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Samsung HD - New EPG

  • 28-10-2009 08:56PM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭


    Got a mail today that my receiver is to be updated to the latest EPG in the coming days....

    Model Number - 0.7.070 for those who are interested


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  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,390 ✭✭✭mike2084


    Same here as regards email and same model number


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭Manc-Red


    Same here as regards email and same model number

    I'll be leaving her on stand-by for the next few nights


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,913 ✭✭✭Danno


    If this is the new sky epg, don't bother - i think it is useless. writing is too small on screen to read.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 502 ✭✭✭Finne1993


    Never got any mail to inform me of the new EPG arriving but my new EPG is after coming up on my Samsung 1.1.730.
    Have to say I don't like it and I watched the short on Anytime the other night explaining how to work it and even looking at that put me off it before I had it.
    Why they found the need to tinker around with it is beyond me, as far as I can see its more complicated than the old one, no numbering beside any of the menu options and this stacking of the programmes in the planner is not my cup of tea either among other things.
    I'll live with it anyway but without doubt for the less technically minded its going to be very hard to get used to it.
    Only addition worth talking about is ITV HD and even that is no use to me as I already have a freesat HD box.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭John mac


    Finne1993 wrote: »
    .
    , no numbering beside any of the menu options and this stacking of the programmes in the planner is not my cup of tea either among other things.

    Only addition worth talking about is ITV HD and even that is no use to me as I already have a freesat HD box.


    the numbers still work but you need to tinker to work out what does what. (services,9,5, gets other channels)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,460 ✭✭✭dmeehan


    i got the new epg too. only got the email from sky last night, and the new epg was available this morning


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭Shred


    I got a mail too, it's about feckin time. A mate of mine has a Thomson box and he got this about 6 months ago. Hopefully it'll be there when I get home as I do like the look of it. As an aside, ESPN went on the blink a few weeks ago and I was put through to customer support in Bangalore to confirm there was an outage. While I was on I asked the chap if he knew when the Samsung boxes where scheduled to receive the new EPG and explained that I was aware that the update was being distributed gradually by make/model. So he went off to consult with his supervisor & after a couple of minutes he came back to me with a response of "you have nothing to worry about sir, the update is automatic and one fine sunny morning you will wake up and it will be there waiting for you!". Nice:p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 57 ✭✭seanbirkhead


    The new epg was on my Samsung this morning.
    I used to have a Thomson and after the new epg came out it started to give me "No staellite signal being received" on all channels and this happened approximately every six to seven days. It needed a cold boot every time to get the signal back.
    Before I realised it was the new EPG causing the problem, Sky had replaced it with the Samsung as I was still under warranty (although the Samsung was a refurb). I have had no problems with the Samsung since it was replaced (in June) so I will be extremely upset if the Samsung starts giving problems now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 870 ✭✭✭corm500


    I got the epg this morning. I didn't get any email though or anything through the letterbox. Have to say I really like it. One thing though and it aint my imagination, there is a lessening of picture sharpness, particularily on channels like sky news where on screen graphics are a bit more blurry than before.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,460 ✭✭✭dmeehan


    The new epg was on my Samsung this morning.
    I used to have a Thomson and after the new epg came out it started to give me "No staellite signal being received" on all channels and this happened approximately every six to seven days. It needed a cold boot every time to get the signal back.
    Before I realised it was the new EPG causing the problem, Sky had replaced it with the Samsung as I was still under warranty (although the Samsung was a refurb). I have had no problems with the Samsung since it was replaced (in June) so I will be extremely upset if the Samsung starts giving problems now.
    i had that problem with my samsung with the old epg, so iam hoing that the new epg will rule out those problems.

    fingers crossed


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,242 ✭✭✭god's toy


    Yep got mine last night.
    Cant say I love it but I'll give it a chance to grow on me, it's not like we can send it back!


    Box has no lag and I'm very happy about that!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 923 ✭✭✭VERYinterested


    For the Series Link improvement alone the update is worth it. With the old EPG on two separate boxes, I used to spend a long time trying to get the machine to recognise it was part of a series. Now when you select a programme to record, it offers the option to 'record once/record series' and it is instant. The new EPG will grow on you, you'll like some things and you'll miss others.

