Jag trodde att fwuppdateringen av hd-boxen skulle fixa dess problem, men det blev bara värre... så nu återstår bara pvrboxen som ett alternativ. Jag vet att det kom en uppdatering till den för några vecker sedan också och att folk verkar tycka den är ok nu.
Kan ni lista alla negativa saker med bilden och boxen i övrigt ni kan komma på, så kan man ta ställning till om det är ens värt att beställa denna boxen... tack på förhand!
Pelle1, boxen fungerar utmärkt, så det är helt klart värt att beställa den.
Ursäkta alla att jag drar ett mastodontinlägg igen nedan, men pelle1 efterfrågar just detta.
Här är min lista på sådant som fortfarande buggar samt önskemål om förbättringar.
Om ni hittar fel i listan, vänligen meddela detta så att jag kan uppdatera den.
Om ni har andra synpunkter, buggrapporter eller önskemål kan även de adderas.
Tyvärr har jag ännu inte fått tag på någon kontaktperson att skicka listan till, och ComHems kundservice har inte svarat på min förfrågan.
Volume adjustments per channel
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Priority: Very high
Some channels send their audio in much lower or higher volume than the others. Therefore it would be nice to be able to boost or lower the volume on a per channel basis.
Recommendation:
When pressing the OK button you see the channel list. Add a new function (using the Yellow button?) to adjust the volume for the selected channel.
Or perhaps this adjustment is better placed in the Soundtrack-menu... Press Green (Alt) to see the menu. Add the new function here (using the Yellow button?).
(the adjustment should be measured in percent, so that the current volume can be boosted or lowered equally no matter if you're listening at a low volume or high.)
(from a technical perspective, the box need to reserve like the maximum 10% of the main volume for possible adjustments. When the main volume is set to 100, the box should only deliver 90% of its signal power to the receiver/amplifier/TV.
If the user switches to a channel that is set to boost the signal with e.g. 30% and the main volume is set to 100, the signal to the receiver should be 93% of maximum capacity.)
Some channels (like the Swedish SVT1 and SVT2) broadcast with much lower volume than e.g. VH-1 (a music channel) do. The difference is even bigger when using Dolby Digital, so when switching from SVT to VH-1, the music literally *booms* out the speakers.
Temporarily stop direct recording
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Priority: Medium
When direct recording to the HDD is enabled in the settings, it would be nice to be able to temporarily stop this for the current channel, (like pressing the Stop (live) button).
When switching channel or pressing Timeshift, the instant recording is again resumed.
(if I start watching a DVD movie or walk away for an hour but don't feel like shutting off the PVR, it would be nice to simply press Stop to stop the HDD activity)
Pressing Stop (live) already has two actions in regular watching mode (going to live from timeshift, displaying the record status menu if some recordings are present). Adding a third function might make inexperienced users confused.
But if you think about it, it's quite clearly defined: If user is in live mode and there are no regular recordings in the background, pressing stop will disable instant recording on current channel.
Mp3 player
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Priority: Some are Very High, others Low
- Important!: possibility to select one or several directories to play
- Important!: possibility to play mp3's recursively (subfolders)
- possibility to fast forward in mp3 songs
- display bitrate and more stats of the *playing* mp3
- display more stats about *selected* mp3's, like bitrate, filesize, date...
- ...oh, and the kids always like Visual effects based on the music... Maybe you could steal some from Winamp? :-)
Mp3 file cache
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Priority: Very High
There should be some kind of caching of mp3 info so that it doesn't have to be updated every time you switch to a new directory.
I have a directory with 600 mp3 files. If I exit the mp3 player in this working directory, the next time the player is activated, it will take a *long* time to startup since it first must update the information about the 600 files.
It is very frustrating that the information have to be updated over and over again even though the filesystem hasn't changed.
The remote control
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Priority: Very high
- like lots of other users, I have problems with the remote. It feels like 5% of all button presses are not received. When trying to rename a file, this is painfully obvious.
- since this happen randomly, it gets annoying - I try to switch channel, nothing happen, I try again, it works. I try to rewind a bit in timeshift mode, nothing happen, I try again and now it works.
- This situation is completely resolved if you switch to a programmable/universal remote.
- some people say that using other remotes (like TV, receiver, etc) sometimes put the Samsung box in an unresponsive mode. When this happens, a reboot of the box is neccesary.
I guess there's no way to fix this with a software upgrade - the problem is probably within the remote itself.
