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Originally Posted by rkkeller
My only problem with the HDDVR is mine seems to get worse with every update. When I first got mine over a year ago, it worked fast and hardly any problems. Way better and faster than the DirecTV Dvr's which I came from.
Then 2 updates back, mine started getting random reboots, blank parts of some screens, HDMI issues and pauses when pressing keys to do things.
The most recent update seems to have done nothing and might have made things worse. Same exact problems but more random reboots, more HDMI handshake issues, skip seems to not always skip you have to press twice, jump back sometimes jumps back more than the 10 seconds its set at (sometimes 10, sometimes 30). On top of this awful soft SD picture.
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You're still getting random reboots? I got them pretty frequently right after we got the IMG, but since 1.5 we got, I think, 1. That's been a couple months going without a reboot.
As for the skip issue - I've seen that too. Hit skip twice in a row, and the second one doesn't seem to take.
And on the softness issue - that was actually intentional by Verizon. The SD picture on my SD STB is just as sharp as ever, but I've seen the SD picture on the HD box on an SDTV, and you can still see the softness. Basically Verizon mucked with some of the video processing settings to intentionally soften the picture (their studies have supposedly shown that people prefer the softer picture on their HD sets). The good news is that a future release of the s/w (not sure when) will allow you to adjust that processing. You can shut it off too, which will take the box back to the setting it was before the last couple s/w updates.
One good thing that they did with this update - they did improve the signal processing on the box. In the past if I set my SD override to 480p or to 'off', the mosquitoing that I got on some SD channels would drive me batty. Since 1.6 rolled out I decided to put the SD override back to 480p. The mosquitoing is totally gone.