    One tip I would offer is that you go in to the sound settings and put the volume up full before you receive the update. You cannot adjust the sound volume with the new EPG, so if it's too low, you're stuck with it..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,175 ✭✭✭Paulegend


    Danno wrote: »
    If this is the new sky epg, don't bother - i think it is useless. writing is too small on screen to read.

    get a bigger tv:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,162 ✭✭✭von Smallhausen


    Got it at home last night but didnt get a chance to check it out on regards to lagging and such


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 988 ✭✭✭manutd


    I don't have it yet.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 447 ✭✭mburke


    Issues so far:

    - Turned off front indicator light, saved the setting, start a program, press stop, start another program and low and behold the light is back on even though the settings on the box says it is off.

    - Watching a program, press backup to see other programs, press play on any of the other programs and when it starts playing it will not let me fast forward or rewind.

    - Is there a shortcut to other channels rather then go through loads of steps ?


    Can't believe that an update would be released without proper testing of all functionality.

    Samsung model 1.1.730, op system version 1.32B12

    Lets see if any other issues appear ?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭Manc-Red


    Got mine & its fine - not as quick as I thought it would be bit exceptional graphics & I love the mini-tv in the menu also.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,162 ✭✭✭von Smallhausen


    no problems on mine either


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭Manc-Red


    Just tuned in ITV Hd - Handy for the CL


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 988 ✭✭✭manutd


    Got mine last night, no problems yet, tuning in ITV HD now.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 502 ✭✭✭Finne1993


    Anyone else notice this problem?
    The interactive streams and text function on the SKY and BBC channels is'nt working since the new HD guide came out, i'm very annoyed at this as I used these regularly, I'm very pi**ed off to be honest.
    I rang SKY today and they told me there are "issues" with this function on the HD boxes, the operator had'nt a clue and it was the technical department I got through to!
    I asked is this an issue with all HD boxes with the new guide, even the boxes with the new guide since the start of the year and after a couple of attempts to fob me off with excerpts of the script she was reading in front of her she said it is and they're working on it.
    Why the hell did they meddle with something that worked fine and was'nt broken, I find the previous guide to be far more user friendly.

    Maybe this problem has been noted before and apologies if it has but I'd just like to know does anyone else have the same problem??


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    Interactive streams work for me. I have a Thomson box with new EPG


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,378 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    dmeehan wrote: »
    i got the new epg too. only got the email from sky last night, and the new epg was available this morning
    Same here.
    Have a Samsung box.
    Mail came through yesterday evening and EPG was available this morning.
    Havent had time to look at it yet so no thoughts as of yet.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭John mac


    mburke wrote: »

    - Is there a shortcut to other channels rather then go through loads of steps ?


    ?

    services,9,5 select


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭dragona


    Can anyone help me? Woke this morning and there it was, new EPG, but I no longer have anything in my Other Channels, no UTV or Channel 5,all gone, and where on earth is the ITV HD? Not in my HD channels.........


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭John mac


    check the stickies for tuning info..

    ITVHD isnt on the epg has to be added manually.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,297 ✭✭✭✭mdwexford


    Mine is jerky and slow to repond.
    Not liking it so far, guess it'll grow on me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭dragona


    John mac wrote: »
    check the stickies for tuning info..

    ITVHD isnt on the epg has to be added manually.

    Ah ok, thanks! I am finding it slow and jerky too - very jerky when fforwarding at any speed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 57 ✭✭seanbirkhead


    dragona wrote: »
    Can anyone help me? Woke this morning and there it was, new EPG, but I no longer have anything in my Other Channels, no UTV or Channel 5,all gone, and where on earth is the ITV HD? Not in my HD channels.........

    I found that when I went to "other channels" nothing was displayed but if I then pressed "select" the list of channels I had previously tuned before the epg update would then appear.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5 church warden


    My Samsung box had the EPG update last weekend - next day it suddenly blue screened and said "no satellite signal being received" even though the signal monitors were saying everything was fine.

    Tried a reboot, even leaving it unplugged overnight then rebooting, but no joy.

    The Sky engineer arrived today and said there was a full signal strength but he could not get it the box to work and concluded the update had scrambled the processing software somehow. He replaced it with a Pace HD box. Everything was fine until he did a forced firmware upgrade and, low and behold, it messaged "no satellite signal being received". Try as he might he could not get it to work.

    He has left me with an Amstrad HD box, but refused to force the upgrade because he had no boxes left if it "bricked" that one. So, I fear an overnight upgrade.:(


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