Store settings
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Priority: Medium
When the software in the PVR is upgraded, all user settings are wiped. This is annoying, and will become even more so the more settings and adjustments the user has made.
Therefore, there should be a backup of the settings (like the Favourite channel lists, the Volume adjustments per channel, custom channel names, etc) on the harddrive (and/or in the flash-memory).
This is also very useful if a software upgrade set all values to factory defaults, such as the Video Out settings, and you're connected via a Component signal, then you have a moment 22. You need to see the picture to modify the settings, but the settings need to be set to Component in order to see any picture...
Also add a menu choice to *manually* backup the current settings as well as restore them whenever needed.
Intensity of the LCD on the front panel
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Priority: Medium
It would be nice if the LCD had different intensity levels
- Intensity at activity: off | low | medium | high
- Timeout: 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 seconds and so on...
- Intensity after timeout: off | low | medium | high
- Text to show after timeout: channel or mp3 title | time | date
Show some info (channel name, mp3 title, etc) for NN seconds using the first intensity, wait for NN seconds and then show the name, title, time or date with the second intensity.
Example: When switching channel, the LCD highlights the channel name for NN seconds and then dim down a bit (or even put out entirely).
(also when pressing the Info button, the LCD could highligt the name for NN seconds)
(when *manually* switching to a new mp3, the LCD could highlight, otherwise it should *not* be highlighted during normal mp3 play)
After the timeout, you can continue to show the channel name, or you can show the current time or date instead.
Blinking/flashing LCD on the front panel
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Priority: Medium
Flashing and movements attract the focus of the human eye. This is annoying when you try to watch a movie but the eyes keep trying to move down to the scrolling channel name or flashing HDD led. Therefore allow the user to disable these:
- scrolling of text in LCD:
on: Like tody, scroll the name/title over and over again
once: scroll to the end of the name and then scroll backwards to the beginning and stop, then keep showing the first part of the channel name or mp3 title (or replace with time or date if so selected, see above).
off: only show the first part of the name, no scrolling
- indicate HDD activity: on|off
Channel change in PiP mode
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Priority: High
This is a bug.
In PiP mode, the small window's channel changes don't follow the currently active channel list (usually my Favourite list #1).
While the main window uses my Favourite list, the PiP window use the full list (where every other channel is blocked since I don't pay for it)
Naturally, the PiP window should follow the same channel list as the main window.
Display correct channel name in OSD
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Priority: High
This is a bug.
When switching channel, you first get to see the information about the *current* channel for a second or so before it is replaced with the information for the new channel.
When I press a button, I assume the OSD will display the name of the *selected* channel, not the current one. Currently I always think I pressed the wrong button.
OSD message timeout
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Priority: Medium
Today, the timeout for OSD messages can be set to a few static values, where 3 seconds is the shortest. This is too long.
Allow for more granular stepping values, like: 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 seconds and so on...
Persistent OSD message
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Priority: Medium
Many OSD messages are automatically removed after the timeout (as they should).
However, when pressing the Info button, the user usually wants to read the information, but the message is closed too soon.
Recommendation:
- if the Info button is pressed again, make the message persistent. Indicate this by adding a line like "Press Exit or Return to close. Press Info for details or statistics".
Another press on the Info button give the details for the current show and yet another press give the statistics page as usual (both pages are persistent).
Ejected from watching a chase-view video
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Priority: Medium.
This is a bug.
(This is a request from another user, I haven't verified this myself)
When watching a recorded video at the same time it is being recorded, you're being "kicked out" of the movie and put into Live mode when the recording end.
Example:
You have a scheduled recording between 21:00-22:00.
You start watching the video at 21:12.
At 22:00 (48 minutes in, with 12 minutes left), the video is stopped and you are put into Live mode.
You manually have to go back to the video to see the last 12 minutes.
Please remove this annoying go-live bug and let the user continue watching the video to the end.
More than 16 tasks
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Priority: High
Why is there a maximum limit of only 16 scheduled recordings? If away on holidays you might need more...
Move command in the Library
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Priority: Medium
I'm missing the 'move' command in the different Library menues. It feels silly you have to copy files (mp3's in this case) from one place to another and then manually delete the originals. This is the year 2008... :-)
Translation of warnings, etc
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Priority: Low
In the library, when deleting files, all menu choices are written in Swedish, but suddenly you see English text ("All files in selected folder will be deleted", "Deleting", etc).
In several other places you can see English words instead of Swedish, or even 'swenglish' words (like "pauserad").
