that you have to download each and every release, nor anything saying that if you dont download every snippet of code every week that your participation is unwanted.

What exactly is wrong with someone who chooses to stay at a certain CE level.

Thats a choice you can make for yourself as to updating or not. The only thing is, if I understand things correctly, if you don't keep current with the CE's then if that particular week they put out a NR your system will update to it. If you are using the current CE it won't.

Still like I said tho, its your choice. There have been one or 2 CE's I've skipped myself, usually because I was just too tired to stay up to do the DL. would love it if they would add an auto CE updating feature