Hi
Yes the recording light does on, I've not noticed it recording where it hasn't.
The manufacturing is probably okay. If will not be the case you have a decent box, more the case you have been fortunate not to have fallen over any of the software bugs.
The majority of the problems are software issues. The trouble is, a lot of these are probably quite obscure problems, for example the recording light might fail only after the user has done a particular combination of things, so you get one person that always has the problem and the rest of us do not. It isn't because their box is faulty, it will be because they are doing a combination of things no one else is and triggering the bug. Also things like memory leaks take a time before they trigger a crash, so if you just jump into the EPG, set a few recordings then come out and standby, you don't have chance for the bug to surface. If you have had the box on for a few hours and have been scrolling back and forth around the EPG and jumping in out of menus, then you might get the box crashing completely, which happened to me.
This is why Beta testing typically involves a lot of people, in order to trap these kind of things, I suspect given the rush to the market and delays in manufacturing they haven't had time to do this, and so we are doing it. Although that doesn't explain the lack of functionality from Pace who boast they are the "worlds number one".
Regards
Phil
Hi Phil just tried standby recording and the red rec light is on and the red standby light is on. I have just turned receiver on and the recording has started. perhaps I have got lucky and got a half decent box. No disrespect to Ukraine where my box was made does yours come from there too
Yes the recording light does on, I've not noticed it recording where it hasn't.
The manufacturing is probably okay. If will not be the case you have a decent box, more the case you have been fortunate not to have fallen over any of the software bugs.
The majority of the problems are software issues. The trouble is, a lot of these are probably quite obscure problems, for example the recording light might fail only after the user has done a particular combination of things, so you get one person that always has the problem and the rest of us do not. It isn't because their box is faulty, it will be because they are doing a combination of things no one else is and triggering the bug. Also things like memory leaks take a time before they trigger a crash, so if you just jump into the EPG, set a few recordings then come out and standby, you don't have chance for the bug to surface. If you have had the box on for a few hours and have been scrolling back and forth around the EPG and jumping in out of menus, then you might get the box crashing completely, which happened to me.
This is why Beta testing typically involves a lot of people, in order to trap these kind of things, I suspect given the rush to the market and delays in manufacturing they haven't had time to do this, and so we are doing it. Although that doesn't explain the lack of functionality from Pace who boast they are the "worlds number one".
Regards
Phil
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