Radio
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Priority: Low
The old ComHem Sagem box had two radio modes. One where you could just change radio channel, and one that was started as an "application" from the Navigator-menu. I think it was called "Music choice".
The second one was much nicer since it showed information about what was playing (artist, title, album) etc.
It would ofcourse be nice if the Samsung box display this information on the screen instead of the boring static blue picture of a note.
...oh, and the kids always like Visual effects based on the music... Maybe you could steal some from Winamp? :-)
Pictures
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Priority: High
This is a bug.
- The aspect ratio of displayed pictures on my 4:3 TV is wrong. People look fat (the image is squeezed from the top and bottom)
- other people have stated that the aspect ratio is completely wrong in 16:9 as well (no matter if you use Letterbox or other settings)
- the pictures aren't automatically rotated based on the EXIF-information. This is the year 2008, image viewers should be able to do this...
- I didn't find any way to zoom into the picture (the up and down arrows rotate the picture)
- there are no information on the screen (or in the manual) regarding what different buttons do (like up/down = rotate)
Additional info/requests from other users:
The following things need to be done to improve the picture quality when watching photos:
- Insert the picture in YCbCr color space into the video layer, rather than into the OSD layer as is currently done (the 16-bit ARGB color space causes posterization)
- Fix the scaling (the current method causes severe aliasing when the scaling does not produce an even multiple or fraction of the original resolution)
- Take the selected screen aspect ratio into account
- Take the non-square pixel ratio in the video output into account (it's currently treated as if the pixels were square)
- Allow the viewer to toggle between overscan and underscan of the picture
New services found
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Priority: Medium
Every once in a while, the box show a status page with "New services found". The problem is that it only show the number of changes since before.
When I see that 1 new service has been added, I immediately need to know what it is. :-) Isn't it possible to actually *list* the changes instead of just counting the differences?
Faster FastForward
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Priority: Low
Why stop at x16?
Correct time
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The internal clock of many boxes drift a few seconds each day.
Recommendation: Update the clock at periodic intervals (at least twice a day) or continously via e.g. the text tv feed.
Copy/move to USB
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Priority: Very Low
It would be nice to be able to copy a recorded video to an USB disk.
People with VCRs often save their tapes with movies and series for years or even decades. With only a 160 GB HDD this will be tricky.
Therefore it would be nice with an option to copy or move existing material to an external USB disk. Still, you need to play them using the Samsung box since the data is still stored in its native form, just on an external disk.
Export to USB
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Priority: Very Low or Very High
(if there's no law prohibiting this kind of export, then the priority is escalated to VERY HIGH)
Sometimes a friend call me, asking me to tape this evening's episode of his favourite series, which he forgot. With a VCR this is no problem, I can give him the tape the next day.
With the PVR this is a problem. I have no means of giving him a copy.
It would be nice with an option to export a recording, to a format that are commonly used (like Xvid, mpeg4, ac3, mp3), and the possibility to move these on to an external USB disk.
I guess this is not possible due to laws and regulations though. :-(
The user manual
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Priority: High
Is there an updated manual to download somewhere? The one that came with the box is utterly useless. It is not even relevant any more with all the new changes in the software.
In fact, it's even doing Samsung a disservice right now. Think of a potential PVR buyer... He takes a look at the technical specification in the Samsung manual. It says *no* s-video and *no* component video, so he buys some other box instead. Sad, since this box *do* support these formats nowdays.
For every given function, the manual only states "this where you handle <function>". All the information the user REALLY need is missing, like what is the function for, what are good default values, what happen when you tweak them? Example:
* On the initial system setup page, there are things like Frequency and Symbol speed. What is Symbol speed and what happen if I change it? I have no idea.
* How should the user know what SRS is and if it should be enabled? Should it be enabled even if Dolby Digital is already enabled? Will enabling SRS use any CPU resources - i.e. if the user don't need it, should it be disabled?
* How should the user know the difference between TXT and VBI?
...etc, etc, etc. Lots of users have complained about the uselessness of the manual.
* Make sure to include new features such as automatic power on, channel change, etc, currently not explained.
Also, hints and tips are missing. Examples:
* Hold the PiP button for two seconds to be able to move and resize the PiP window
* To browse the EPG without changing channel in the background, first press Left arrow (for instant recording mode) or enter timeshift mode. Personally, I always use this mode. I think it is a bad default to switch channels while browsing the EPG.
* To add the already Instantly recorded timeshift buffer to a new recording, go to Timeshift mode and press Rec.
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