New HD GUI

[TDK1044]

This is due very soon now. Looking forward to it.

HD On Screen Guide

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

I have been running it for the past few weeks and can say its a VERY nice upgrade!

 

[TDK1044]

Do they have an actual release date yet, Scott? I'm presuming a staggered roll out.

 

[JerseyMatt]

No firm date. It was slated for sometime in November, but there are still a lot of bugs in the CE releases we've been getting. It won't be released until it's relatively stable. But graphics wise it's definitely all that and a bag of chips.. It's going to be worth the wait!

 

[NeoandGeo]

Is it really faster? I have found guides on EVERY cable/satellite box I have ever used laughably clunky and slow.

 

[dfergie]

Yes, it makes my HR20 - 700 very quick, almost comparable to my ViP 622 ...

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Yes a lot faster!

The only negative I see about it is the guide only shows up on your HD sets. If you have any SD TV's slaved off the receiver they can not see the guide.

 

[Mr Tony]

The only negative I see about it is the guide only shows up on your HD sets. If you have any SD TV's slaved off the receiver they can not see the guide.

I dont understand Scott. I have a H23 hooked to a SDTV and I can see the guide just fine (using a/v cables)

 

[Mr Tony]

The one bug that bothers me is when you use the 30 skip sometimes at a point it wont work. If you hit FF to go say a minute after that then it works just fine

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

They must have fixed something then, as that was one of the big complaints at DBSTalk.

 

[bacchus101]

I see the HD guide as more of an incremental update than anything groundbreaking. Now there is all this screen real estate, yet you can still only see 1.5 hours of the guide at a time going left to right and 3-6 channels top to bottom (depending on the level of banner spam.)

It is faster, which is a major plus, but beyond that it is the same old guide with more pixels.

The thing I still miss the most from Dish (beyond BBCAHD) is the ability to get a real overview of the channel landscape via the guide. I can understand why D* might want to avoid major changes in their GUI for the sake of being seamless, but I honestly don't need to be able to read the guide from 75 feet away. At 15 feet away on my 50" - the text could be 1/3 the size and it would still be very comfortable to read and I'd be able to see 3 times as much at once.

Hopefully they eventually offer the ability to alter the guide (ala Dish) to one's liking.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

I would like to see it so you can set the number of channels you want to see in the guide.

That is one of the few changes I would like to see made to it... (and i would like the channel logos in the guide as well.)

 

[dfergie]

I use slip and haven't had any issues...

 

[satjay]

I like it as well, gives the GUI a more "Professional" look I think

 

[CK SatGuy]

Looking at the pictures, I think it really is a major improvement. I think the only flaw is that it won't work if you still use a H20 receiver.

 

[raoul5788]

Looking at the pictures, I think it really is a major improvement. I think the only flaw is that it won't work if you still use a H20 receiver.

It's not really a flaw, the H20 doesn't have the ability to have the hd gui. I don't know if it's a memory or processing issue.

 

[whitewolf8214]

I would like them to make the guide extend the hours longer like dish does instead of just 1.5 to 2 like direct does scott good idea on number of channels

 

[Kevinw]

The one bug that bothers me is when you use the 30 skip sometimes at a point it wont work. If you hit FF to go say a minute after that then it works just fine

Happening to me too. I think it's cause I am mashing the button to fast.

 

[JerseyMatt]

I missed the d/l window last week, so I don't know if it's been fixed yet, but I'm having intermittent skip/fwd/back problems too. If I skip back it'll go to a white screen until I pause/restart. This happens randomly and took a while (almost a week) to show up after the download.

 

[ADJLATINO]

I call directv today .they say next wed at 3:00 am.in some region.