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#1542335 26-Apr-2016 16:47

What are people's overall opinions of this box at the present time?

We are thinking of getting ridding of the MySky and I looked at the specs on this device thinking "Perfect!"

However, having read the forum I'm filled with dread as it appears to be a bit unreliable/flaky. And it seems each firmware update brings more problems than fixes.

I want something my wife can use without having to ring me up because it's locked up, or missing stuff, or misrecorded etc. If it can play movies off my Linux server via DLNA then even better. Not a major requirement, but would be nice.

Is this the box people would recommend? Is there a better box? (I want an all-in-one box, I don't want 5 different boxes.)

For reference: We have to pull the power on the MySky about once every 4 months. So I want this level of reliability when it comes to recording TV and playing it back. No so worried about Freeview Plus which seems terrible and we have Netflix for that on an Apple TV.

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#1542344 26-Apr-2016 17:01

nope

i have never found anything as good as mysky for reliability, didnt know mysky did DLNA or half of what this does though

you will get phone calls , in my case i get the mention after i get home but same same .

you are obviously looking for the best , an ideal box... this is not it but i dont know of any that do all this . I knew what i was getting myself in for having had a magic tv

it uses 12w when at full speed and 0.3w when in standby my cold dead hands will need to prized off mine , but im only 90% happy, you are looking for 99% so nope.

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#1542356 26-Apr-2016 17:38

i dont think there is a complete replacement for sky at the moment.

This box is good and does have potential, but i think they released it to early, and could have spent a little more time ironing out bugs. I dont think they tried enough different setups when testing as some people are having different errors and issues to others even though we are all on the same firmware, and i think its how the box is dealing with peoples setups.

And while Josh has been great on here, i just dont think enough is being done to fix the issues and ensure that future firmware comes out without other issues in it (like the scaling of media being played on it, was too small now its too big)

I havent had some of the issues others have had, and i have yet to have my wife have a reason to talk to me about the box as its played nice for her. im at about once a fortnight for a reset of the box, normally due to UPnP issues.

Jimmy22

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#1542447 26-Apr-2016 21:08

Interesting happenings tonight :) . One of my two noted faults happened tonight.. while we were playing back a recording from the library and fast forwarding , and then trying to resume playback, the playback locked and played on not allowing us to interact in any way as per usual. Then my other noted fault came in ..produced a recording finished banner blocking the screen and then booted us to the library as usual..however it DID override the lock up !! So back to normal after exiting the library and .is sing a few seconds of playback..until it does it next time.

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#1542448 26-Apr-2016 21:08

dwl

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#1542453 26-Apr-2016 21:29

I am pretty happy with mine and got rid of MySky. However, my wife does find it more frustrating, especially the remote which has very small buttons for the transport (play, FF, RWD) and not so logical as MySky. Current firmware for me has issues with rewind, not moving back fast enough. When playing back works well. Probably would be accepted better if I invested in a better remote.

saenglish

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#1542467 26-Apr-2016 22:04

Jimmy22, I had a similar fault to you just now. While watching a recording a message popped up in the middle of the screen.

Mine was "Recording Deleted" or something like that, then I am bounce back to library screen. All the while my recorded programme is still playing. pressing the exit screen gets me back to my programme

dwl I also have trouble with rewind. Typically I need to rewind after FF too far through the ads and into the next part of the programme. I then rewind to get back to the end of the ads. However, it tends to get itself out of sync, with the picture on the screen not reflecting how far it has rewound back. When I press play again I find I am way back in the ads again

Every so often after rewinding and pressing play, the sound is out of sync with the video, (not just a little bit, but whole scenes different) this is usually fixed by pressing rewind again then play again.

My better half has the same problem with the remote, the buttons are too small, and the box is quite unresponsive to the remote at times.

