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Ravinder Gill August 15th 03 10:57 AM

Pace TwinView Software Update Opinion
 
Touch wood !! - I have had no crashes since the upgrade on Wednesday.

My favourite improvment is the ability to turn it off while it is recording.

Anyone notice any other changes?




Rod August 15th 03 01:35 PM


"Chris Ashby" wrote in message
...

"Ravinder Gill" wrote in message
...
Touch wood !! - I have had no crashes since the upgrade on Wednesday.

My favourite improvment is the ability to turn it off while it is

recording.

Anyone notice any other changes?


It still crashes. Also it doesn't really turn it off when recording. Audio
still comes from the digital output.

rewinding is still broken, often skipping a few minutes or right to the
beginning.

At least I'm not the only one still suffering. I can second all of the

above.
Rod



Chris Ashby August 15th 03 04:23 PM


"Wills" wrote in message
...
"Chris Ashby" wrote:

"Ravinder Gill" wrote in message
...
Touch wood !! - I have had no crashes since the upgrade on Wednesday.

My favourite improvment is the ability to turn it off while it is

recording.

Excellent, didn't knowe that.

Is there a list of 'improvements' anywhere?? I've had a look

unsuccessfully.

It still crashes. Also it doesn't really turn it off when recording.

It would stop recording if it did!!


Yes, I know that, but my point was that sound still comes from the digital
output, when it is "off" whilst recording.



Ravinder Gill August 15th 03 07:50 PM

Guess what? It just crashed!! I was flipping channels, going from BBC2 to
BBC1 and suddenly it died and the only thing on display was the Pace logo.
The gremlins are back and the nightmare is not over.

I am beginning to think there is a hardware fault that causes the crash
because I am sure Pace would have been able to fix such an obvious annoyance
by now. Either that, or they intentionally don't want the box to sell too
well becasue it means quite a few people like myself won't subscribe to
sky(+) and sky is somehow bending their arms.

Whatever the reason, I want a box that works. I am going to send another
email to Pace to request a replacement, refund or a solution to this issue.




Edward August 15th 03 11:23 PM

Same here, cept it was between channel 4 and itv.
I had to unplug it to get any further, there was no other response even
though the IR signal light was flashing,
When it reset it actually started up on itv.


"Ravinder Gill" wrote in message
...
Guess what? It just crashed!! I was flipping channels, going from BBC2 to
BBC1 and suddenly it died and the only thing on display was the Pace logo.
The gremlins are back and the nightmare is not over.

I am beginning to think there is a hardware fault that causes the crash
because I am sure Pace would have been able to fix such an obvious

annoyance
by now. Either that, or they intentionally don't want the box to sell too
well becasue it means quite a few people like myself won't subscribe to
sky(+) and sky is somehow bending their arms.

Whatever the reason, I want a box that works. I am going to send another
email to Pace to request a replacement, refund or a solution to this

issue.







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Simon Slavin August 16th 03 02:15 AM

In article ,
Wills wrote:

I also would like to have the option to turn the information screen off. So i
can archive stuff at half speed eg.


Erm, what ?



Tom Wesley August 16th 03 10:26 AM

Simon Slavin wrote:

In article ,
Wills wrote:

I also would like to have the option to turn the information screen off.
So i can archive stuff at half speed eg.


Erm, what ?


I think he means to lose the progress information from the archiving, so
that he can play the archive at double speed. I am guessing that he would
try some setting of SP/LP or the like on his video to play it back at
normal speed.

Tom

Roger Wilmut August 16th 03 11:18 AM

In article , "Ravinder
Gill" wrote:

Touch wood !! - I have had no crashes since the upgrade on Wednesday.

My favourite improvment is the ability to turn it off while it is
recording.

Anyone notice any other changes?


It may be too soon to say, but I am hopeful that the 'missing
recordings' but has been fixed - I've done 27(!) test recordings without
losing one. (Of course it may be waiting for a 'real' recording.)

However I'm still getting momentary picture freezes on playback as
before - the sound continues, and it's a characteristic that if you
rewind and play that bit again the freeze isn't repeated. I've reported
this to Pace.

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Wills August 16th 03 11:55 AM

@localhost (Simon Slavin) wrote:

In article , Wills
wrote:

I also would like to have the option to turn the information screen off. So
i can archive stuff at half speed eg.


Erm, what ?


The blue banner at the bottom of the screen telling what I'm watching
and one at the top right of the picture, telling me I'm in pause, or 1/5 speed
etc.

I pressed pause the other day to read what was in a letter on screen, only to
have it blocked by the blue banner :(

W

Wills August 16th 03 12:05 PM

"Chris Ashby" wrote:


It still crashes. Also it doesn't really turn it off when recording.

It would stop recording if it did!!


Yes, I know that, but my point was that sound still comes from the digital
output, when it is "off" whilst recording.


Sorry but I can't see what the problem with that is.


W

Chris Ashby August 18th 03 12:01 PM


"Roger Wilmut" wrote in message
...
In article , "Ravinder
Gill" wrote:

Touch wood !! - I have had no crashes since the upgrade on Wednesday.

My favourite improvment is the ability to turn it off while it is
recording.

Anyone notice any other changes?


It may be too soon to say, but I am hopeful that the 'missing
recordings' but has been fixed - I've done 27(!) test recordings without
losing one. (Of course it may be waiting for a 'real' recording.)


I had a 0s recording on Saturday. :(




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