L4.15 for 625 to Spool Tomorrow - 3/27

[HDinTX]

Does anyone know what fixes and/or new features are included in this firmware upgrade for the 625? TIA

Here's the link: http://rweb.echostar.com/departmental_content/TechPortal/content/tech/TechUpdates.shtml

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

From my notes...

Side-by-side PIP

 

[stimpson]

Mine has had that for awhile now.

 

[ChetK]

Does this mean that everyone will be getting it as opposed to just the beta testers that really aren't called beta testers?

 

[KwestJones]

Yeah...i already have side-by-side PIP as well....

 

[skysurfer]

i hope they fix the DVR memory issue with this release.

 

[ChetK]

I'm not familiar with that issue. Do tell.

 

[IceRunner]

My side-by-side PIP changed. Before, it split it vertically from the top to the bottom of the scree, which skewed both pictures. Now, the two pictures are smaller, but aren't skewed.

 

[skysurfer]

I'm not familiar with that issue. Do tell.

The DVR memory issue is when watching events on the DVR, the place in the playback usually gets lost.

I see it most often on one hour shows. I'll hit a commercial break, hit the "SKIP FWD" button a few times to skip the ads, and when I'm done, the playback will be from the beginning of the recording or somewhere earlier that I've already seen. I then have to hit the FFWD button to get to the place where I need to pick my show up again. VERY ANNOYING.

It's been that way since L4.13 so I don't know if the engineers finally licked it in L4.15 or not. L4.14 was only nice as it fixed the TV2 issues (audio and b/w pictures) but didn't fix the DVR memory issue.

 

[ChetK]

The DVR memory issue is when watching events on the DVR, the place in the playback usually gets lost.

I see it most often on one hour shows. I'll hit a commercial break, hit the "SKIP FWD" button a few times to skip the ads, and when I'm done, the playback will be from the beginning of the recording or somewhere earlier that I've already seen. I then have to hit the FFWD button to get to the place where I need to pick my show up again. VERY ANNOYING.

It's been that way since L4.13 so I don't know if the engineers finally licked it in L4.15 or not. L4.14 was only nice as it fixed the TV2 issues (audio and b/w pictures) but didn't fix the DVR memory issue.

I wasn't aware that this was a problem. I never experienced it, but I guess you're saying it's a new issue with the 4.x series of updates. I just switched to 4.x from 3.66. I hope I don't experience it though.

 

[StevenD]

I wasn't aware that this was a problem. I never experienced it, but I guess you're saying it's a new issue with the 4.x series of updates. I just switched to 4.x from 3.66. I hope I don't experience it though.

You do realize they are talking about the 625, not the 622 ??

 

[ChetK]

Doh! Nope! But I do now.

 

[skysurfer]

I wasn't aware that this was a problem. I never experienced it, but I guess you're saying it's a new issue with the 4.x series of updates. I just switched to 4.x from 3.66. I hope I don't experience it though.

The issue is still there and I would consider it WORSE. With the prior 4.xx versions, I only saw the issue crop up in 1 hour-length shows (not every 1 hour show I watched, but if the show was 1 hour, I knew chances would be good I'd have the issue at some point in the playback). I was watching a couple of 30 min shows and had the issue today (so it looks like it affects 30-min and 1-hour shows now).

probably affects about 15-20% of the shows I playback on the DVR, but it is a bug that should be squashed at some point.