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#1542515 27-Apr-2016 06:00

after some advice i brought a Harmony 650 for $60 on special, and while it doesnt fix many of the other issues with the box it does have bigger buttons and does allow me to control all my stuff off one remote

tcassie

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#1542552 27-Apr-2016 08:16

Sam issues as DWL, Jimmy22 & saenglish:

When a recording completes and you are watching a recorded show (I only ever watch recorded so it may be on live as well) it drops you back to the library. The show carries on playing in the background however. You can click the back button and you are straight back to the playing show again so not a major, just an annoyance.

The rewind issues after going forwarding through ads is a bit of a pain. I have noticed that the left hand time on the on screen info does show it counting backwards, however it just stays on the same still image. As soon as you play again it jumps to where you have rewound to. It just means that you are not sure how far to rewind if you have gone past the start. The work around is that I have to slow down fast forwarding much earlier.

Great however that the lockup issues were resolved in this latest update, I finally cancelled Sky two weeks ago as a result of that major issue being resolved. So well done.

phoenixx

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#1542568 27-Apr-2016 09:09

phoenixx:

I have noticed an issue with the library. I was looking at the library in "series view" (blue button). A show which I know I recorded 2 episodes of, is only showing the second recorded episode (item count, right hand column showing "1". When I click on that show it opens the info in another window, still showing "1". Thinking I had made a mistake and not recorded the show, I watched the "missed show" on the "on demand" app. Then I went to have another look in the library and yes definitely only showing "1" episode of that particular show recorded.

I then notice that if I press the blue button again, which takes me to "episode view", a new window opens and sure enough both shows are there.

I checked again, with a different show that I know I had recorded 2 episodes of but that is only showing 1 under series view, sure enough when I switch to episode view, both episodes are there, Dish TV can you please explain what is going on here???

DISH TV could you please comment on my post above from 24th April and.............

Last night my box appeared to be inhabited by aliens: firstly, when watching a recorded show, when it ended and I pressed the stop button a window appeared that I have never seen before and I had no idea what to do, so pressed the back button to get out of there, tried the stop button again, didn't work, had to let the recording run to it's end when it stopped by itself.

Then I tried to watch another recorded show the screen was blank, tried fast forwarding, nothing. Tried the same with five other recorded shows, same result???

Went back to live tv which appeared to be running on slow motion, managed to correct that, can't remember how I did it, then went back in to try the previous blank shows and they were there???? What the heck is going on??????

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#1542570 27-Apr-2016 09:12

phoenixx:

phoenixx:

I have noticed an issue with the library. I was looking at the library in "series view" (blue button). A show which I know I recorded 2 episodes of, is only showing the second recorded episode (item count, right hand column showing "1". When I click on that show it opens the info in another window, still showing "1". Thinking I had made a mistake and not recorded the show, I watched the "missed show" on the "on demand" app. Then I went to have another look in the library and yes definitely only showing "1" episode of that particular show recorded.

I then notice that if I press the blue button again, which takes me to "episode view", a new window opens and sure enough both shows are there.

I checked again, with a different show that I know I had recorded 2 episodes of but that is only showing 1 under series view, sure enough when I switch to episode view, both episodes are there, Dish TV can you please explain what is going on here???

DISH TV could you please comment on my post above from 24th April and.............

Last night my box appeared to be inhabited by aliens: firstly, when watching a recorded show, when it ended and I pressed the stop button a window appeared that I have never seen before and I had no idea what to do, so pressed the back button to get out of there, tried the stop button again, didn't work, had to let the recording run to it's end when it stopped by itself.

Then I tried to watch another recorded show the screen was blank, tried fast forwarding, nothing. Tried the same with five other recorded shows, same result???

Went back to live tv which appeared to be running on slow motion, managed to correct that, can't remember how I did it, then went back in to try the previous blank shows and they were there???? What the heck is going on??????

Did you power cycle the device to see if that fixed it??

