Hi, I used the technique in this forum to pull down the new ui. Over all it is pretty nice looking. Aside from Netflix search integration, I did not see any new functionality added to the HWS so it seems to be simply a face lift for the underlying functions.
I've used it for a few days now and am getting used to the new look. Here are a few things that I noticed while testing U203.
1. Battery critical warning. Every time I changed a channel, it told me that the remote battery was critically low. I've used a universal remote control for years. The Hopper remote is buried in a drawer somewhere without batteries. I went into menu settings and unpaired the listed Hopper remote from the Hopper. The critical battery messages continued until I rebooted the Hopper and then they went away.
2. Reordering timers. I had some issues with reordering timers. After getting the new ui, I changed my core package to add some additional channels and then added timers for them. When it came time to reorder them, I'd pick a program that I want to move up or down and then when I tried to move it, it would move another timer instead or not move at all. This continued until I restarted the Hopper and it seems to be working correctly since then.
3. Free on demand is not free. An OLD complaint but it persists with U203. On Demand lists several "free" tv shows on premium channels that I don't subscribe to. When I try to watch them, only then does it tell me that I need to subscribe to get access but then doesn't even tell me what premium they are on.
4. After a show ended, the pop up window defaulted to the more episodes list. When I finished watching the show, the box popped up to delete it, go to DVR, or go to live tv . The cursor position was at the bottom of a long list of on demand episodes and I had to up, up up, up, up, up to get to the "delete show" choice. The cursor should default to the options for the show just finished and require a down press to get to the selection of additional on demand episodes.
5. Wrong show details. I was watching while recording a show. During the show, I switched to finish watching a recorded episode of another show. When that show ended, I deleted it then went back to watching the show that was still recording. When that show ended, it popped up a box to delete, go to dvr, go to live TV showing the description and title of the earlier show that I had already watched and deleted instead of the one that I was currently ending.
6. Timers in the guide used to be color coded for which of the three tuners that they use. Now they are gray for skipped and red for all recordings. This change is probably because the UI code is shared with the Hopper 3 that has far too many tuners to color each of them so the HWS has now lost this feature.
7. Changes are instant so they no longer have a "save" option. The auto save is nice but also worries me. An example is when picking channels for a favorites list. It takes several minutes of adding and removing channels to customize a favorites list then if I change my mind, there is no way to cancel. The only option is "back". There seems to no longer be a way to back out without saving changes.
8. Unable to unpair portable media devices. There are several portable media devices for old iPads that I no longer have. Choosing unpair and then confirming does nothing. They remain in the list.
9. Record later showing to resolve conflict removes the new timer. If I try to add a timer and already have three shows recording, it will ask me to resolve the conflict. If I choose the record the next showing option, it just cancels out and does not save the timer at all.
10. Page down does not work in the edit timer options screen. The choices to prioritize or protect a timer are down in the list off the bottom of the screen. Page down doesn't take me to the bottom of the page the way I keep expecting it to do.
11. Scrolling the channel guide is slow and choppy. It was smooth with the older UI. Also some channel logos such as NFL Network are too small to be readable.
