Since the great innovation of being able to actually use the epg on my
talking goodmans box, I have recently encountered some funny goings on. The
question is, is this a normal feature or a problem...
Basically, if you choose to view the epg, you can move through the stations
with the arrow keys and through the times with the other directions. However
sometimes, if a proggy has no information available, as Really dide last
night, the next channel seems to jump to an epg for several days forward,
rather than return to the correct day and time. I've yet to be able to
recover from this without turning the box off and on again and avoiding said
channel with no info.
It seems not to matter if I use list or table view, the same thing happens.
Brian

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Brian Gaff wrote:

The question is, is this a normal feature or a problem...

Brian, this sounds like a bug in the Goodmans' software to me. I've
used Pace, Digifusion and three different Humax boxes, and none of
those show the odd behaviour that you describe.

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SteveT

Well the software seems to be up to version 6, one would have thought they
might have cracked it by now!

Other funnies are that it can lose the info and say there is no info, when
there was a few minutes back, going down a proggy then up again seems to fix
it.

I suspect the reading software is not waitint for a buffer to fill sometimes
before launching into, the no info routine.

Other issues, are the same as on other boxes with AD on in that often AD
can vanish in the middle and need to have the station reselected, or cut off
the end of the AD sometimes, though I fear this is the broadcasters fault
quite often. Poor monitoring I'd suggest.
There is definitely a hardware iissue in the Goodmans as well. It seems not
to pass through the sound of a dvd properly when its used that way. It
removes a lot of bass and sounds a bit compressed. Its as if there is some
kind of mismatch.
The problem is these days that products have such short lives that they
shove them out and before they are fixed they get replaced!
Being in the situation I am, I only have the choice of the one box if I want
the epg, and talking menus.
I'd say this feature would be relatively simple to add to most boxes but
the cost cutting makes them not bother.
Brian

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"Steve Thackery" wrote in message
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Brian Gaff wrote:

The question is, is this a normal feature or a problem...

Brian, this sounds like a bug in the Goodmans' software to me. I've used
Pace, Digifusion and three different Humax boxes, and none of those show
the odd behaviour that you describe.

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SteveT