Regards,

Old3eyes

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#1542665 27-Apr-2016 11:26

phoenixx:

phoenixx:

I have noticed an issue with the library. I was looking at the library in "series view" (blue button). A show which I know I recorded 2 episodes of, is only showing the second recorded episode (item count, right hand column showing "1". When I click on that show it opens the info in another window, still showing "1". Thinking I had made a mistake and not recorded the show, I watched the "missed show" on the "on demand" app. Then I went to have another look in the library and yes definitely only showing "1" episode of that particular show recorded.

I then notice that if I press the blue button again, which takes me to "episode view", a new window opens and sure enough both shows are there.

I checked again, with a different show that I know I had recorded 2 episodes of but that is only showing 1 under series view, sure enough when I switch to episode view, both episodes are there, Dish TV can you please explain what is going on here???

DISH TV could you please comment on my post above from 24th April and.............

Last night my box appeared to be inhabited by aliens: firstly, when watching a recorded show, when it ended and I pressed the stop button a window appeared that I have never seen before and I had no idea what to do, so pressed the back button to get out of there, tried the stop button again, didn't work, had to let the recording run to it's end when it stopped by itself.

Then I tried to watch another recorded show the screen was blank, tried fast forwarding, nothing. Tried the same with five other recorded shows, same result???

Went back to live tv which appeared to be running on slow motion, managed to correct that, can't remember how I did it, then went back in to try the previous blank shows and they were there???? What the heck is going on??????

A power reboot, fully from the wall - try that first. If the issue continues, please complete a system reset, if the issue continues after that, please provide more details via private message so we can look into it.

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#1542931 27-Apr-2016 17:26

joshhill96:

phoenixx:

phoenixx:

I have noticed an issue with the library. I was looking at the library in "series view" (blue button). A show which I know I recorded 2 episodes of, is only showing the second recorded episode (item count, right hand column showing "1". When I click on that show it opens the info in another window, still showing "1". Thinking I had made a mistake and not recorded the show, I watched the "missed show" on the "on demand" app. Then I went to have another look in the library and yes definitely only showing "1" episode of that particular show recorded.

I then notice that if I press the blue button again, which takes me to "episode view", a new window opens and sure enough both shows are there.

I checked again, with a different show that I know I had recorded 2 episodes of but that is only showing 1 under series view, sure enough when I switch to episode view, both episodes are there, Dish TV can you please explain what is going on here???

DISH TV could you please comment on my post above from 24th April and.............

Last night my box appeared to be inhabited by aliens: firstly, when watching a recorded show, when it ended and I pressed the stop button a window appeared that I have never seen before and I had no idea what to do, so pressed the back button to get out of there, tried the stop button again, didn't work, had to let the recording run to it's end when it stopped by itself.

Then I tried to watch another recorded show the screen was blank, tried fast forwarding, nothing. Tried the same with five other recorded shows, same result???

Went back to live tv which appeared to be running on slow motion, managed to correct that, can't remember how I did it, then went back in to try the previous blank shows and they were there???? What the heck is going on??????

A power reboot, fully from the wall - try that first. If the issue continues, please complete a system reset, if the issue continues after that, please provide more details via private message so we can look into it.

Hello Josh,

Will you're suggestion address the "series view" issue (from my first post) or just the disappearing shows issue?

tcassie

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#1544609 30-Apr-2016 19:55

Have factory restored my unit and still getting the following issues:

Rewind gets out of synch (but was OK for a day or after reset)

Recorded shows not always showing under both views in library.

Still getting occasional lock ups as per before last update although not as bad.

When a recording finishes and you are watching a recorded show it drops back to library, pushing back button returns you to the recorded show playback.

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#1546686 4-May-2016 15:25

Thanks for everyone's replies to my query above (and all the other informative posts in this thread)

Think I'll wait for the next solution to come along, or at least wait and see if a firmware is released that addresses the major outstanding issues.

Audiophiles are such twits! They buy such pointless stuff: Gold plated cables, $2000 power cords. Idiots.

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